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• Clear, non-technical summaries of research on the subject of children as proficient readers.
• Guidance on monitoring the amount of reading and creating interventions that expands reading activity.
• Research section that studies the effects of enhancing access to appropriate books and offers suggestions for designing schools where all children have books that are appropriate.
• Research section on reading fluency that provides instructional models and methods for fostering fluency, including pause-prompt-praise, partner reading, taped read-alongs, impress method, choral reading, and fluency charting.
• Research section on comprehension strategy with a focus on developing higher-order comprehension and discussion.  
• Research section on critical design features for interventions for struggling readers.

• New section on No Child Left behind Act.
• New research section on vocabulary development and instruction.
• New research section on the role of choice in reading activity.
• New section on Reading First Supplementary Services intervention designs. 
• Expanded section on learning from the Exemplary Teacher and Beating the Odds Studies.
• At-a-glance chart correlating some of the reading research to Reading First.

<>PREFACE

c h a p t e r  1  Reading Instruction in U.S. Schools

Why Another Book?

Why Now?

So How Bad Is the Situation in Terms

of Reading Achievement?

But If Achievement Is Actually Rising, Why Another Book?

Can Educational Research Provide Support

for Meeting These Challenges?

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

What Are Characteristics of Scientifically

Based Reading Research?

SUMMARY

c h a p t e r  2  What Really Matters: Kids Need to Read a Lot

Research on Volume of Reading

Thinking about Volume of Reading

SUMMARY

c h a p t e r  3  Kids Need Books They Can Read

Task Difficulty, Choice, and Achievement

Methods for Estimating Text Complexity

Enhancing Access to Appropriate Books

SUMMARY

c h a p t e r 4 Kids Need to Learn to Read Fluently

Understanding the Importance of Reading Fluently

Interventions to Develop Fluency in Struggling Readers

SUMMARY

c h a p t e r  5  Kids Need to Develop Thoughtful Literacy

Conversation and Connections

Isn’t Thoughtful Literacy Just a Buzz-Word

for Comprehension?

The Effects of Thoughtful Literacy Instruction

Research on Effective Comprehension Instruction

Vocabulary Knowledge Is Important for Thoughtful Literacy

Crafting Opportunities That Enhance Students’

Comprehension and Understanding

Developing Thoughtful Literacy

SUMMARY

c h a p t e r  6  Where to Begin: Instruction for Struggling Readers

Improving Classroom Instruction

Enhancing Access to Intensive, Expert Instruction

Expanding Available Instructional Time

Availability of Support for Older Struggling Readers

SUMMARY

AFTERWORD

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Reading Assessment, Diagnosis and Remediation  [RELATED TITLES OF INTEREST]   (Reading & Literacy)
Reading Methods (Supplementary)  [SUPPLEMENTS]   (Reading & Literacy)
Reading in Special Education  (Special Education)

Stellar Reviews for the Second Edition!

“Allington has rediscovered the gold from among the innumerable nuggets of reading research ore…he values the reader’s specific interests and needs, but does not overwhelm.”
M. Priscilla Myers, Santa Clara University

“The author uses realistic examples from teachers and classrooms to illustrate effective, meaningful reading instruction with struggling readers. A teacher teaching other teachers is a powerful model for reforming instruction.”
Jo Ann Dugan, Ohio University

A must-have reading resource by nationally recognized scholar and author Richard Allington!

In his unique and expert voice, Allington delivers a concise and balanced introduction to reading remediation, intervention programs, and the topic of struggling readers in grades 2—9. The second edition of What Really Matters for Struggling Readers includes new research on vocabulary development and expanded research on fluency and comprehension. It continues to focus on helping teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality- and research-based components, framing them within the confines of the No Child Left Behind Act.

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers’ easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support key principles of effective instructional design, along with its guidance for teachers on how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers, have made this a best-selling book!

Take a Peek inside the Second Edition

• New! Research on the role of choice in motivating reading activity and development
• New! A procedure for evaluating your school’s success in meeting the needs of struggling readers
• New! At-a-glance chart that correlates reading research to Reading First
• New! Section on expanding vocabulary as a component of comprehension development
• Guidance on monitoring volume of reading and creating interventions that expand reading activity
• Instructional models and methods for fostering fluency
• Includes comprehension strategy instruction with a focus on developing higher-order comprehension and discussion

For the Reading & Literacy Discipline

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
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Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Southern Poverty Law Center
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  What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs, 2/E
  Allington
  ©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 216 pp | Instock
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  What Really Matters for Struggling Readers delivers a concise and balanced introduction to reading remediation and intervention programs and the topic of struggling readers.

  The Second Edition of What Really Matters for Struggling Readers continues to focus on helping teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality- and research-based components framing them within the confines of the No Child Left Behind Act.

  Nationally recognized scholar and author Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support three important principles of effective instructional design and shows teachers how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers.

