This book has been replaced by Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5149-1.
"This book will change the way practitioners and researchers think about and teach reading comprehension. It is a 'must have' for anyone who wants to know more about how executive skills influence this vital aspect of reading. Teachers and reading specialists will find accessible instructional advice. Researchers will find an integrated and exhaustive account of state-of-the-art research that bridges the fields of reading, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. Cartwrights style is informative yet practical and personable."--Katherine Hilden, PhD, School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Radford University "Every teacher has experienced students who can decode fluently but struggle to make sense of text. This book offers a new perspective for working with these students. Demonstrating how executive skills--such as planning, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control--affect comprehension, Cartwright artfully translates foundational research into easy-to-implement classroom activities. Classroom teachers will find this an understandable and useful guide that can be put to immediate use."--Christina Saunders, MEd, EdS, reading specialist, Hanover County Public Schools, Virginia "Timely and unique. Cartwright integrates blossoming research on executive processes with knowledge about the development of reading abilities, and offers straightforward classroom exercises to improve both sets of skills. This book needs to be used in teacher training programs and should be on the reading lists of advanced undergraduate developmental and educational seminars. As a text, it immerses students in cutting-edge cognitive-developmental research in the motivating context of reading improvement."--Stuart Marcovitch, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"If you are a classroom teacher, reading specialist, or graduate student looking for one book that not only will have a deep impact on your understanding of thinking and learning, but also will significantly improve your instructional practice related to reading comprehension, look no further.Executive Skills and Reading Comprehensionis that book."--Robb Gaskins, PhD, Head of School, Benchmark School, Media, Pennsylvania "This in-depth resource connects reading comprehension to the most important constellation of cognitive skills in childhood--executive function. The book takes an important, pragmatic step forward in teaching the whole child, and should find a home on teachers desks."--Adam J. Cox, PhD, author of No Mind Left Behind-
