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Tables of Contents for Literacy in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgments
ix
Further Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: The Landscape of Literacy in Seven Portraits
xiii
List of Contributors
xxxi
Literacy in America
1
700
Volume 1: A--M
Ability Grouping
1
4
Accountability and Testing
5
3
Active Listening
8
2
Activity Theory
10
3
Adolescent Literacy
13
2
Adolescent Literature
15
4
Adult Literacy
19
3
Adult Literacy Programs
22
3
Adult Literacy Testing
25
4
American Reading Forum
29
1
Artists' Books
29
1
Assessment Interviews
30
1
Assessment Interviews for Parents and Teachers
31
2
At-Risk Students
33
3
Authentic Assessment
36
4
Automaticity and Reading Fluency
40
3
Balanced Literacy Instruction
43
2
Basal Readers
45
3
Bibliotherapy
48
1
Bilingual Education
49
3
Bilingualism
52
5
Biliteracy
57
3
Book Clubs
60
3
Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking
63
1
Children's Literature
64
2
Classroom Writing Assessment
66
6
Cloze Procedure
72
1
College Literacy and Learning
73
1
College Reading and Learning Association
74
1
College Reading Association
75
1
Comics
76
1
Commercial Reading Programs
77
3
Community Literacy
80
2
Comparative Reading
82
3
Comprehension Strategies
85
3
Computer-Assisted Instruction
88
2
Concept Instruction with Text
90
3
Conceptual Change Learning and Texts
93
4
Considerate Text
97
2
Constructivism
99
2
Content-Area Literacy
101
3
Context in Literacy
104
3
Cooperative Learning
107
1
Critical Literacy
108
3
Critical Media Literacy
111
2
Critical Reading
113
2
Criticisms of Reader Response
115
3
Critique of the National Reading Panel Report
118
3
Deaf Students and Literacy
121
2
Delayed Readers
123
4
Developmental and College Reading
127
4
Dialogic Responsiveness
131
1
Dialogue Journals
132
1
Directed Reading Activity and Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
133
2
Discourse Analysis
135
5
Discursive Theory
140
3
Discussion
143
3
The Discussion Web
146
1
Distance Learning
147
3
Diversity
150
4
Dynamic Assessment
154
1
Dyslexia
155
2
Early Literacy
157
3
Early Literacy Assessment
160
5
Early Literacy Software
165
2
Ebonics
167
1
Ecological Literacy
168
2
Economics of Literacy Development
170
3
Effective Schools and Teachers
173
2
Elders and Literacy
175
2
Electronic Jigsaw
177
1
English as a Second Language (ESL) Literacy Evaluation and Assessment
178
3
English Journal
181
1
The Even Start Family Literacy Program
182
1
Eye Movements
183
2
Family Literacy
185
2
Feminist Post-Structuralism
187
4
Flexibility
191
1
Fluency
191
4
Gender and Discussion
195
4
Gender and Post-Typographical Text
199
2
Gender and Reading
201
4
Gender and Writing
205
3
Graffiti
208
4
Graphic Aids
212
1
Graphic Organizers
213
2
Group Reading Inventories
215
2
The Handbook of Reading Research
217
1
The Head Start Program
218
1
Heritage-Language Development
219
4
High-Stakes Assessment
223
1
History of Reading Instruction
224
7
History of the Book
231
2
Hypertext
233
6
Independent Reading
239
5
Individualized Reading
244
3
Informal Reading Inventory
247
2
Inquiry-Based Instruction
249
2
Instant Messaging
251
3
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy
254
3
International Reading Association
257
1
Intertextuality
258
1
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
259
1
Journal of Literacy Research
260
1
Junior Great Books
260
3
Kidwatching and Classroom Evaluation
263
3
Kinesthetic Methods
266
1
KWL and KWL+
267
6
Language Acquisition
273
3
Language Arts
276
1
Language Arts Instruction
277
4
Language Attitudes
281
6
Language Experience Approach
287
3
Laubach Literacy
290
1
Learning Centers
291
2
Learning with Texts
293
5
Linguistic Approaches to Reading Instruction
298
1
Listservs in Literacy
299
4
Literacy and Culture
303
5
Literacy Autobiography
308
2
Literacy Definitions
310
3
The Literacy Dictionary
313
2
Literacy in Informal Settings
315
3
Literacy in Play
318
5
Literacy Labs
323
3
Literacy Motivation
326
4
