Discomforting questions
Disgusting Digestion (Arnold)
Displacement hypothesis
Distinctive letters
Duke, N.
DVD players
Dysfluent readers
Dyslexia resources
E
Einstein, Albert
Electronic books (e-books): comparing print books to; pleasure reading and easy access to downloading; research findings on pros and cons of. See also Digital technologies
The Elementary School Journal
The Elson Readers
English language: complexity of decoding in the; lag-time of child letter-sound mapping in the; letter-sound mapping in the
Erskine, J. M.
European colonists background knowledge
Eyewitness: Robots
F
Facebook
Family library trips
Family reading rituals
Family reading times
Feedback: danger of praising performance type of; focusing on learning instead of failure; importance of providing; read-alouds
First-grade. See Kindergarten through second-grade classrooms
Fischer, C.
Fischer, J.
Fluency: comprehension through prosody and; dependence on being able to read via spelling; description of; keeping it simply summary on developing; parental strategies to promote child’s; reading as main mechanism to develop; self-teaching hypothesis on increasing
Fotolia, N.
Frog and Toad Together
Functional equivalence hypothesis
Furniture assembly strategy instructions
G
Genres: comprehension requiring knowing conventions of a specific; learning new; Western narrative
Geocacher Magazine
Globes
Good readers: characteristics of; implications for reading tests
Googling information
Gough, J.
Graphic novels
Graphic organizers
Great Depression
Guided reading
H
A Hard Day’s Knight (Beatles album)
Harris, Carol
Hattie, John
Have fun principle
Hi-lo books
Hi-lo publishers
Highlights (magazine)
The Hobbit (film)
Hoch, D.
Hollar, W.
Horton Hears a Hoo
The Hunger Games series
I
Ideas: comprehension by capturing the big; situation model to track multiple related
Independent academic study
Independent play
Independent reading. See also Pleasure reading
Infants: “motherese” speaking to; reading aloud to newborns and; research on brain response to meaningful word. See also Children
Information: building meaning through sentences to provide; connecting sentence to convey; digital literacy aspect of ability to evaluate; Googling for; how context resolves ambiguity of new; multiple sources of digital age. See also Knowledge
Innkpop website
Instruction. See Reading instruction
Interactive writing
Internet: functional equivalence hypothesis on print media replaced by the; hi-lo publishers listed on the; social networking websites on the. See also Digital technologies
“Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” (Carr)
J
The Jew of Malta
Journal of the Lepidopterist’s Society
K
Keller, Helen
Kind News (primary) [magazine]
Kindergarten through second-grade classrooms: academic content knowledge taught in; balanced literacy approach used in; “can’t kids just be kids” argument against academic content during; classroom reading activities; digital technologies used for; home strategies to support reading instruction in; parental strategies for increasing content knowledge taught in; phonics-based instruction in; preventing reading motivation backslide during; rules of thumb for American kindergarten reading proficiency; slowly increasing demands on comprehension during; time spent in classrooms during respective grades; whole-word instruction in. See also Classrooms; Third-grade classrooms
Kinney, J.
Kintsch, W.
Knowledge: building vocabulary; comprehension and role of background; comprehension based on knowing genre conventions; comprehension dependent on having the relevant; “cultural literacy”; digital age; experiment on verbal skill and; Googling information as no substitution for; keeping it simple summary for creating thirst for; playing catch-up for; prior; reading as best way to acquire broad; required to understand lesson on first European colonists; situation model created through background; when comprehension is hurt by lack of. See also Academic content knowledge; Information; Reading comprehension
Knowledge building: curiosity role in; read-alouds for; reading as best way for; vocabulary
Knowledge building questions: barriers to; child’s gift of curiosity driving
L
Ladybug (magazine)
Learning: cooperative; to hear speech sounds; letter-to-sound mappings; providing feedback that focuses on. See also Reading instruction
Leisure reading: practical benefits of; wishes versus reality in teenagers’ time spent on
Let’s eat, Grandma! joke
Letter-to-sound mappings: complexity in the English language; process of learning
Letters: confusable; distinctive; English language; exploiting “letters in the wild”; learning letter-to-sound mappings; learning to hear speech sounds of; logos and; Mann’s description of skeleton-shaped; print referencing; rules of thumb for American kindergarten skills on; teaching names of; as written visual symbols signifying sound
Librarians
Libraries: classroom; creating positive associations with; family trips to the; finding titles to interest your child at the; as source of children’s literature information
Listening actively
Literacy: balanced literacy instruction for; correlation between scores of reading test and cultural; digital; practical activities to increase your child’s
Little Bear
Logos
Looking for Alaska
Lotan, S.
