Overview
- Highlights theory and empirical research relevant to English reading comprehension in middle and high schools
- Presents chapters on reading comprehension in various content areas and populations such as English Language Learners and special needs students
- Contributions offer in-depth insights by leading researchers in the field
Part of the book series: Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 10)
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Keywords
- Academic vocabulary instruction
- Adolescent English language learners
- Advanced literacy skills
- ELL
- English as a medium of instruction
- English language arts classes
- English language learners in special education
- High stakes academic testing
- Literacy in mathematics
- Model for development of reading comprehension
- Reading comprehension tests
- Reading in middle and high school
- Science discourse in English
- cognitive models of reading
- literacy instruction
- reading comprehension assessment
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Davide Comoretto graduated in Physics in 1988. In 1993 He obtained the PhD in Chemical Sciences and was enrolled as Research Scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Genoa (I) where is now Associated Professor of Industrial Chemistry.
His interest is devoted to the investigation of the optical anisotropy of highly oriented conjugated polymers as well as to the photophysics of polyconjugated materials. He addressed the relations between the nature of photoexcitations and the polymer supramolecular structure.
He is currently working on organic & hybrid photonic crystals such as artificial opals, polymer DBR, and microcavities. His goal is to dope such photonic crystals with photo-active materials or to engineer structural defects in order to modulate the photonic crystal optical response.
He is involved in several national and international research projects and He collaborates with different companies for the technological exploitation of conjugated polymers and photonic crystals in the fields of photovoltaics, sensing and photonics. He is co-author of more than 130 papers published on refereed international journals or books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students
Editors: Kristi L. Santi, Deborah K. Reed
Series Title: Literacy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14735-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14734-5Published: 25 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38632-4Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14735-2Published: 04 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2214-000X
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 197
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literacy, Educational Psychology, Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Studies