2. ROBERT B. RUDDELL
UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA –
BERKELEY (EMERITUS),
OAKLAND, CA, USA
INSTERNATIONAL
READING
ASSOCIATION
3. 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.
4.
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.
5. 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
6. 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
7. Recipient of the Indiana University Citation
Award
Been president of the reading hall of fame and
has served on the IRA board of directors
8. 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
9.
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.
10. 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.
11.
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
12. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16.
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
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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 undersigned, could add that he also rather enjoyed
teaching his co-authors
20.
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 15year period. It remains the single most
impressive guide to reading theory in the
English language.
21.
Harry Singer will be remembered for his
intellect, for his intensity, and for his warmth
and caring of close friends and graduate
students