Lovette, G.
M
Magazine Titles Recognition Test
Magazines
Manga (Japanese comic)
Mann, H.
Masterpiece (board game)
“The Matthew effect”
Mayer, Marissa
Meaning: built across sentences; connecting sentence; how syntactic rules determine differences in; Let’s eat, Grandma! joke on prosody and; research on infants’ brain response to words that have; two reading pathways to semantics and. See also Reading comprehension
Media exposure: activities that contribute to knowledge gained from; average daily word consumption by specific; keeping screen time under control; wishes versus reality in teenagers’ leisure time. See also Television viewing
Memory: nonverbal situation model and role of; verbal skill experiment on
Mental imagery
The Merchant of Venice
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Mocomi (magazine)
Modeled writing
Month and name game
Mother crab and child story (Aesop’s fable)
Motherese
Motivation. See Reading motivation
Movies: average daily word consumption from; comparing complex text to complex plot of; The Hobbit
Mozart, M.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Multitasking
Murphy, A.
Music-based daily word consumption
N
The Name Game
National Academy of Education report (1985)
National Assessment of Educational Progress (“N
ation’s Report Card”)
National Geographic
National Geographic Kids (magazine)
“Nation’s Report Card” (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
Netflix
New Moon (magazine)
New York City Department Education
New York Times
Newspaper reading strategies
Nickelodeon (magazine)
No Child Left Behind
Nonverbal situation model
Northwest Tree Octopus website
Nursery rhymes
O
Older readers. See Teenagers
Oprah’s book club
Our Little Earth (magazine)
P
Palov’s dog conditioning experiment
Parental strategies: avoid pressuring your child to read; for building knowledge; for building vocabulary; for cultivating child’s questions; getting young children to read; helping your child hear speech sounds; for increasing academic content knowledge; for knowledge building by answering child’s questions; for learning letters; motherese; normalizing reading for your child; practice reading via practical literacy; for preventing motivation backslide; to promote child’s fluency; to promote pleasure reading in older children; for promoting comprehension of complex text; reading aloud; for shaping reading self-concept; to support school reading instruction; teaching child independent play; when to begin reading instruction; wordplay
Parents: accepting responsibility to motivate your child’s reading; attitude toward your child’s reading; avoiding pressuring your child to read; how they unconsciously encourage reading; resources about raising a reader for; why they should want their children to read; wishes versus reality in teenagers’ leisure time
Parfitt, C.
Password (game show)
PEER (dialogic reading techniques)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Phones: average daily word consumption from; downloading e-books on
Phonics instruction: the advantage of; blue-ribbon panels reports of English-speaking countries on; description of; disadvantage of the whole-word approach compared to; examining the theories of whole-word and; how it impacts reading motivation and attitudes; included in classroom activities
Phonology (word sounds). See also Speech sounds
Pizza Hut’s Book It! program
Play-Doh
Pleasure reading: academic versus; classroom; features of great reading classrooms encouraging; getting help to encourage your child’s; help your child with scheduling their; keeping it simple summary on promoting; make it easy to access books to encourage; negative impact of digital technologies on; seeking books that look fun for; shattering reading misconceptions to promote; using social connections to promote; Wattpad and Inkpop websites for. See also Independent reading
Portal (video game)
Positive reading attitudes. See Reading attitudes
Potok, C.
Practical literacy activities
Practice. See Reading practice
Praise: danger of praising performance; effects of reading rewards vs.
Preschoolers: developing positive reading attitudes in; developing reader self-concept in; getting them to read; learning letter-to-sound mappings; read-alouds tips for; when to begin reading instruction to. See also Children
Price, R.
