Handbook of Reading Research, Volume 3

As in previous volumes, the classic topics of reading are included- from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom. Volume III though goes further, it captures reading researcher's new self-awareness of who they are as individuals, how they think, what they value; they have become more receptive to novelty and change; and more community conscious. 47 articles from well known authors are included under the following topics: * Literacy research around the world (New Zealand, UK, Australia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the US) * Methods of literacy research (teacher research, designing intervention programmes, undertaking historical research, narrative approaches, critical approaches, ethnographic approaches, verbal reports and protocol analysis, single subject experiments, sociocultural studies, research synthesis) * Literacy processes (neurobiology, phonological and lexical processes, vocabulary processes, developmental processes, constructing meaning from text, classroom language, children's literature, research on response to literature, engagement and motivation in reading) * Literacy practices (emergent literacy, beginning reading instruction, phonological awareness, vocabulary instruction, spelling, what should comprehension instruction be the instruction of, literature based reading instruction, integrated literacy instruction, the role of text in classroom learning, college studying, reading difficulties, teacher research in the contact zone, teaching teachers to teach reading, literacy education in an Information Age, the effects of other technology on literacy and literacy learning) * Literacy policies (second language reading in the 20th century, bilingual children's reading, multicultural perspectives on policies for improving literacy achievement, family literacy, intergenerational literacy, the relationship between policy and instruction, policy -orientated research on literacy standards and assessment).