The text highlights issues of comprehension, vocabulary development, assessment, and second language. In addition, it addresses issues of diversity and ELL students, approaches for sheltered instruction, and the integration of technology into secondary learning and teaching, as well as lifelong reading/writing, using literature in content learning, and teacher professional development. 

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Martha Rapp Ruddell is Professor and Dean Emerita of the School of Education at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In addition to this book, Dr. 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, where she had received the Ph.D. degree.