Literacy Volunteers of America
330
1
Literature Circles
330
4
Literature-Based Instruction
334
5
Mainstreaming
339
1
Media Literacy
340
4
Mental Modeling
344
1
Metacognition
345
3
Middle-School Literacy
348
3
Minimum-Competency Testing
351
1
Miscue Analysis
352
4
Models of the Reading Process
356
8
Multicultural Literacy
364
4
Multicultural Literature
368
6
Multimedia
374
2
Multiple Literacies
376
4
Multiple Texts
380
5
Volume 2: N--Z
Narrative and Expository Text
385
3
Narrative Text
388
4
National Assessment of Educational Progress
392
3
National Commission on Reading
395
2
National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy
397
1
National Council of Teachers of English
398
1
National Institute for Literacy
399
1
National Reading Conference
400
1
National Reading Conference Yearbook
400
1
National Reading Panel
401
3
The National Right to Read Foundation
404
3
Oral Language
407
4
Oral Language Development
411
4
Oral Reading
415
4
Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring
419
1
Peer Discussion
420
5
Peer Status and Literacy Development
425
3
Phonics Instruction
428
3
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
431
3
Policy Issues in Testing
434
3
The Political Nature of Literacy
437
3
Popular Culture
440
3
Portfolios
443
2
Post-Structuralism and Structuralism
445
3
Post-Typographic
448
2
Predictable Books
450
3
Prior Knowledge and Misconceptions
453
3
Prior-Knowledge Assessment
456
3
Process Writing
459
2
Programmed Instruction
461
1
Psycholinguistics
462
2
Public Opinion and Literacy
464
5
Questioning
469
6
The RAND Reading Study Group
475
1
Rauding Theory
476
4
Readability
480
6
Read-Alouds
486
2
Reader Response
488
5
Readers Theatre
493
2
The Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties
495
1
Reading Assessment
495
6
Reading-Attitude Measures
501
1
Reading Clinics
502
4
Reading-Comprehension Instruction
506
2
Reading-Comprehension Processes
508
7
Reading Diagnosis
515
5
Reading Excellence Act
520
1
Reading Hall of Fame
521
1
Reading-Interest Inventories
522
1
Reading Is Fundamental
523
2
Reading Online
525
1
Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly
526
1
Reading Readiness
526
1
Reading Recovery
527
3
Reading Research and Instruction
530
1
Reading Research Quarterly
530
1
Reading Specialists
531
2
The Reading Teacher
533
1
Reading Today
534
1
Reading-Writing Relationships
534
1
Reciprocal Teaching
535
4
Recreational Reading
539
2
Redundancy
541
1
Refutational Texts
542
3
Remediation
545
3
Repeated Readings
548
3
Research in the Teaching of English
551
1
Resistant Reading
552
1
Round-Robin Oral Reading
553
2
Scaffolded Literacy Instruction
555
1
Schema Theory
556
2
Schema Theory Criticisms
558
4
Secondary-School Reading Programs
562
4
Semantic Feature Analysis
566
6
Semantic Mapping
572
8
Semiotics
580
1
Sight Words
581
2
Silent Reading
583
1
Social Constructivism
584
5
Social Justice and Literacies
589
6
Social Nature of Literacy
595
4
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
599
1
Sociolinguistics and Literacy
599
4
Software for Older Readers
603
2
Speed Reading
605
1
Spelling
606
4
Standardized Test Score Decline
610
3
Standardized Test Score Interpretation
613
2
Standardized Testing
615
2
Standards
617
2
Story Grammar
619
3
Storytelling
622
4
Structural Analysis
626
2
Study Guides
628
3
Study Skills and Strategies
631
1
Subjectivity
632
7
Teacher Education in Literacy
639
4
Teacher Research in Literacy
643
4
Television and Reading
647
3
Test Preparation
650
1
Textbooks
651
2
Thematic Organizers
653
2
Think-Alouds
655
1
Title I
656
1
Trade Books
657
4
Transactional Theory
661
2
Transmission Instruction
663
2
Visual Literacy
665
2
Vocabulary Instruction
667
6
Whole Language and Whole-Language Assessment
673
4
Whole Language Umbrella
677
1
Word Recognition
678
4
Workplace Literacy
682
4
Writing across the Curriculum
686
2
Writing Assessment
688
5
Writing Assessment in Large-Scale Contexts
693
6
Zines
699
2
List of Acronyms
701
4
Bibliography
705
46
Index
751
28
About the Editor
779