Books by Ruth Garner

Developmental psychologists have been interested in metacognitive phenomena since the early 1970s, while reading researchers have been interested in awareness, monitoring, and strategy use for text-processing as part of a shift in focus from text factors to reader factors in reading.

This work suggests that after-school programs can be an important part of a system of childcare - as long as there are ways to build programs for small and scattered populations as well as for densely packed ones, and as long as the money to fund programs can be found.