Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties
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"The authors have taken a huge amount of research and information, digested it, and organized it into clearly arranged, practical, readable, usable work. This book balances information, suggestions, and examples with reflective exercises that are practical and valuable. It also gives tons of Web sites and resources for more useful tools and tips."
—Mary Guerrette, Director of Special Education
Maine School Administrative District #1, ME
A one-stop source of proven reading strategies to use with RTI!
This second edition of a best-selling resource helps general and special education teachers integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI). Based on the latest research, these practical instructional strategies can be used with students with learning disabilities of any kind as well as with any student who struggles in reading.
This resource provides highly effective strategies for elementary and middle school reading instruction and includes RTI case studies that show how the strategies work within an RTI framework. Focusing on the critical areas of reading instruction identified in the National Reading Panel's report, this book helps educators:
- Implement early literacy and brain-compatible reading instruction and assessment
- Develop phonological and phonemic instruction
- Promote effective progress monitoring in reading
- Build vocabulary and reading fluency
- Boost reading comprehension, especially in the content areas
This vital resource provides teachers with a ready reference of interventions to provide targeted reading instruction for students with learning difficulties.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
- 1. The Reading Brain and Literacy Instruction
- The Good News in Reading Research!
- Big Ideas From Early Literacy Research
- The Emerging Emphasis on Literacy
- Assessments of Early Literacy
- Brain-Compatible Reading Instruction
- A Brain-Based Model of Reading
- What the Brain Research on Reading Has Found
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 2. Phonemic Instruction: The Critical Emphasis in Reading and Literacy
- Phonological Instruction and Phonemic Instruction
- Phonemic Awareness or Phonemic Manipulation
- Guidelines for Phonemic Instruction
- Phonemic-Based Reading Programs
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 3. Phonics and Word Attack Strategies
- Phonics and the Brain
- Phonics Instructional Options
- Strategies for Developmental Reading and Spelling Stages
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 4. Strategies for Building Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
- Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
- Building Vocabulary
- The Importance of Vocabulary Development
- Do We Still Need Sight-Word Approaches for Vocabulary Instruction?
- How Good Readers Read
- Learning New Vocabulary Terms
- Word Recognition Instruction
- Deriving Meaning From Vocabulary
- Learning Strategies for Vocabulary Mastery
- Reading Fluency
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 5. Gaining Meaning From Reading
- Reading Comprehension and the Brain
- Story Grammar
- Student Think-Alouds or Inferencing Substrategies
- Question Answering
- List Summaries
- Improvisational Drama
- Cooperative Discussion and Questioning (Coop-Dis-Q)
- Collaborating Strategic Reading (CSR)
- Bibliotherapy
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 6. Reading Comprehension in the Content Areas
- Content Area Reading and the Brain
- KWPLS (Know, Want to Know, Predict, Learned, Summarize)
- Analogies Instruction
- Possible Sentences
- Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS)
- Guided Reading in Textual Settings (GRITS)
- ReQuest: Asking Self-Declared Questions
- Idea Circles
- Infra-Act: Sharing Perspectives
- Question-Answer Relationships
- Conclusion
Resources: Commercially Available Reading Programs
Resources: Commercially Available Reading Programs
Glossary
Glossary
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"The authors have taken a huge amount of research and information, digested it, and organized it into clearly arranged, practical, readable, usable work. This book balances information, suggestions, and examples with reflective exercises that are practical and valuable. It also gives tons of Web sites and resources for more useful tools and tips."
—Mary Guerrette, Director of Special Education
Maine School Administrative District #1, ME
A one-stop source of proven reading strategies to use with RTI!
This second edition of a best-selling resource helps general and special education teachers integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI). Based on the latest research, these practical instructional strategies can be used with students with learning disabilities of any kind as well as with any student who struggles in reading.
This resource provides highly effective strategies for elementary and middle school reading instruction and includes RTI case studies that show how the strategies work within an RTI framework. Focusing on the critical areas of reading instruction identified in the National Reading Panel's report, this book helps educators:
- Implement early literacy and brain-compatible reading instruction and assessment
- Develop phonological and phonemic instruction
- Promote effective progress monitoring in reading
- Build vocabulary and reading fluency
- Boost reading comprehension, especially in the content areas
This vital resource provides teachers with a ready reference of interventions to provide targeted reading instruction for students with learning difficulties.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
- 1. The Reading Brain and Literacy Instruction
- The Good News in Reading Research!
- Big Ideas From Early Literacy Research
- The Emerging Emphasis on Literacy
- Assessments of Early Literacy
- Brain-Compatible Reading Instruction
- A Brain-Based Model of Reading
- What the Brain Research on Reading Has Found
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 2. Phonemic Instruction: The Critical Emphasis in Reading and Literacy
- Phonological Instruction and Phonemic Instruction
- Phonemic Awareness or Phonemic Manipulation
- Guidelines for Phonemic Instruction
- Phonemic-Based Reading Programs
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 3. Phonics and Word Attack Strategies
- Phonics and the Brain
- Phonics Instructional Options
- Strategies for Developmental Reading and Spelling Stages
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 4. Strategies for Building Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
- Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
- Building Vocabulary
- The Importance of Vocabulary Development
- Do We Still Need Sight-Word Approaches for Vocabulary Instruction?
