Language and Literacy Beyond Decoding

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Successful reading comprehension requires readers to draw on a range of language comprehension abilities alongside decoding. This timely teacher reference and text explains how language comprehension develops throughout grades PreK-6 and presents evidence-based instructional strategies. The volume reviews innovative ways to conduct content-rich classroom conversations, deliver strategy and text structure instruction, target motivational aspects of comprehension, use assessment to guide comprehension-focused instruction, and more. Ways to support language and reading comprehension with multilingual and multidialectal learners are considered in depth. Ideal for professional learning within a science-of-reading perspective, each chapter provides guiding questions, research reviews, classroom applications, and reflection questions.

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1. From Language to Literacy: The Critical Role of Language Comprehension in Reading Comprehension, Rebecca D. Silverman & Kristin Keane
2. Content-Rich Classroom Conversations That Improve Language Comprehension in the Early Grades, Sonia Q. Cabell, C. J. Espittia, & Tricia A. Zucker
3. Gaps and Opportunities for Supporting Language and Comprehension in Early Childhood Classrooms, Shayne B. Piasta, Hyejin Kim, & Yeqing Liu
4. From Ears to Eyes: Supporting Reading Comprehension through Systematic Instruction on Listening Comprehension, Young-Suk Grace Kim & Molly Leachman
5. Improving Elementary Students’ Reading Comprehension through Structured and Systematic Translation of Research to Practice, Kausalai Kay Wijekumar, Kacee Lambright, Ashley Stack, Javier Garza, & Pilar Sierra
6. Best Practices for Supporting Motivation during Reading Comprehension Instruction, Eunsoo Cho, Sarah Reiley, & Philip Capin
7. Inferencing and Reading Comprehension, Gina Biancarosa
8. Effects of Language Components on Language and Reading Comprehension, Doris Luft Baker, Yixian Huang, Cinthia Berenice Herrera, Sholeh Moradibavi, & Hanyue Sha
9. Hearing Themselves in Books: Using Authentic Children’s Literature to Support the Language of African American Students, Ramona T. Pittman, Endia Lindo, Whitney N. McCoy, & Jasmine Rogers
10. Language and Reading Assessment Practices for Multilingual Learners from Spanish-Speaking Homes, Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, Bhabika Joshi, & Phoebe J. Ahn
11. The Role of Language in Reading Comprehension: Instructional Implications for Teachers of Multilingual Learners, C. Patrick Proctor & Rebecca D. Silverman
12. “What If I Don’t Speak Their Languages?”: Engaging Educators and Multilingual Learners in Collaborative Exploration of the Language for School Literacy, Emily Phillips Galloway
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