Beck,+Isabel

Submitted by: Vanessa Velasco  Beck’s Profile: § ** In 1953 received Bachelor of Science Elementary Teacher ** § ** In 1963 she received her Masters of Science ** § ** In 1973 she received her Ph.D ** § ** She is part of the National Academy of Education ** § ** She is a professor at this University ** § ** She has written about 100 articles and several books on decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension, ** § ** She has also won many awards **
 *  Received all of her degrees at the ****University **** of ****Pittsburg ****: **
 * -Oscar S. Causey Award **
 * -Member of the International Reading Association’s Hall of Fame **
 * -William S. Gray Citation **


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 * __Beck’s Work and Books __**<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Different ways for Different Goals, But Keep Your Eye on the Higher Verbal Goals. **<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0)">

<span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Storytown: Winning Catch (GRADE 4 THEME 3) <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"> <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Making Sense of Phonics : The Hows and Whys <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">
 * Improving Comprehension With Questioning the Author **
 * <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0)">[|Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples] **

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 * <span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction **<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">
 * Issues in the Advancement of Vocabulary Instruction: Response to Stahl and ** **<span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Fairbanks ****<span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">’s Meta-analysis. **

<span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Talk: Capturing the Benefits of Read-Aloud Experiences for Young Children **<span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Scholastic Professional Paper by Isabel Beck **<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">


 * <span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Instructional program by Isabel Beck and coauthor Margaret G. McKeown **<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">

<span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"> <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Trophies - Lead the Way: Grade 4 <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0)">[[|[[|[[|[|http://www.campusi.com/search.pl?cat=book&op=group&group_by=id&store_id=&browse_value=&q=author%3DIsabel%2520L.%2520Beck&rq=&nq=&lang=en-us&search_country=us&shipto=us¤cy=usd&limit=10&nw=y&use_ajax=1&rcount=0&sort=group_count:desc&is_frm=&start=1]0]]</span]]]]]]>

<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Study Review <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> [|Increasing Young Low-Income Children's Oral Vocabulary Repertoires through Rich and Focused Instruction] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Summary <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">
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 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">This articles’ abstract was about improving the vocabulary of low-income children. Teachers used different sub groups. They were assessed by being shown pictures and selecting the correct word. They also provided oral descriptions of the words and they were to choose what word was accurate. The group with more vocabulary instruction demonstrated the most gains. **

<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: Arial"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">This article describes our attempts to transform knowledge from classroom implementations into resources, which we call Accessibles, to support teachers' implementation of Questioning the Author (QtA), an instructional approach aimed at building students' understanding of what they read. We developed 25 Accessibles, which are brief, single-issue documents available for teachers to use on their own. Each Accessible presents examples of classroom interactions and explicates how those interactions exemplify QtA issues or solutions to issues. In this article we report the results of a field test to document the effects of the Accessibles. Six teachers implemented QtA in their classrooms in reading and social studies over 7 months. Transcripts of videotaped lessons, collected before the teachers began QtA, and QtA lesson transcripts were analyzed for patterns of classroom discourse interactions in terms of the kinds of questions asked, students' responses, and teachers' rejoinders to students. Results showed that use of the Accessibles changed classroom discourse from teacher dominated and focused on retrieving information to discourse shared by students and teacher and focused on building ideas from text. Interviews that probed teachers about their attitudes toward and use of the Accessibles indicated that the majority of the time teachers found the Accessibles useful. We also present teachers' comments about the Accessibles, which provide insight into aspects of the Accessibles that they found particularly helpful. Finally, we discuss themes underlying the Accessibles in terms of their potential for other approaches to teaching for understanding. ** Note: ** The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> [|McCandliss, Bruce]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">; [|Beck] [|,] [|Isabel] [|L] [|.]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">; [|Sandak, Rebecca]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">; [|Perfetti, Charles]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">. [|Focusing Attention on Decoding for Children with Poor Reading Skills: Design and Preliminary Tests of the Word Building Intervention.] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Examines the reading skills of children who have deficient decoding skills in the years following the first grade and traces their progress across 20 sessions of a decoding skills intervention called <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Word  Building  <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">. Presents results in terms of the consequences of not fully engaging in alphabetic decoding during early reading experience, and the self-teaching role of alphabetic decoding for improving word identification, reading comprehension, and phonological awareness skills. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">3. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> [|Beck] [|,] [|Isabel] [|L] [|.]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">; [|McKeown, Margaret G.]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">; [|Kucan, Linda]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">. [|Taking Delight in Words: Using Oral Language To Build Young Children's Vocabularies] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Describes how pre-kindergarten through elementary teachers can enhance the vocabulary development of young children, focusing on teaching words from texts that are read aloud to children rather than read by children. Examines sequenced activities for teaching words to young children and activities that encourage children to interact with words, taking into account the kind of supports that young children need to make sense of those words. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  [|Beck] [|,] [|Isabel] [|L] [|.]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">; [|McKeown, Margaret G.]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> [|Questioning the Author: Making Sense of Social Studies.] <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Abstract: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Describes reading-comprehension technique called "Questioning the Author," which focuses on teaching students to concentrate on building understanding of the ideas in the text. Provides examples of this reading-comprehension technique in geography and history. (PKP) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">
 * <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">4-Studies **
 * <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">1. **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> [|McKeown, Margaret G.] ; [|Beck] [|, Isabel L.] [|Transforming Knowledge into Professional Development Resources: Six Teachers Implement a Model of Teaching for Understanding Tex] t.
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