The Cognitive Foundations of Reading and Its Acquisition

The Rationale, Focus, Features , and uses of the Book.- Overview of the Cognitive Foundations Framework.- The Cognitive Foundations of Reading.- The Cognitive Foundations of Reading Acquisition.- Summary of the Cognitive Foundations Framework.- Understanding Reading Development and Difficulty.- Understanding Reading across Writing Systems.- Overview of the Main Tools used in Teaching Reading.- Standards and the Cognitive Foundations Framework.- Assessments and the Cognitive Foundations Framework.- Curriculum and Instruction and the Cognitive Foundations Framework.- Using the Cognitive Foundations Framework to Support Struggling Readers.- Using the Cognitive Foundations Framework to Create Coherence in Reading Practices.

Wesley A. Hoover earned his PhD in Human Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin with a specialty in psycholinguistics. He worked at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) for 35 years in the areas of early reading, bilingual reading, language acquisition, and mathematics and science education, leading research, research application, and several large-scale education dissemination and professional development projects. His main research centered on the Simple View of Reading and its cognitive underpinnings and was focused on detailing the specifications and predictions of these conceptual models and testing them in the context of early grade reading. In his last 18 years at SEDL he served as its President and CEO, directing the overall work of some 100 staff supported through competitively won awards; his culminating work at SEDL was leading its 2015 merger with the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Within AIR, he served as ExecutiveVice President and Senior Advisor, working on merger transition issues and special projects within the field of literacy, before retiring in 2019.

William E. Tunmer is Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at the Massey University Institute of Education. He received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979, specializing in the areas of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive development. From 1980 to 1988 he held the positions of Research Fellow, Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. In 1988 he was appointed Professor of Educational Psychology at Massey University, where he served as Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Education. Professor Tunmer has published over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and books on early literacy development, literacy learning difficulties, and reading intervention. He has served on the editorial boards of Reading Research Quarterly,