In a 1996 American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) article, Deborah Ball and
Suzanne Wilson (Ball & Wilson, 1996) made an argument for “integrity in teaching,” in which …

Over the past 30 years of literacy research, developments in sociocultural theories of literate
practice have turned many reading researchers from viewing text as the driver of literacy …

The Model of Domain Learning (MDL) is an alternative perspective on expertise that arose
from studies of student learning in academic domains, such as reading, history, physics, and …

Basic reading proficiency is key to success in all content areas, but attending to students'
literacy development remains a challenge for many teachers, especially after the primary …

We begin this chapter with a defi nition of constructively responsive reading comprehension
strategies. We then describe the theoretical and practical signifi cance of the investigation of …

Research on students' ideas about history has been an active field of investigation in recent
decades. Over 200 empirical studies have been published since the late 1970s by scholars …

Basic reading comprehension and summary tend to be the focus in social studies and
history classrooms, if reading and writing are included at all. But such a focus inhibits a …

Why do we assess reading? What do we assess when we assess reading? How, where,
and when do we assess reading? Reading instruction and assessment expert Peter …

This article describes an attempt to bring disciplinary historical inquiry into the social studies
classroom. This work emerges from a five-school 6-month intervention in San …

How can we best contribute to our students' reading development and achievement? What
are the hallmarks of successful, independent student readers? An examination of reading …