Literacy in America

by Guzzetti, Barbara J.; Guzzetti, Barbara J.; Alvermann, Donna E.; Johns, Jerry L.

• ISBN13: 9781576073582
• ISBN10: 1576073580
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

The definitive encyclopedic resource on literacy, literacy instruction, and literacy assessment in the United States.

Author Biography

Barbara J. Guzzetti is a professor at the College of Education at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Further Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: The Landscape of Literacy in Seven Portraits	xiii
List of Contributors	xxxi
Literacy in America	1	(700)
Volume 1: A--M
Ability Grouping	1	(4)
Accountability and Testing	5	(3)
Active Listening	8	(2)
Activity Theory	10	(3)
Adolescent Literacy	13	(2)
Adolescent Literature	15	(4)
Adult Literacy	19	(3)
Adult Literacy Programs	22	(3)
Adult Literacy Testing	25	(4)
American Reading Forum	29	(1)
Artists' Books	29	(1)
Assessment Interviews	30	(1)
Assessment Interviews for Parents and Teachers	31	(2)
At-Risk Students	33	(3)
Authentic Assessment	36	(4)
Automaticity and Reading Fluency	40	(3)
Balanced Literacy Instruction	43	(2)
Basal Readers	45	(3)
Bibliotherapy	48	(1)
Bilingual Education	49	(3)
Bilingualism	52	(5)
Biliteracy	57	(3)
Book Clubs	60	(3)
Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking	63	(1)
Children's Literature	64	(2)
Classroom Writing Assessment	66	(6)
Cloze Procedure	72	(1)
College Literacy and Learning	73	(1)
College Reading and Learning Association	74	(1)
College Reading Association	75	(1)
Comics	76	(1)
Commercial Reading Programs	77	(3)
Community Literacy	80	(2)
Comparative Reading	82	(3)
Comprehension Strategies	85	(3)
Computer-Assisted Instruction	88	(2)
Concept Instruction with Text	90	(3)
Conceptual Change Learning and Texts	93	(4)
Considerate Text	97	(2)
Constructivism	99	(2)
Content-Area Literacy	101	(3)
Context in Literacy	104	(3)
Cooperative Learning	107	(1)
Critical Literacy	108	(3)
Critical Media Literacy	111	(2)
Critical Reading	113	(2)
Criticisms of Reader Response	115	(3)
Critique of the National Reading Panel Report	118	(3)
Deaf Students and Literacy	121	(2)
Delayed Readers	123	(4)
Developmental and College Reading	127	(4)
Dialogic Responsiveness	131	(1)
Dialogue Journals	132	(1)
Directed Reading Activity and Directed Reading-Thinking Activity	133	(2)
Discourse Analysis	135	(5)
Discursive Theory	140	(3)
Discussion	143	(3)
The Discussion Web	146	(1)
Distance Learning	147	(3)
Diversity	150	(4)
Dynamic Assessment	154	(1)
Dyslexia	155	(2)
Early Literacy	157	(3)
Early Literacy Assessment	160	(5)
Early Literacy Software	165	(2)
Ebonics	167	(1)
Ecological Literacy	168	(2)
Economics of Literacy Development	170	(3)
Effective Schools and Teachers	173	(2)
Elders and Literacy	175	(2)
Electronic Jigsaw	177	(1)
English as a Second Language (ESL) Literacy Evaluation and Assessment	178	(3)
English Journal	181	(1)
The Even Start Family Literacy Program	182	(1)
Eye Movements	183	(2)
Family Literacy	185	(2)
Feminist Post-Structuralism	187	(4)
Flexibility	191	(1)
Fluency	191	(4)
Gender and Discussion	195	(4)
Gender and Post-Typographical Text	199	(2)
Gender and Reading	201	(4)
Gender and Writing	205	(3)
Graffiti	208	(4)
Graphic Aids	212	(1)
Graphic Organizers	213	(2)
Group Reading Inventories	215	(2)
The Handbook of Reading Research	217	(1)
The Head Start Program	218	(1)
Heritage-Language Development	219	(4)
High-Stakes Assessment	223	(1)
History of Reading Instruction	224	(7)
History of the Book	231	(2)
Hypertext	233	(6)
Independent Reading	239	(5)
Individualized Reading	244	(3)
Informal Reading Inventory	247	(2)
Inquiry-Based Instruction	249	(2)
Instant Messaging	251	(3)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy	254	(3)
International Reading Association	257	(1)
Intertextuality	258	(1)
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy	259	(1)
Journal of Literacy Research	260	(1)
Junior Great Books	260	(3)
Kidwatching and Classroom Evaluation	263	(3)
Kinesthetic Methods	266	(1)
KWL and KWL+	267	(6)
Language Acquisition	273	(3)
Language Arts	276	(1)
Language Arts Instruction	277	(4)
Language Attitudes	281	(6)
Language Experience Approach	287	(3)
Laubach Literacy	290	(1)
Learning Centers	291	(2)
Learning with Texts	293	(5)
Linguistic Approaches to Reading Instruction	298	(1)
Listservs in Literacy	299	(4)
Literacy and Culture	303	(5)
Literacy Autobiography	308	(2)
Literacy Definitions	310	(3)
The Literacy Dictionary	313	(2)
