His work on the psychology of reading has appeared in many professional journals including: Education Literary Discussion Journal of Reading Science Education School Counselor, Florida Education Forum for Reading and University Teaching.ĭescription: Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as confused, self-involved, and stale.
Since 1971 he has been assistant professor of development skills and coordinator for remediation of the Borough of Manhattan community college of The City University of New York. He is the author of You Can Read Faster, Seven Keys to a Richer Vocabulary, and How to Pass Exams. use this author bio: James Schiavone is a leading authority on reading skills and has written widely on the subject. Help Your Child to Read Better is a parents?guide to reading readiness. Obviously, the teacher抯 job is made easier when the child comes to school ready and eager to learn. Reading readiness will help ease and speed the process and set the stage for learning by encouraging the child抯 curiosity and natural desire to learn. Having done this, most parents can spare themselves a lot of needless anxiety if they will just relax and let their children learn to read when they are ready, as they learned to walk and talk. The author believes that the parent still has a primary responsibility for seeing that a child makes the most of his or her capabilities. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.ĭescription: What parent hasn抰 been shocked by accounts of students entering college as functional illiterates? When newspapers publish the yearly reading scores revealing that across the nation youngsters are reading below grade level, the problem strikes very close to home and suddenly the reading difficulties of one抯 own first-grader become a matter of considerable importance. required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction." -American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read." -Rob Latham, SFRA Review ".
Description: " succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come." -Choice ".
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