Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension
A Guide for Educators
2nd Edition
Published on 25. January 2023
379 pages
978-1-4625-5152-1 (ISBN)
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K-12 classroom teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, and special educators; school psychologists; teacher educators and graduate students; and literacy researchers. Serves as a supplementary text in graduate-level courses.
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04/2023
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Kelly B. Cartwright, PhD, is the Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early Child Literacy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she directs the Reading, Executive function, and Development Lab (READ Lab) and serves as Co-Coordinator for the PhD concentration in Literacy Research, Policy, and Practice and on the Executive Board for the Mebane Early Literacy Center. Her research focuses on the development of skilled reading comprehension and the neurocognitive and affective factors that underlie comprehension processes and difficulties from preschool through adulthood. Dr. Cartwright regularly works with teachers in schools throughout the United States to better understand and improve comprehension instruction for striving readers, and these experiences inform her research.
Content
Foreword, Nell K. Duke
Preface
Prologue: Linking the New with the Old: How Are Familiar Reading Skills and Strategies Related to Executive Skills?
1. Executive Skills: What Are They, and Why Are They Important for Developing Thinking Readers?
2. Plans and Goals: Getting Ready to Read
3. Organization: Why Text and Reader Organization Matter
4. Cognitive Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Aspects of Reading
5. Working Memory: Holding and Linking Ideas in Mind While Reading
6. Inhibition and Impulse Control: Resisting Distractions to Support Comprehension
7. Social Understanding: The Importance of Mind Reading for Reading Comprehension
8. Executive Skills, Word Recognition, and Dyslexia: Cracking the Code Is Complicated, Too
Appendix A: Rubric for Assessing Executive Skills in Observations of Your Students' Reading Behavior
Appendix B: List of Games That Require Behaviors Related to the Executive Skills Described in This Book
Appendix C: List of Executive Skill-Based Intervention Studies That Resulted in Improvements in Reading
Children's Literature Cited
References
Index
Preface
Prologue: Linking the New with the Old: How Are Familiar Reading Skills and Strategies Related to Executive Skills?
1. Executive Skills: What Are They, and Why Are They Important for Developing Thinking Readers?
2. Plans and Goals: Getting Ready to Read
3. Organization: Why Text and Reader Organization Matter
4. Cognitive Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Aspects of Reading
5. Working Memory: Holding and Linking Ideas in Mind While Reading
6. Inhibition and Impulse Control: Resisting Distractions to Support Comprehension
7. Social Understanding: The Importance of Mind Reading for Reading Comprehension
8. Executive Skills, Word Recognition, and Dyslexia: Cracking the Code Is Complicated, Too
Appendix A: Rubric for Assessing Executive Skills in Observations of Your Students' Reading Behavior
Appendix B: List of Games That Require Behaviors Related to the Executive Skills Described in This Book
Appendix C: List of Executive Skill-Based Intervention Studies That Resulted in Improvements in Reading
Children's Literature Cited
References
Index
