Teaching Reading in the 21st Century: Motivating All Learners, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (May 7, 2019) © 2020
  • Michael W Graves
  • Bonnie B. Graves
  • Connie F Juel
  • Peter Dewitz

Title overview

For courses in elementary reading methods (K-8).

A student-centered focus on reading instruction that fosters students' motivation and passion for reading

Teaching Reading in the 21st Century: Motivating All Learners emphasizes motivation in order to help develop students who want to read, and therefore can read. Based on the most current research, the text covers the 5 major components of reading. The authors consistently reinforce the idea that motivated students will read widely and deeply, which facilitates fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

The 6th Edition offers updated coverage of assessment and an increased emphasis on digital texts.

Hallmark features of this title

  • The text presents comprehensive coverage of all 5 components of reading: phonemic awareness (Chapter 7), phonics (Chapter 8), fluency (Chapter 9), vocabulary (Chapter 10), and comprehension (Chapters 11 and 12).
  • In the Classroom examples offer specific lesson plans, assessment tools or vignettes that demonstrate how a lesson would play out in a real classroom.
  • Reading Corner offers an updated list of children's books that can be used for specific curriculum goals. These lists focus on a variety of attributes, including genre, topics and range of complexity.
  • Reflect and Apply questions and activities prompt readers to think through the ideas and issues presented in the chapter.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: An increased focus on the role of digital text includes updated information and research on how to help elementary and middle school students use internet resources effectively and critically.
  • UPDATED: Chapter 3, Motivation, has been revised to address the impact of technology. Additional motivating activities have been added, including a tool to determine what motivates individual students.
  • UPDATED: Chapter 5, Assessment, has been significantly revised to reflect the increasing number of progress-monitoring and computer-based assessments that inform instruction decisions.
  • NEW: Chapter 6, Texts for Reading Instruction, provides teachers with information about how to evaluate, select and organize texts to help build comprehension. The chapter also offers information about how to help students make the best use of the internet.
  • UPDATED: Two chapters devoted to reading comprehension have been revised to emphasize different strategies for comprehending informational text and narrative text.
  • UPDATED: Other revised and expanded topics include the current landscape and issues in reading instruction; strategies for teaching English learners and readers who struggle; the link between word recognition and vocabulary; and developing English learners' oral language skills and vocabulary.

Key features

Features of MyLab Education for the 6th Edition

  • Video Examples provide an illustration of literacy principles or concepts in action. These video examples show students and teachers working in classrooms and opinions of experts from the field.
  • Self-Checks allow students to monitor their own learning by taking short quizzes. The self-checks are made up of self-grading multiple-choice items that not only provide feedback on whether questions are answered correctly or incorrectly, but also provide rationales for both correct and incorrect answers.
  • Application Exercises throughout each chapter help students apply what they have read, engage in critical thinking, and bring abstract ideas into a real-world context. Once learners provide their own answers to the questions, they receive feedback in the form of model answers written by the authors.

Table of contents

  1. Reading and Learning to Read
  2. Reading Instruction
  3. Motivation
  4. Meeting the Needs of All Students
  5. Assessment
  6. Text for Reading Instruction
  7. Emergent Readers
  8. Word Identification
  9. Fluency
  10. Vocabulary
  11. Comprehension of Narrative Text
  12. Comprehension of Informational Text
  13. Reading and Writing
  14. Reading Instruction for English Learners

Author bios

About our authors

Peter Dewitz is an educational consultant and researcher who spends most of his time working with teachers and children in public schools. Peter has taught at the University of Toledo, the University of Virginia and Mary Baldwin University and has worked as a visiting researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He taught in the upper elementary grades and his major research interests are educational materials (specifically the efficacy of reading programs), the development and instruction of reading comprehension, and the uses and abuses of assessments in our schools.

Michael F. Graves is a professor emeritus of literacy education at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Mike taught in the upper grades, and his research and writing focus on vocabulary learning and instruction and comprehension instruction. His current major research effort is an IES-funded research and development project on teaching word-learning strategies.

Bonnie B. Graves is a full-time education writer and the author of 15 books for children. Bonnie taught in third and fourth grades, and her major interest is making literature enticing and accessible to beginning and middle-grade learners. In addition to writing, Bonnie currently spends time working with children, teachers and other educators on children's writing.

Connie Juel is a professor of education at Stanford University. Her research centers on literacy acquisition, especially as it is affected by school instruction. She is noted for both her longitudinal research on reading development (often following children across multiple school years) and her work on interventions to help struggling readers. She was awarded the National Reading Conference's 2002 Oscar Causey Award for outstanding contributions to reading research and was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame by the International Reading Association in 2001.

Keep up with the Teaching Reading in the 21st Century author team! Visit them at www.teachingreading21stcentury.com to read their blog posts, discover helpful teaching suggestions, or to contact them directly.

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