Children's Reading Comprehension and Assessment

Contents: Part I: Historical and Theoretical Foundations. A.P. Sweet, Assessment of Reading Comprehension: The RAND Reading Study Group Vision. P.D. Pearson, D.N. Hamm, The History of Reading Comprehension Assessment. W. Kintsch, E. Kintsch, Comprehension. N.K. Duke, Comprehension of What for What: Comprehension as a Non-Unitary Construct. Part II: Development and Motivational Factors in Reading Comprehension. P. van den Broek, P. Kendeou, K. Kremer, J. Lynch, J. Butler, M.J. White, E.P. Lorch, The Assessment of Comprehension Abilities in Young Children. S.G. Paris, R.D. Carpenter, A.H. Paris, E.E. Hamilton, Spurious and Genuine Correlates of Children's Reading Comprehension. S.A. Stahl, E.H. Hiebert, The Word…