Harry Singer – författare

Originally published in 1989 (the second edition), Reading and Learning from Text tackles challenges in reading instruction by delivering research-based solutions for teaching students to read and learn effectively from text across all content areas. The authors identify key problems facing educators: evolving school environments, teacher attitudes toward reading instruction, and diverse student abilities in text comprehension.The book presents three powerful solutions: foundational knowledge of reading theories and research, a proven instructional model for developing text-learning skills, and a complete blueprint for schoolwide implementation. It encompasses single-text and multiple-text strategies, content-specific applications for English, social studies, science, and mathematics, plus integrated approaches to discussion, writing, and listening skills.The authors outline a systematic process that transforms students into independent learners, progressing from teacher-directed instruction to student internalization of strategies. Special emphasis is placed on developing schoolwide programs under administrative leadership, including in-service training components that ensure all teachers can effectively support text-based learning across disciplines. This volume serves as an essential resource for students and researchers of education.

In the late 1970s, reading research had become a true interdisciplinary endeavour with flavours of anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, educational psychology, linguistics, neuroscience and instructional technology. Given appropriate integration, results from these diverse perspectives can enhance our understanding of reading behaviour tremendously, both in its acquisition and in its skilled functioning. Thus, the enthusiasm for such interdisciplinary interaction had been quite intense for some time. In the years before publication, the National Reading Conference had been doing everything possible to accelerate this interaction. Originally published in 1981, the chapters in this book are the fruits of that effort.The research focuses on specifying skills in identifying alphabetical elements and the rules that govern their combination, on constructing models that characterize the recognition of individual words and the interpretation of texts, and on discovering what factors are responsible for blocking the normal acquisition process in many children. Chapters 2 to 12 of this book reflect these changing foci. They are nevertheless sandwiched by two chapters that deal with the historical background and future outlook of reading instruction.