Introduction

• Models of reading instruction. This video is not available. See related video in Chapter 1.

Chapter 1

• Models of reading comprehension instruction

• Skilled reading versus strategic reading

• Constrained and unconstrainted skills

• A new model for comprehension instruction

Chapter 2

• Background knowledge in reading

• The sounds of language

• Fluency in reading

• Vocabulary in reading

Chapter 3

• The “will to read”

• The four dimensions of dispositions for learning

• Building classroom choice

Chapter 4

• Cultivating thrill in reading comprehension

• Critical literacy

• How do we question the commonplace in a text?

• How do we consider the role of the author?

• How do we encourage action through comprehension?

Chapter 5

• Modeling and read alouds (Note: Your version of the book may list this video as "Text readability and text complexity,” but it has been updated and is now “Modeling and read alouds.”)

• Qualitative characteristics of texts

• Digital texts

• Making decisions about texts

• Direct instruction

• Dialogic instruction

• An instructional framework that works