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Introduction

1. Significant Literacy Research Informing English Language Arts Instruction

Richard Beach and David O’Brien

2. Re-positioning Race in English Language Arts Research

Arlette Ingram Willis

3. Literacy Engagement and Motivation: Rationale, Research, Teaching, and Assessment

John T. Guthrie and Allan Wigfield

4. Reading Comprehension, Critical Understanding: Research-based Practice

Maureen McLaughlin and Glenn DeVoogd

5. Toward a New Appreciation of Speaking and Listening

Cheryl McLean, Mastin Prinsloo, Jennifer Rowsell, and Scott Bulfin

6. Vocabulary Instruction: Research and Practice

Susan Watts-Taffe, Peter Fisher, and Camille Blachowicz

7. Academic Vocabulary Instruction: Building Knowledge about the World and How Words Work

J. Kenneth Logan and Michael J. Kieffer

8. Cultivating Students’ Inner Language of Comprehending Through Classroom Conversation

Jeffrey Zwiers

9. Word Study, Research to Practice: Spelling, Phonics, Meaning

Shane Templeton and Donald R. Bear

10. Writing Research and Practice

Steven Graham

11. The Promise and Challenge of Language Arts Assessment in Twenty-first Century Classrooms

Peter Afflerbach and Jennifer D. Turner

12. Disciplinary Literacy

Cynthia Shanahan and Timothy Shanahan

13. Diverse Learners in Linguistically Complex Classroom Research, Policy, and Practice

Arnetha F. Ball and Robert Jiménez

14. Repositioning Online Reading To A Central Location In The Language Arts

Lisa Kervin, Jessica Mantei, and Donald J. Leu

15. Language Arts Learning in Multimodal and Multilingual Contexts

Angie Zapata, Tasha Tropp Laman, and Amy Seely Flint

16. It Is About Time for Comprehensive Language Arts Instruction (We’ve Tried Everything Else!)

Patricia Cunningham and James W. Cunningham

17. Language Arts Instruction in Middle and High School Classrooms

Allison Skerrett and Amber Warrington

18. I Know I Can!: Teacher Self-efficacy in the English Language Arts Classroom

Megan Tschannen-Moran, Denise Johnson, and Bronwyn MacFarlane

Epilogue: Traversing the Landscape: A Retrospective Reading of the Fourth Edition of the Handbook on Teaching the English Language Arts

P. David Pearson and M. Lisette Lopez

Author Bios

Chapter Reviewers

Index

Diane Lapp is a Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, USA.

Douglas Fisher is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University, USA.

Both Lapp and Fisher are teacher leaders at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, CA.