This collection features papers addressing current issues in reading comprehension from cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Organized into three sections, th

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books

A guide to the different systems for determining text difficulty offers a review of recently developed applications such as Lexiles, as well as traditional read

Reading instruction is too often grounded in a narrowly defined "science of reading" that focuses exclusively on cognitive skills and strategies. Yet cognition