- How Good Readers Read
- Learning New Vocabulary Terms
- Word Recognition Instruction
- Deriving Meaning From Vocabulary
- Learning Strategies for Vocabulary Mastery
- Reading Fluency
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 5. Gaining Meaning From Reading
- Reading Comprehension and the Brain
- Story Grammar
- Student Think-Alouds or Inferencing Substrategies
- Question Answering
- List Summaries
- Improvisational Drama
- Cooperative Discussion and Questioning (Coop-Dis-Q)
- Collaborating Strategic Reading (CSR)
- Bibliotherapy
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 6. Reading Comprehension in the Content Areas
- Content Area Reading and the Brain
- KWPLS (Know, Want to Know, Predict, Learned, Summarize)
- Analogies Instruction
- Possible Sentences
- Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS)
- Guided Reading in Textual Settings (GRITS)
- ReQuest: Asking Self-Declared Questions
- Idea Circles
- Infra-Act: Sharing Perspectives
- Question-Answer Relationships
- Conclusion
Resources: Commercially Available Reading Programs
Resources: Commercially Available Reading Programs
Glossary
Glossary
Index
Index
Additional materials
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Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties
Strategies for RTI
January 2009 | 272 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412960694 | $46.95 |
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412960687 | $100.95 |
"The authors have taken a huge amount of research and information, digested it, and organized it into clearly arranged, practical, readable, usable work. This book balances information, suggestions, and examples with reflective exercises that are practical and valuable. It also gives tons of Web sites and resources for more useful tools and tips."
—Mary Guerrette, Director of Special Education
Maine School Administrative District #1, ME
A one-stop source of proven reading strategies to use with RTI!
This second edition of a best-selling resource helps general and special education teachers integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI). Based on the latest research, these practical instructional strategies can be used with students with learning disabilities of any kind as well as with any student who struggles in reading.
This resource provides highly effective strategies for elementary and middle school reading instruction and includes RTI case studies that show how the strategies work within an RTI framework. Focusing on the critical areas of reading instruction identified in the National Reading Panel's report, this book helps educators:
- Implement early literacy and brain-compatible reading instruction and assessment
- Develop phonological and phonemic instruction
- Promote effective progress monitoring in reading
- Build vocabulary and reading fluency
- Boost reading comprehension, especially in the content areas
This vital resource provides teachers with a ready reference of interventions to provide targeted reading instruction for students with learning difficulties.
Table Of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- 1. The Reading Brain and Literacy Instruction
- The Good News in Reading Research!
- Big Ideas From Early Literacy Research
- The Emerging Emphasis on Literacy
- Assessments of Early Literacy
- Brain-Compatible Reading Instruction
- A Brain-Based Model of Reading
- What the Brain Research on Reading Has Found
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 2. Phonemic Instruction: The Critical Emphasis in Reading and Literacy
- Phonological Instruction and Phonemic Instruction
- Phonemic Awareness or Phonemic Manipulation
- Guidelines for Phonemic Instruction
- Phonemic-Based Reading Programs
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 3. Phonics and Word Attack Strategies
- Phonics and the Brain
- Phonics Instructional Options
- Strategies for Developmental Reading and Spelling Stages
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 4. Strategies for Building Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
- Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
- Building Vocabulary
- The Importance of Vocabulary Development
- Do We Still Need Sight-Word Approaches for Vocabulary Instruction?
- How Good Readers Read
- Learning New Vocabulary Terms
- Word Recognition Instruction
- Deriving Meaning From Vocabulary
- Learning Strategies for Vocabulary Mastery
- Reading Fluency
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 5. Gaining Meaning From Reading
- Reading Comprehension and the Brain
- Story Grammar
- Student Think-Alouds or Inferencing Substrategies
- Question Answering
- List Summaries
- Improvisational Drama
- Cooperative Discussion and Questioning (Coop-Dis-Q)
- Collaborating Strategic Reading (CSR)
- Bibliotherapy
- Conclusion
- What's Next?
- 6. Reading Comprehension in the Content Areas
- Content Area Reading and the Brain
- KWPLS (Know, Want to Know, Predict, Learned, Summarize)
- Analogies Instruction
- Possible Sentences
- Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS)
- Guided Reading in Textual Settings (GRITS)
- ReQuest: Asking Self-Declared Questions
- Idea Circles
- Infra-Act: Sharing Perspectives
- Question-Answer Relationships
- Conclusion
- Resources: Commercially Available Reading Programs
- Glossary
- Index