Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy

Donna E. Alvermann is the University of Georgia Appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education, and holds the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professorship in Education at the University of Georgia, USA. Norman J. Unrau is Professor of Education Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Misty Sailors is Professor of Literacy Education and Director of the Center for the Inquiry of Transformative Literacies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Robert B. Ruddell is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Part 1: Historical 1. Literacies and Their Investigation Through Theories and Models 2. Reading Research and Practice Over the Decades: A Historical Analysis 3. Waves of Theory Building in Writing and its Development, and their Implications for Instruction, Assessment, and Curriculum 4. Marie M. Clay's Theoretical Perspective: A Literacy Processing Theory Part 2: Cognitive and Sociocognitive 5. Reading as a Situated Language: A Sociocognitive Perspective 6. The DRIVE Model of Reading: Deploying Reading in Varied Environments 7. Role of the Reader's Schema in Comprehension, Learning, and Memory 8. To Err Is Human: Learning About Language Processes by Analyzing Miscues 9. Dual Coding Theory: An Embodied Theory of Literacy 10. Revisiting the Construction-Integration Model of Text Comprehension and Its Implications for Instruction 11. A Sociocognitive Model of Meaning-Construction: The Reader, the Teacher, the Text, and the Classroom Context 12. The Role of Motivation Theory in Literacy Instruction 13. Educational Neuroscience for Reading Researchers Part 3: Sociocultural 14. Toward a More Anatomically Complete Model of Literacy Development: A Focus on Black Male Students and Texts 15. Play as the Literacy of Children: Imagining Otherwise in Contemporary Childhoods 16 New Literacies: A Dual-Level Theory of the Changing Nature of Literacy, Instruction, and Assessment Part 4: Critical 17. Regrounding Critical Literacy: Representation, Facts and Reality 18 A Relational Model of Adolescent Literacy Instruction: Disrupting the Discourse of "Every Teacher a Teacher of Reading" 19. Positioning Theory 20. Gender IdentityWOKE: A Theory of Trans*+ness for Animating Literacy Practices 21. Untapped Possibilities: Intersectionality Theory and Literacy Research 22. Re-imagining Teacher Education Part 5: Looking Back, Looking Forward 23. The Transactional Theory of Reading 24. Transactional Reading in Historical Perspective 25. Multilanguaging and Infinite Relations of Dependency: Re-theorizing Reading Literacy from Ubuntu 26. Advancing Theoretical Perspectives on Transnationalism in Literacy Research 27. The Social Practice of Multimodal Reading: A New Literacy Studies–Multimodal Perspective on Reading 28. Enacting Rhetorical Literacies: The Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum in Theory and Practice 29. Propositions from Affect Theory for Feeling Literacy through the Event 30. Pragmatism [not just] Practicality as a Theoretical Framework in Literacy Research