Literacy in Informal Settings	315	(3)
Literacy in Play	318	(5)
Literacy Labs	323	(3)
Literacy Motivation	326	(4)
Literacy Volunteers of America	330	(1)
Literature Circles	330	(4)
Literature-Based Instruction	334	(5)
Mainstreaming	339	(1)
Media Literacy	340	(4)
Mental Modeling	344	(1)
Metacognition	345	(3)
Middle-School Literacy	348	(3)
Minimum-Competency Testing	351	(1)
Miscue Analysis	352	(4)
Models of the Reading Process	356	(8)
Multicultural Literacy	364	(4)
Multicultural Literature	368	(6)
Multimedia	374	(2)
Multiple Literacies	376	(4)
Multiple Texts	380	(5)
Volume 2: N--Z
Narrative and Expository Text	385	(3)
Narrative Text	388	(4)
National Assessment of Educational Progress	392	(3)
National Commission on Reading	395	(2)
National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy	397	(1)
National Council of Teachers of English	398	(1)
National Institute for Literacy	399	(1)
National Reading Conference	400	(1)
National Reading Conference Yearbook	400	(1)
National Reading Panel	401	(3)
The National Right to Read Foundation	404	(3)
Oral Language	407	(4)
Oral Language Development	411	(4)
Oral Reading	415	(4)
Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring	419	(1)
Peer Discussion	420	(5)
Peer Status and Literacy Development	425	(3)
Phonics Instruction	428	(3)
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness	431	(3)
Policy Issues in Testing	434	(3)
The Political Nature of Literacy	437	(3)
Popular Culture	440	(3)
Portfolios	443	(2)
Post-Structuralism and Structuralism	445	(3)
Post-Typographic	448	(2)
Predictable Books	450	(3)
Prior Knowledge and Misconceptions	453	(3)
Prior-Knowledge Assessment	456	(3)
Process Writing	459	(2)
Programmed Instruction	461	(1)
Psycholinguistics	462	(2)
Public Opinion and Literacy	464	(5)
Questioning	469	(6)
The RAND Reading Study Group	475	(1)
Rauding Theory	476	(4)
Readability	480	(6)
Read-Alouds	486	(2)
Reader Response	488	(5)
Readers Theatre	493	(2)
The Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties	495	(1)
Reading Assessment	495	(6)
Reading-Attitude Measures	501	(1)
Reading Clinics	502	(4)
Reading-Comprehension Instruction	506	(2)
Reading-Comprehension Processes	508	(7)
Reading Diagnosis	515	(5)
Reading Excellence Act	520	(1)
Reading Hall of Fame	521	(1)
Reading-Interest Inventories	522	(1)
Reading Is Fundamental	523	(2)
Reading Online	525	(1)
Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly	526	(1)
Reading Readiness	526	(1)
Reading Recovery	527	(3)
Reading Research and Instruction	530	(1)
Reading Research Quarterly	530	(1)
Reading Specialists	531	(2)
The Reading Teacher	533	(1)
Reading Today	534	(1)
Reading-Writing Relationships	534	(1)
Reciprocal Teaching	535	(4)
Recreational Reading	539	(2)
Redundancy	541	(1)
Refutational Texts	542	(3)
Remediation	545	(3)
Repeated Readings	548	(3)
Research in the Teaching of English	551	(1)
Resistant Reading	552	(1)
Round-Robin Oral Reading	553	(2)
Scaffolded Literacy Instruction	555	(1)
Schema Theory	556	(2)
Schema Theory Criticisms	558	(4)
Secondary-School Reading Programs	562	(4)
Semantic Feature Analysis	566	(6)
Semantic Mapping	572	(8)
Semiotics	580	(1)
Sight Words	581	(2)
Silent Reading	583	(1)
Social Constructivism	584	(5)
Social Justice and Literacies	589	(6)
Social Nature of Literacy	595	(4)
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading	599	(1)
Sociolinguistics and Literacy	599	(4)
Software for Older Readers	603	(2)
Speed Reading	605	(1)
Spelling	606	(4)
Standardized Test Score Decline	610	(3)
Standardized Test Score Interpretation	613	(2)
Standardized Testing	615	(2)
Standards	617	(2)
Story Grammar	619	(3)
Storytelling	622	(4)
Structural Analysis	626	(2)
Study Guides	628	(3)
Study Skills and Strategies	631	(1)
Subjectivity	632	(7)
Teacher Education in Literacy	639	(4)
Teacher Research in Literacy	643	(4)
Television and Reading	647	(3)
Test Preparation	650	(1)
Textbooks	651	(2)
Thematic Organizers	653	(2)
Think-Alouds	655	(1)
Title I	656	(1)
Trade Books	657	(4)
Transactional Theory	661	(2)
Transmission Instruction	663	(2)
Visual Literacy	665	(2)
Vocabulary Instruction	667	(6)
Whole Language and Whole-Language Assessment	673	(4)
Whole Language Umbrella	677	(1)
Word Recognition	678	(4)
Workplace Literacy	682	(4)
Writing across the Curriculum	686	(2)
Writing Assessment	688	(5)
Writing Assessment in Large-Scale Contexts	693	(6)
Zines	699	(2)
List of Acronyms	701	(4)
Bibliography	705	(46)
Index	751	(28)
About the Editor	779