Print media: average daily word consumption from; functional equivalence hypothesis on Internet replacing; Manga (Japanese comic); newspaper reading strategies
Print referencing
Prior knowledge
Pronunciation: of confusable letters; English language letter-sound mapping and; learning letter-to-sound mappings; learning to hear speech sounds of letters; of letters
Prosody: comprehension, fluency, and; description of; Let’s eat, Grandma! joke on meaning and; punctuation used to help vocalize the; teacher modeling of
Punctuation: Let’s eat, Grandma! joke; vocalizing the prosody using
Q
Questions: barriers to answering; as comprehension strategy; to consider when choosing book to read; discomforting; knowledge building by answering; strategies for cultivating
“Quiet time”
R
Radio-based daily word consumption
Ranger Rick, Jr. (magazine)
Ranger Rick (magazine)
Read-alouds: by Charles Dickens to his daughters; to develop child’s knowledge; dialogic reading technique for; e-books versus print books for; learning vocabulary from picture books; to newborns and infants; print referencing during; providing feedback during; tips for. See also Books; Reading practice
Readers: characteristics of good; dysfluent; dyslexic; encouraging reluctant readers among older; general characteristics of; implications for reading tests and good; resources for parents on raising; social networking sites for the teen; studies on tolerance for unfamiliar vocabulary by. See also Self-concept
Reading: academic versus pleasure; attitudes toward; avoid pressuring your child to engage in; as best way to acquire broad knowledge; digital displacements for; dysfluent; getting your children to start; have fun; how parents unconsciously encourage; increasing academic content knowledge through; as main mechanism to develop fluency; the mental journeys affording by; practical literacy activities to do with your child; promoted for the reluctant older reader; reminding child that it is more than just decoding; reviews of scientific literature on; shattering misconceptions about; sounds (phonology) and spelling pathways to meaning; utilitarian view of; why spelling matters to process of; wishes versus reality in teenagers’ leisure time spent
Reading attitudes: family rituals that can influence; how features of great classrooms impact; how reading instruction and motivation impact; impact of the teacher on; indirect influences on; keeping it simple summary for promoting positive; origins of emotional; reading virtuous cycle role of; studies on long-term negative impact of rewards on; understanding development of
Reading comprehension: capturing big ideas from the sentences; Carol Harris/Helen Keller example of; causal connections between sentences for; comparing complex text to movies with complex inferences; comparing decoding to; digital literacy and; as foundation for reading; noticing failure of; prosody and fluency for increased; relationship between vocabulary and; role of knowledge in; situation model to track multiple related ideas for; slowing increasing demands for; studies on readers’ 98 percent familiarity with vocabulary for; teacher monitoring of; three factors that determine; when a lack of knowledge hurts. See also Knowledge; Meaning
Reading comprehension strategies: used by adults; calculating effect of instruction on; caution against overdoing instruction on; commonly taught; furniture assembly strategy instructions; instruction on
Reading corners
Reading foundation: comprehension as; decoding as; motivation to read as. See also specific issue
Reading instruction: balanced literacy approach to; digital technologies used for; home strategies to support; how it impacts reading attitudes; kindergarten classroom activities for; phonics-based; on reading comprehension strategies; when to begin; whole-word. See also Learning; Reading proficiency
Reading instruction activities: guided reading; independent reading; interactive writing; modeled writing; shared reading; shared writing
Reading motivation: attitudes toward reading and; bookcase display to facilitate; as foundation for reading; four factors that go into child’s reading choice; making reading the most attractive choice; questions to ask when choosing books; reading self-concept and; reading virtuous cycle and
Reading motivation backsliding: changes in self-concept and; changing reading attitudes and; classroom features that prevent; keeping it simple summary on preventing; parental strategies for preventing
Reading practice: family reading rituals for; family reading time set aside for; to improve fluency; the indirect route to encouraging. See also Read-alouds
Readin
g proficiency: averages in different European countries; rules of thumb for American kindergarten. See also Reading instruction
Reading rewards: effects of financial transaction of; effects of praise vs.; Pizza Hut’s Book It! program; in practice; the science of
Reading science: on the role of knowledge in comprehension; on the role of sound in reading; understanding reading rewards
Reading self-concept. See Self-concept
Reading tests: “good reader” definition and implications for; studies on 98 percent familiarity with vocabulary by readers
Reading via spelling: fluency as dependent on ability for; learning skill of; as second type of decoding; self-teaching hypothesis on learning process of
Reading virtuous cycle: description and creation of the; self-concept added to
Recognition Test of Magazine Titles
Recorded-music daily word consumption
Relaxing/thinking leisure time
Reluctant older readers: appeal of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Kinney) to; creating great reading classrooms for; encouraging them to engage in pleasure reading; keeping it simple summary on; parental strategies to encourage; providing rewards to encourage reading by
Research skills development
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
S
Sandburg, C.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Scheduling pleasure reading
School-based rewards: in practice; the science behind
Schools. See Classrooms
Scrabble Junior (board game)
The Scrambled States of America (board game)
Second-grade. See Kindergarten through second-grade classrooms
Self-concept: building reading self-image and; curriculum as an amplifier of; how parents can shape reading; increasingly abstract development of child’s; indirect influences on; link between ability to decode and; mother crab and child story (Aesop’s fable) on forming; reading virtuous cycle added to reader; sister’s first-grade artwork example of; Twitter bios as statements of. See also Children; Readers
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