P. David Pearson

In this project, the National Academy of Education (NAEd) established a working committee charged with developing insights and implications from the Reading for Understanding (RFU) initiative, and to ensure that what has been learned from this initiative is beneficial to education research and practice

The purpose of this study was to develop a model of literacy and science integration and associated curriculum materials to help English language learners (ELLs) in first grade become proficient readers, language users, and comprehenders. Building off an existing program for students in grades 2-5 called Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading, the new curriculum creates an authentic language-rich context in which students have systematic opportunities for reading, writing, talking, and 'doing' sc...

This project will develop and refine an intervention designed to improve reading for struggling readers through explicit comprehension instruction in a content-area context. The intervention, called Literacy Navigator, will teach readers how to build a coherent representation of the informational text they are reading and how to integrate the new content with their existing knowledge. The intervention will be designed for use in remedial classes to help students who have adequate decoding sk...