The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

Stephen D. Krashen

Libraries Unlimited, 1993 - Education - 119 pages

This powerful treatise is one every librarian, teacher, administrator, and parent concerned with a child's success should read. Krashen argues that free voluntary reading (FVR) is the most effective tool available for increasing a child's ability to read, write, spell, and comprehend. Whether the medium is the comics, teen romances, the sports page, or literature, reading is the key to linguistic improvement. In support of this argument, Krashen presents the cumulation of years of research from many different countries.

Contents

• The Cure: 33
• Other Issues and Conclusions: 69
• References: 91
• Researcher Index: 109
• Subject Index: 115

About the author

Stephen Krashen is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. He is best known for his work in establishing a general theory of second language acquisition, as the cofounder of the Natural Approach, and as the inventor of sheltered subject matter teaching. He is the author of numerous books, including Three Arguments Against Whole Language and Why They Are Wrong (1999), Every Person a Reader: An Alternative to the California Task Force Report on Reading (1997), and Under Attack: The Case Against Bilingual Education (1997), all available from Heinemann.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research
• Author: Stephen D. Krashen
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 28, 2009
• ISBN: 1563080060, 9781563080067
• Length: 119 pages
• Subjects: Education / Research; Education / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy; Literary Criticism / Books & Reading