Project Activities
The steering committee for this project consisted of eleven members, including one representative from each RFU team, NAEd members, and other reading experts. The committee met three times over the course of the project to: (1) articulate findings and common themes across RFU projects; (2) identify obstacles to on-time reading achievement and factors that support success; (3) examine cross-project findings to identify areas of agreement; and (4) find common principles underlying instructional programs across projects.
The committee identified three major "headlines" of the RfU initiative:
- Knowledge is cause, consequence, and covariate of reading comprehension
- Language drives every facet of reading comprehension
- Reading is an inherently cultural activity
People and institutions involved
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Products and publications
Product: In the report, the committee elaborates upon those "headlines" and summarizes findings along the three major strands of the RfU initiative: the nature and development of comprehension, reading comprehension assessment, and curriculum and instruction. The full report is available on the project website.
Publication
Pearson, P. D., Palincsar, A. S., Biancarosa, G., & Berman, A. I. (Eds.). (2020). Reaping the Rewards of the Reading for Understanding Initiative. Washington, DC: National Academy of Education.
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