• ISBN13: 9780471366744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: April 6, 2001
• Pages: 448
• Original Price: USD 87.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

About the Book This comprehensive text presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. The third edition of this text focuses primarily on the role of literacy in subject area learning. The author clearly and comprehensively details the may ways that literacy-reading and writing-interact with and support learning.

Martha Ruddell is Professor of Education and a member of the Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education department at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In addition to this text, Dr. Ruddell is the co-editor of Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, and has published numerous articles for professional journals, including Reading Online. Dr. Ruddell is Past President of the National Reading Conference, and in 1996 she was elected to membership in the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame.