Teaching Readers (Not Reading)
Moving Beyond Skills and Strategies to Reader-Focused Instruction
Peter Afflerbach
I. Teaching Reading or Teaching Readers?: Moving Beyond a Focus on Strategies and Skills
1. Why Teaching Readers Is Different from Teaching Reading
2. Experiencing Cognition, Affect, and Conation in Our Reading
3. Critical Concepts: Definitions and Descriptions
4. Teaching Readers: A History of Knowing Better Than We Are Doing
5. Testing, the Media, and the “Science of Reading”
II. Teaching Readers: Examining the Factors That Influence Reading Development and Reading Achievement
6. Introduction to the “Other” Factors That Matter in Students’ Reading Development and Achievement
7. Metacognition, Executive Functioning, and Mindfulness
8. Self-Efficacy
9. Motivation and Engagement
10. Attributions and Growth Mindsets
11. Epistemology and Epistemic Beliefs
12. Conclusions
Appendix. Healthy Readers Profile
References
Index