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The shelves of university libraries and college bookstores are filled with books on beginning reading instruction, but there are few, if any, quality works that address how to teach reading and promote the literacy of middle-grade students. This void has now been filled. Building upon their collective experience and scholarship, Worthy, Broaddus, and Ivey take us on a theoretically based yet pragmatic journey through the intricacies of teaching students who may have acquired fundamental skills in decoding and comprehension but have yet to develop into skillful, willful, mature readers. For college instructors who teach reading methods courses focused on the upper elementary or middle-school levels/m-/or for those simply interested in the unique dynamics of teaching literacy to preadolescents/m-/this is an essential resource. The authors provide the substantive detail needed to teach reading to this oft-neglected group of learners. Preservice students, practicing teachers, and college instructors will find this to be an engaging, informative work.
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