Teaching Readers (Not Reading) Guilford Publications

Reading instruction is too often grounded in a narrowly defined "science of reading" that focuses exclusively on cognitive skills and strategies. Yet cognition is just one aspect of reading development. This book guides elementary educators to understand and address other scientifically supported factors that influence each student's literacy learning--metacognition, motivation and engagement, social–emotional learning, self-efficacy, and more. Peter Afflerbach uses classroom vignettes to illustrate concrete suggestions for instruction and assessment. Useful features include end-of-chapter review questions and a downloadable reproducible tool, the Healthy Readers Profile.