Building a Knowledge Base in Reading

Use this updated edition of Building a Knowledge Base in Reading to make sound decisions about instructional programs and materials. You'll find a broad and balanced perspective for building your practice around the best possible evidence-based reading research. Updates include expanded core understandings that give implications for students at all levels, teacher resources that will help you translate these understandings into classroom practice, and chapter summaries that will help you pull together key ideas.

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