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Help for struggling readers : strategies for grades 3-8 / Michael C. McKenna.
Van Pelt Library LB1050.5 .M3753 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenna, Michael C.
- Series:
- Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reading--Remedial teaching--United States.
- Reading.
- Reading--Remedial teaching.
- United States.
- Reading (Elementary)--United States.
- Reading (Elementary).
- Reading (Middle school)--United States.
- Reading (Middle school).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- This practical book presents an array of research-based instructional strategies for use with struggling readers in the upper-elementary and middle grades. It is filled with proven ideas for engaging students and developing the key components of successful reading: vocabulary, comprehension, word recognition, and fluency. Each chapter reviews techniques for working on specific skills, provides needed materials and teacher-friendly instructional tips, and lists suggestions for further reading. The book's convenient 8 1/2" x 11" format and numerous reproducible charts, graphic organizer templates, and activities make it an exceptionally useful resource for elementary and middle school teachers, reading professionals, and undergraduate- and graduate-level students of education.
- Contents:
- Decoding strategies
- Guiding principles of teaching decoding
- Phonics in the upper grades
- Phonics word sorts
- Tape-recorded text
- Electronic books
- Fluency strategies
- Guiding principles of teaching fluency
- Effective fluency methods
- Classwide peer tutoring
- Self-selected reading
- Vocabulary strategies
- Guiding principles of teaching vocabulary
- Feature analysis
- Graphic organizers
- Semantic maps
- Vocabulary venns
- Semantic scales
- List-group-label
- Concept sorts
- Vocabulary clusters
- Silly questions
- Possible sentences
- Comprehension lesson formats
- Guiding principles of teaching reading comprehension
- Directed reading activity
- Directed reading-thinking activity
- K-w-l
- Listen-read-discuss
- Questioning strategies
- Levels of questions
- Question-answer relationships
- Question clusters
- Reciprocal questioning
- Questioning the author
- Other comprehension strategies
- Specific skill approaches
- Walk-throughs
- Think-alouds
- Imaging
- Teaching with analogies
- Charting new territory
- Guided notes
- Reading guides
- Anticipation guides
- Reciprocal teaching
- Guided reading in textual settings
- Summary writing
- Cloze venns
- Riddles
- Puzzlers
- More ideas for inferential comprehension.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1572307609
- OCLC:
- 49558870
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