Preface
Introduction
Hunter Boylan
Developmental Education: What’s It About?
1 Historical Contexts
Monica Wyatt
The Past, Present, and Future Need for College Reading Courses in the U.S.
Nancy V. Wood
College Reading Instruction as Reflected by Current Reading Textbooks
Norman A. Stahl, James R. King, and Ulinda Eilers
Postsecondary Reading Strategies Rediscovered
2 Paradigms and Programs
Louise Bohr
College and Precollege Reading Instruction: What Are the Real Differences?
Mellinee Lesley
Exploring the Links between Critical Literacy and Developmental Reading
Jim Reynolds and Stuart C. Werner
An Alternative Paradigm for College Reading and Study Skills Courses
Nannette Evans Commander and Brenda D. Smith
Developing Adjunct Reading and Learning Courses That Work
3 Teachers and Praxis
Francine C. Falk-Ross
Toward the New Literacy: Changes in College Students’ Reading Comprehension Strategies following Reading/ Writing Projects
Annette F. Gourgey
Teaching Reading from a Metacognitive Perspective: Theory and Classroom Experiences
Martha E. Casazza
Using a Model of Direct Instruction to Teach Summary Writing in a College Reading Class
Kenneth Wolf and Yvonne Siu-Runyan
Portfolio Purposes and Possibilities
4 Strategic Learning
Michele L. Simpson and Sherrie L. Nist
An Update on Strategic Learning: It’s More Than Textbook Reading Strategies
Martha E. Casazza
Strengthening Practice with Theory
Claire E. Weinstein, Douglas Dierking, Jenefer Husman, Linda Roska, and Lorrie Powdrill
The Impact of a Course in Strategic Learning on the Long-Term Retention of College Students
Donna L. Mealey
Understanding the Motivation Problems of At-Risk College Students
5 New-to-English Learners
Lía D. Kamhi-Stein
Profiles of Underprepared Second-Language Readers
Denise Johnson and Virginia Steele
So Many Words, So Little Time: Helping College ESL Learners Acquire Vocabulary-Building Strategies
Vicki L. Holmes and Margaret R. Moulton
Dialogue Journals as an ESL Learning Strategy
Laura Bauer and Linda Sweeney
The Use of Literary Letters with Post-secondary Non-native Students
6 Planning for a Range of Readers
Shevawn Eaton and Sharon Wyland
College Students with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): Implications for Learning Assistance Professionals
Karen S. Kalivoda, Jeanne L. Higbee, and Debra C. Brenner
Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments
7 Reading in the Content Areas
Michele L. Simpson
Conducting Reality Checks to Improve Students’ Strategic Learning
Julia Beyeler
Reluctant Readers: Case Studies of Reading and Study Strategies in Introduction to Psychology
Jodi Patrick Holschuh
Do as I Say, Not as I Do: High, Average, and Low-Performing Students’ Strategy Use in Biology
8 The Reading/Writing Connection
Karen B. Quinn
Teaching Reading and Writing as Modes of Learning in College: A Glance at the Past; a View to the Future
Amelia E. El-Hindi
Connecting Reading and Writing: College Learners’ Metacognitive Awareness
Mary P. Deming and Maria Valeri-Gold
Making Reading and Writing Connections with Shay Youngblood’s Big Mama Stories
Cynthia M. Chamblee
Bringing Life to Reading and Writing for At-Risk College Students
Maryann S. Feola
Using Drama to Develop College Students’ Transaction with Text
9 Beyond the Reading/Writing Connection
Nannette Evans Commander and Sandra U. Gibson
Ideas in Practice: Debate as an Active Learning Strategy
Carolyn Beardsley Meigs and Ruth Abernethy McCreary
Foreign Films: An International Approach to Enhance College Reading
10 Technology
Alison V. Kuehner
The Effects of Computer Instruction on College Students’ Reading Skills
Marsha D. Sinagra, Jennifer Battle, and Sheila A. Nicholson
E-mail "Booktalking": Engaging Developmental Readers with Authors and Others in the Academic Community
David C. Caverly and Lucy MacDonald
Techtalk: Developing Online Reading Courses
David C. Caverly
Back to the Future: Preparing Students to Use Technology in Higher Education
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