Teaching Reading for Social Understanding

• In Event: 35.083 - Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: 35.083-1 - Reading Comprehension and Assessment

Abstract

Many children are put at risk of school failure by two problems: the struggle to become successful, engaged readers and the inability to develop complex understandings of themselves and others. The concurrence of these problems results in a range of socio-emotional and academic problems that very often produces adverse effects that persist into adulthood. Children need curriculum that fosters both reading engagement and the development of socio-emotional understandings. In this session, we describe one curricular response to this need called Teaching Reading for Social Understanding, and report results from a study of its implementation.
 

Authors

• Judith T. Lysaker, Purdue University

• Tiffany Sedberry, Purdue University

• Marshall Klassen, Purdue University

• Alice Ying Nie, Purdue University