Patrocinado por la asociación internacional de alfabetización y el consejo nacional de profesores de inglés.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Significant Literacy Research Informing English Language Arts Instruction, Richard Beach and David O’Brien -- Re-Positioning Race in English Language Arts Research, Arlette Ingram Willis -- Literacy Engagement and Motivation: Rationale, Research, Teaching and Assessment, John T. Guthrie and Allan Wigfield -- Reading Comprehension, Critical Understanding: Research-Based Practice -- Maureen McLaughlin and Glenn DeVoogd -- Toward a New Appreciation of Speaking and Listening, Cheryl McLean, Mastin Prinsloo, Jennifer Rowsell, and Scott Bulfin -- Vocabulary Instruction: Research and Practice, Susan Watts-Taffe, Peter Fisher, and Camille Blachowicz -- Academic Vocabulary Instruction: Building Knowledge about the World and How Words Work, J. Kenneth Logan and Michael J. Kieffer -- Cultivating Students’ Inner Language of Comprehending Through Classroom Conversation, Jeffrey Zwiers -- Word Study, Research to Practice: Spelling, Phonics, Meaning, Shane Templeton and Donald Bear -- Writing: Research and Practice, Steven Graham -- The Promise and Challenge of Language Arts Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms -- Peter Afflerbach and Jennifer Turner -- Disciplinary Literacy, Cynthia Shanahan and Timothy Shanahan -- Diverse Learners in Linguistically Complex Classroom Research, Policy and Practice, Arnetha Ball and Robert Jimenez -- Repositioning Online Reading To A Central Location In The Language Arts, Lisa Kervin, Jessica Mantei, and Donald J. Leu -- Language Arts Learning in Multimodal and Multilingual Contexts, Angie Zapata, Tasha Tropp Laman, and Amy Seely Flint -- It is About Time for Comprehensive Language Arts Instruction (We’ve Tried Everything Else!), Patricia Cunningham and James Cunningham -- Language Arts Instruction in Middle and High School Classrooms, Allison Skerrett and Amber Warrington -- I Know I Can!: Teacher Self-efficacy in the English Language Arts Classroom, Megan Tschannen-Moran, Denise Johnson, and Bronwyn MacFarlane -- Epilogue and New Directions: P. David Pearson and Mary Lisette Lopez

It brings together leading scholars, researchers, and professional leaders to offer an integrated perspective on teaching English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in this field. This new edition, reflecting important advances since the publication of the third edition in 2010, is simplified and completely restructured around "big ideas" in the field related to theoretical and research foundations, learners in context, and new literacies.