"The Handbook – this term connotes a touchstone across disciplines and areas, whose function is to capture a field, past, present, and future. The result of an enormous effort, a handbook provides a benchmark at a particular point in time…. Two ingredients are of foundational importance for a well-built handbook: the structure and the writers. The editors of this Handbook have assembled an extraordinary assemblage of authors, each distinguished in his or her own right, but a group that is exceptional for the breadth and comprehensiveness of perspectives that they bring to bear.... This handbook provides an excellent snapshot of the field." -- Robert C. Calfee, From the Foreword
"This book supplies you with easy access to different types of metacognitive assessments?assessments that reveal students? own thinking about the reading process and their use of before-, during-, and after-reading strategies. In addition, you?ll learn how to use the results of these assessments to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of your students? reading abilities and to more effectively create individualized reading instruction."
