Instructional strategies for improving students' learning : focus on early reading and mathematics

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators and researchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology, psychology, and re...

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Other Authors Carlson, Jerry S. (Editor), Levin, Joel R. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
SeriesPsychological perspectives on contemporary educational issues.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615575
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-631-5
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Introduction
  • Section I. Reading instructional strategies
  • Chapter 1. Proven and promising reading instruction: What we know and what works / Cathy Collins Block
  • Chapter 2. Proven and promising: The eye of the beholder? / Rollanda Estby O'Connor
  • Chapter 3. Reflections on what's proven and where the promise lies / Margaret G. McKeown
  • Chapter 4. Good intentions and unexpected consequences: The case of reading fluency / James F. Baumann
  • Chapter 5. Understanding reading research from different sociocultural historical contexts / Virginia W. Berninger
  • Chapter 6. From proven and promising reading instruction to paving new paths: Widening highways, crossing borders, and repairing potholes / Cathy Collins Block
  • Section II. Mathematics instructional strategies
  • Chapter 7. Learning and teaching early and elementary mathematics / Douglas H. Clements and Julie Sarama
  • Chapter 8. Comments on learning and teaching early and elementary mathematics / Arthur J. Baroody, David J. Purpura, and Erin E. Reid
  • Chapter 9. The common core mathematics standards as supports for learning and teaching early and elementary mathematics / Karen C. Fuson
  • Chapter 10. You can't play 20 questions with mathematics teaching and learning, and win / James W. Stigler and Belinda J. Thompson
  • Chapter 11. Learning trajectories through a sociocultural lens / Anita A. Wager and Thomas P. Carpenter
  • Chapter 12. Walking the same broad path (with side trips): Response to comments / Julie Sarama and Douglas H. Clements
  • About the editors.