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  What Really Matters in Fluency: Research-based Practices across the Curriculum
  Allington
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205570585 | ISBN-13: 9780205570584
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  What Really Matters in Fluency presents a teacher-friendly framework for how fluency typically develops.

   

  Fluency has risen to the top of today’s instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is still unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of fluency development, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in fostering development with a few modest changes to their daily reading lessons that will strengthen every student’s fluency development. Unlike any other book on the topic of fluency, Dick Allington provides a research-base that supports wide, free voluntary reading as an overlooked component in the development of reading fluency along with implications this has for planning fluency interventions. In addition, Dick provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit fluency growth and a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into fluent and achieving readers. Teachers will be inspired and confident to teach fluency!

               

  Written by the authors you know and trust, each of the books in the What Really Matters series offers a succinct presentation of what matters most when teaching different aspects of the reading process. With a thought-provoking, rich presentation, Pat Cunningham and Dick Allington explore complex issues teachers of reading face in today’s classrooms and bring each of the topics to life. These brief and inexpensive books are written in a lively narrative with clear organization, exceptional pedagogy, and special features. Their friendly design and compact size make the books accessible, convenient, and easy-to read. 

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  What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-based Designs
  Allington
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 216 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205627544 | ISBN-13: 9780205627547
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  What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-Based Designs presents a teacher-friendly framework for how to design response to intervention programs that effectively support struggling readers.

   

  The Response to Intervention initiative has risen to the top of today’s instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is unfamiliar terrain for many teachers and administrators. To help educators acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in designing response to intervention (RTI) programs such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers. Unlike any other book on the topic, Allington provides a research-base that supports closing the reading achievement gap along with implications this has for designing RTI programs. In addition, he provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors that inhibit poor, disabled, and  English language learners from achieving and offers a number of research-based instructional strategies and routines for turning struggling readers into achieving readers. Teachers will be inspired and confident to design programs that respond to instruction and intervention!

               

  Written by the authors you know and trust, each of the books in the What Really Matters series offers a succinct presentation of what matters most when teaching different aspects of the reading process. With a thought-provoking, rich presentation, Pat Cunningham and Dick Allington explore complex issues teachers of reading face in today’s classrooms and bring each of the topics to life. These brief and inexpensive books are written in a lively narrative with clear organization, exceptional pedagogy, and special features. Their friendly design and compact size make the books accessible, convenient, and easy-to read. 

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  What Really Matters in Vocabulary: Research-based Practices across the Curriculum
  Cunningham
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 208 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205570410 | ISBN-13: 9780205570416
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  In What Really Matters in Vocabulary, Pat Cunnigham brings the very meaning of vocabulary to life and shows teachers what really matters is building bigger vocabulary to make all students better readers.  

   

  In What Really Matters in Vocabulary, Pat Cunningham clearly explains that vocabulary isn't just a predictor for comprehension. She reminds teachers how much vocabulary matters and how complex it is to teach children meanings for words. Drawing on her experience as a classroom teacher, researcher, scholar, author, and co-founder of the Four-Blocks Literacy Framework, Pat Cunningham offers elementary teachers a practical model and friendly strategies for helping ALL students develop their vocabularies. Guiding teachers to use all available resources to build rich meaning vocabularies for students, Pat helps to ensure every student's success in school and beyond. 

   

  Written by the authors you know and trust, each of the books in the What Really Matters series offers a succinct presentation of what matters most when teaching different aspects of the reading process. With a thought-provoking, rich presentation, Pat Cunningham and Dick Allington explore complex issues teachers of reading face in today’s classrooms and bring each of the topics to life. These brief and inexpensive books are written in a lively narrative with clear organization, exceptional pedagogy, and special features. Their friendly design and compact size make the books accessible, convenient, and easy-to read.

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  What Really Matters in Writing: Research-Based Practices Across the Curriculum
  Cunningham & Cunningham
  ©2010 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 240 pp | Instock
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  A rich, focused explanation of the most important things teachers can do to get their students into writing, and writing well!

   

  This new entry in the best selling What Really Matters series turns its trademark "essentials and practices" treatment on the skill of writing. Pat Cunningham explains how to get students started writing and what to do once they are. Dedicated chapters for spelling, editing, and revising help teachers introduce these skills as critical parts of the writing process. Pat also explains how to extend writing, editing, and revising across the curriculum, to bring the benefits of writing and critical thinking to all content areas. Filled with student examples, sample lessons, and activities, this is one all-around resource no teacher should be without!

   

  Written by the authors you know and trust, each of the books in the What Really Matters series offers a succinct presentation of what matters most when teaching different aspects of the reading process. With a thought-provoking, rich presentation, Pat Cunningham and Dick Allington explore complex issues teachers of reading face in today's classrooms and bring each of the topics to life. These brief and inexpensive books are written in a lively narrative with clear organization, exceptional pedagogy, and special features. Their friendly design and compact size make the books accessible, convenient, and easy-to read.

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