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DEVELOPMENTAL READING

ENGL 3

ROBERT B. RUDDELL

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA –

BERKELEY (EMERITUS),

OAKLAND, CA, USA INSTERNATIONAL

READING ASSOCIATION

Bob Ruddell is Professor Emeritus of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Faculty Group at the University of California at Berkeley

He has taught credential and graduate courses in reading and language development and directed the Advanced Reading-Language Leadership Program at Berkeley.

He served as Chair of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Faculty Group for a number of years.  During his tenure at the University of California, at Berkeley, he worked closely with his 86 EdD. and PhD.doctoral students, advising and directing their research and dissertations to completion.

He has lectured and conducted workshops for teachers in each of the 50 states, as well as in England, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the Ivory Coast.

Bob is the recipient of the International Reading Association’s William S. Gray Citation of Merit, recognizing lifetime achievement and leadership contributions to the field of reading and literacy development

ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!!

The Oscar S. Causey Research Award from the National Reading Conference for his research on effective and influential literacy teachers

Marcus Foster Memorial Reading Award from the California Reading Association for his teaching and research

Recipient of the Indiana University Citation Award

Been president of the reading hall of fame and has served on the IRA board of directors

Professor Ruddell is author of the fifth edition of the widely used literacy methods text How to Teach Reading to Elementary and Middle School Students: Practical Ideas from Highly Effective Teachers (2009). He is senior editor (with Norm Unrau) of Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading

His research and teaching interests focus on the study of comprehension and critical thinking, word identification strategies, reading motivation, and ways in which highly effective and influential teachers develop these skills with their students.

MARTHA RAPP RUDDELL

Martha Rapp Ruddell is Professor and Dean Emerita of The School Of Education at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California

Ruddell is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and continues actively as a researcher, author, and presenter at professional conferences.

A past president of the National Reading Conference, which honored her in 2003 with the Al Kingston Service Award, Dr. Ruddell is a member of the California Reading Association's Hall of Fame and was recently named Distinguished Alumna by the University of Missouri, Kansas City

TEACHING CONTENT READING AND WRITING

Ready to implement theory, strategy and guidelines for achieving success in the classroom. Introduces over 50 instructional strategies and activities. Emphasizes the current and future realities of adolescent lives, secondary classrooms, and academic trends. Discusses iPods, podcasts, IM, blog readers and other new technologies.

Harry Singer, Education: Riverside

1925-1988Professor

Harry Singer was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up in a Jewish family of modest means.

On September 4, 1925, he was the second of three sons. The family's economic plight during the depression years required the boys to engage in even more part-time employment than was typical of youth in the neighborhood.

After attending the public schools of Cleveland, Harry entered Case Western Reserve University in 1945 as a psychology major.

Harry's keen intelligence and tenacity enabled him to work his way through college, completing his B.S. degree in psychology in 1949.

Having impressed his college instructors, Harry stayed on at Western Reserve, and by 1952 completed his M.A. degree, also in psychology

Following two years of elementary school teaching in Oakland, Harry plunged into graduate study, completing the Ph.D. in educational psychology under Professor Holmes in 1960

Award for Research and Distinguished Service to that organization in 1984. Among his other awards were the Albert J. Harris Award for an article, “IQ is and is not related to reading,” presented by the International Reading Association in 1975.

With his close and long time colleague Irving Balow, Harry became the first faculty recipient of the University of California's Presidential Research Awar.d for School Improvement.

His major publications were his books, beginning with Speed and Power of Reading in High School with his mentor Jack Holmes in 1966.

Singer became known during the middle and late 1960s for their “substrata-factor theory of reading,” a controversial theory which aroused considerable interest among reading scholars of the day.

Harry frequently differentiated between “teaching his colleagues” and “teaching students.” Those of us who co-authored works with him, including all of the under-signed, could add that he also rather enjoyed teaching his co-authors

By 1970 Singer and Robert Ruddell, his Berkeley colleague, compiled the leading theoretical orientations to their field in one major book. Published as Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, the book went through three editions over a 15-year period. It remains the single most impressive guide to reading theory in the English language.

Harry Singer will be remembered for his intellect, for his intensity, and for his warmth and caring of close friends and graduate students