Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction

While current educational technologies have the potential to fundamentally enhance literacy education, many of these tools remain unknown to or unused by today's practitioners due to a lack of access and support. Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction presents actionable information to educators, administrators, and researchers about available educational technologies that provide adaptive, personalized literacy instruction to students of all ages. These accessible, comprehensive chapters, written by leading researchers who have developed systems and strategies for classrooms, introduce effective technologies for reading comprehension and writing skills.

Scott A. Crossley is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University, USA. Danielle S. McNamara is Professor in Cognitive and Learning Sciences and ISTL Senior Investigator at Arizona State University, USA.

- Educational Technologies and Literacy Development by Scott A. Crossley and Danielle S. McNamara - Challenges and Solutions when Using Technologies in the Classroom by Amy M. Johnson, Matthew E. Jacovina, Devin G. Russell, and Christian M. Soto Section I: Reading and Comprehension Technologies for the Classroom - Assessment-to-Instruction (A2i)-An Online Platform for Supporting Individualized Early Literacy Instruction by Sarah W. Ingebrand and Carol McDonald Connor - Common Core TERA: Text Ease and Readability Assessor by G. Tanner Jackson, Laura K. Allen, and Danielle S. McNamara - Dynamic Support of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition for Reading (DSCoVAR): An Intelligent Tutor for Contextual Word Learning by Gwen A. Frishkoff, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, SungJin Nam, Leslie Hodges, and Scott A. Crossley - Intelligent Tutoring of the Structure Strategy: A Reading Strategy Tutor by Bonnie J. F. Meyer and Kausalai K. Wijekumar - iSTART-2: A Reading Comprehension and Strategy Instruction Tutor by Erica L. Snow, Matthew E. Jacovina, G. Tanner Jackson, and Danielle S. McNamara - TuinLEC: An Intelligent Tutoring System to Teach Task-Oriented Reading Skills to Young Adolescents by Eduardo Vidal-Abarca, Maria-Ángeles Serrano, Luis Ramos, Laura Gil, and Antonio Ferrer Section II: Writing Technologies for the Classroom - Commercialized Writing Systems by Laura K. Allen and Cecile A. Perret - The Criterion® Online Writing Evaluation Service by Chaitanya Ramineni and Paul Deane - We-Write: A Web-Based Intelligent Tutor for Supporting Elementary Classroom Teachers in Persuasive Writing Instruction by Kausalai K. Wijekumar, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, and Bonnie J. F. Meyer - The Writing Pal: A Writing Strategy Tutor by Scott A. Crossley, Laura K. Allen, and Danielle S. McNamara - Computer-Assisted Research Writing in the Disciplines by Elena Cotos - Writing to Learn and Learning to Write through SWoRD by Christian Schunn Section III: Future Technologies for the Classroom - Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor by Jack Mostow - EMBRACEing Dual Language Learners by Arthur M. Glenberg, Erin A. Walker, and M. Adelaida Restrepo - The Language Muse Activity Palette: Technology for Promoting Improved Content Comprehension for English Language Learners by Jill Burstein and John Sabatini - The Reading Strategy Assessment Tool: A Computer-Based Approach for Evaluation Comprehension Processes during Reading by Joseph P. Magliano, Melissa Ray, and Keith K. Millis - Reading Comprehension Lessons in AutoTutor for the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy by Arthur C. Graesser, Zhiqiang Cai, Whitney O. Baer, Andrew M. Olney, Xiangen Hu, Megan Reed, and Daphne Greenberg - Udio: Rich and Authentic Literacy Experiences for Struggling Middle School Readers by Alyssa R. Boucher, Miriam Evans, and Steve Graham About the Authors Index