Books written by Peggy D. McCardle
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Reading Research in Action: A Teacher's Guide for Student Success
Teachers asked for it: a practical, no-nonsense book that shows them how to use scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in their everyday classroom instruction and improve their students' literacy outcomes....
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Teaching Reading and Writing: Improving Instruction and Student Achievement
This important volume gives educators the foundational knowledge they'll need to plan and deliver high-quality, evidence-based reading and writing instruction aligned with Common Core State Standards.
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The Social Neuroscience of Human-animal Interaction
Clear and accessible, this book is intended for a broad readership that includes clinicians, teachers, and anyone interested in how and why animals affect us the way they do.
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How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Influence of Human-animal Interaction on Child Development and Human Health
The volume ends with a detailed agenda for future research. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to a wide range of researchers and practitioners interested in what happens when people meet and engage with animals.
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Unraveling Reading Comprehension: Behavioral, Neurobiological, and Genetic Components
This urgently needed research volume is the only cohesive, up-to-date compendium of knowledge about the behavioral, neurobiological, and genetic components of reading comprehension.
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The Voice of Evidence in Reading Research
As education professionals work to incorporate scientific, evidence-based practices into reading instruction, one thing is clear: sound decisions depend on a solid understanding of what the research says. This book...
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Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age
This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and ...
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Executive Function in Preschool-age Children: Integrating Measurement, Neurodevelopment, and Translational Research
In this book, top scientists from a variety of fields investigate the development of executive function (EF), a term that encompasses a range of mental processes that together regulate our social behavior and our cognitive and emotional ...
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Animals in Our Lives: Human-animal Interaction in Family, Community, and Therapeutic Settings
This book is the first cohesive resource presenting the research on the positive effects of animal therapies and interactions on child health and development.
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Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research: A Decade of Progress
Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Research: A Decade of Progress
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Advances in Reading Intervention: Research to Practice to Research
This important volume promotes the valuable "research to practice to research" loop, bringing top experts and practitioners together to examine what we know, and what we need to know, about effective reading and writing intervention.