Prologue : linking the new with the old : how are familiar comprehension skills and strategies related to executive skills?
Executive skills : what are they, and why are they important for developing thinking readers?
Plans and goals : getting ready to read
Organization : why text and reader organization matter
Cognitive flexibility : juggling multiple aspects of reading
Working memory : holding and linking ideas in mind while reading
Inhibition and impulse control : resisting distractions to support comprehension
Social understanding : the importance of mind reading for reading comprehension
Executive skills, word recognition, and dyslexia : cracking the code is complicated, too
Appendix A. Rubric for assessing executive skills in observations of your students' reading behavior
Appendix B. List of games that require behaviors related to the executive skills described in this book
Appendix C. List of executive skill-based intervention studies that resulted in improvements in reading.