Language and Literacy Beyond Decoding

2. Content-Rich Classroom Conversations That Improve Language Comprehension in the Early Grades, Sonia Q. Cabell, C. J. Espittia, & Tricia A. Zucker

3. Gaps and Opportunities for Supporting Language and Comprehension in Early Childhood Classrooms, Shayne B. Piasta, Hyekin Kim, & Yeqing Liu

4. From Ears to Eyes: Supporting Reading Comprehension through Systematic Instruction on Listening Comprehension, Young-Suk Grace Kim

5. Improving Elementary Students’ Reading Comprehension through Structured and Systematic Translation of Research to Practice, Kausalai Kay Wijekumar, Kacee Lambright, Ashley Stack, Javier Garza, & Pilar Sierra

6. Best Practices for Supporting Motivation during Reading Comprehension Instruction, Eunsoo Cho, Sarah Reiley, & Philip Capin

7. Inferencing and Reading Comprehension, Gina Biancarosa

8. Effects of Language Components on Language and Reading Comprehension, Doris Luft Baker, Yixian Huang, Cinthia Berenice Herrera, & Sholeh Moradibavi

9. Hearing Themselves in Books: Using Authentic Children’s Literature to Support the Language of African American Students, Ramona T. Pittman, Endia Lindo, W. McCoy, & Jasmine Rogers

10. Language and Reading Assessment Practices for Multilingual Learners from Spanish-Speaking Homes, Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, Bhabika Joshi, & Phoebe J. Ahn

11. The Role of Language in Reading Comprehension: Instructional Implications for Teachers of Multilingual Learners, C. Patrick Proctor & Rebecca D. Silverman

12. “What If I Don’t Speak Their Languages?”: Engaging Educators and Multilingual Learners in Collaborative Exploration of the Language for School Literacy, Emily Phillips Galloway

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