Prologue : linking the new with the old : how are familiar comprehension skills and strategies related to executive skills? -- Executive skills : what are they, and why are they important for developing thinking readers? -- Plans and goals : getting ready to read -- Organization : why text and reader organization matter -- Cognitive flexibility : juggling multiple aspects of reading -- Working memory : holding and linking ideas in mind while reading -- Inhibition and impulse control : resisting distractions to support comprehension -- Social understanding : the importance of mind reading for reading comprehension -- Executive skills, word recognition, and dyslexia : cracking the code is complicated, too -- Appendix A. Rubric for assessing executive skills in observations of your students' reading behavior -- Appendix B. List of games that require behaviors related to the executive skills described in this book -- Appendix C. List of executive skill-based intervention studies that resulted in improvements in reading.
Summary:
"How do K-12 students become self-regulated learners who actively deploy comprehension strategies to make meaning from texts? This cutting-edge guide is the first book to highlight the importance of executive skills for improving reading comprehension. Chapters review the research base for particular executive functions/m-/such as planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control/m-/and present practical skills-building strategies for the classroom. Detailed examples show what each skill looks like in real readers, and sidebars draw explicit connections to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)"-- Provided by publisher.
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