Reading connections : strategies for teaching students with visual impairments / Cheryl Kamei-Hannan and Leila Ansari Ricci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamei-Hannan, Cheryl, 1973- author.

Ricci, Leila Ansari, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blind children--Education.

Blind children.

Blind children--Education (Elementary).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : AFB Press, 2015.

Summary:

Reading Connections: Strategies for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments is a hands-on resource for teachers and professionals seeking to improve the reading skills of their students. It addresses the essential components of reading - phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension - and provides targeted teaching strategies for each component. Reading Connectionsaddresses the needs of students who read print, braille, or both and is consistent with strategies for teaching reading to students who have, or are at risk for, developing reading disabilities.

Contents:

Components of reading: making the connections

Foundations of reading

Impact of visual impairments on reading

Understanding reading instruction

Assessment of students' performance in reading

Teaching the components: putting the pieces together

Teaching phonemic awareness

Teaching phonics and decoding

Teaching reading fluency

Teaching vocabulary

Teaching reading comprehension

Additional components of reading

Kamei-Hannan and Ansari Ricci reading assessment

Assessment tools.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-89128-636-5

OCLC:

906798543