Julie Rak: 2 books

Introduction Identifying the Memoir Industry - Julie Rak This chapter introduces the memoir boom as an effect of the publishing and bookselling industries, and creates a theory of genre to explain how popular non-fiction reading has become. It argues for taking serioulsy the production,...

How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...