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Pearson, P. D. (2009). The roots of reading comprehension instruction. In K. Ganske & D. Fisher (Eds), Comprehension across the curriculum: Perspectives and practices (pp. 279-321). New York: Guilford.
13 The Roots of Reading
Comprehension Instruction P. David Pearson
Even though reading comprehension has been a serious topic of study for psychologists for over 100 years and a goal of reading instruc tion for centuries, it was not until the 1980s that it really started to take hold as a fact of everyday classroom instruction informed by theory and research. And then suddenly, after 15 years of prominence in con
versations of theory, research, and practice—and for a host of reasons,
many having to do with curricular politics (Pearson, 2004, 2007)-reading comprehension was placed on a back burner from the mid-1990s to
the mid-2000s. It is time it returned to a central role in discussions of
reading pedagogy. To assure its return, we will have to give it our rapt and collective attention. And this volume will help to promote just the attention it requires.
Reading comprehension, both its instruction and its assessment, is
arguably the most important outcome of reform movements designed to improve reading curriculum and instruction—or at least it ought to be. The trends over the past 5 or 6 years are encouraging (e.g., Israel & Duffy, 2009; Snow, 2003). The emphasis on comprehension has been reinforced by attention to the plight of older readers, for whom compreThis chapter adapted from S. E. Israel and G. G. Duffy (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension. London: Routiedge. Copyright 2009 by Taylor 8c Francis
Group. Adapted by permission. Many of the concepts in this chapter first appeared in other works, such as Pearson and Stephens (1993), Pearson (2000), or Pearson (2004). 2 7 9