The importance of early vocabulary development to later reading comprehension has been
well-established. However, there have been a number of criticisms that the assessments …

The purpose of this year-long project was to examine an instructional framework intended to
help middle school teachers create instruction that responds to students' reading identities …

Writing is an essential skill and outcome for academic and professional success, but the call
for evidence-based practices and instructional differentiation to support all student-writers' …

This study examines the relationship between types and sequences of self‐regulated
reading activities in task‐oriented reading with quality of task achievement of 51 low …

The adoption of the Common Core State Standards has raised the achievement ante for
students, and the instructional ante for teachers, too. Across disciplines, all students, even …

This manuscript presents results of a Level 2 exploratory randomized controlled trial of the
Reciprocal Reading programme in secondary schools. The programme is a workforce …

This study examines young English readers' ability to infer word meanings in context and to
use metacognitive knowledge for constructing word meanings in relation to their reading …

Many people are concerned about the literacy abilities of youngsters. In education and at
work many youngsters experience difficulties in understanding what they read and in …

Honglin Chen is Associate Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University
of Wollongong, Australia. Her research focuses primarily on learning and teaching of …

Education systems around the world have moved to develop literacy progressions that
describe a sequence of development in oral language (talking and listening) …