Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties book cover

Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties book cover

2nd Edition

Education Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties

Copyright Yr 2015

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Book Description

This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--peculiarly those at chance for reading difficulties--sympathize and acquire new noesis from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, consummate with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes means to appraise comprehension, build the skills that adept readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features idea-provoking discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic organizers can exist downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 one/2" x 11" size.

New to This Edition
*Chapters on content-area literacy, English language linguistic communication learners, and intensive interventions.
*Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehension.
*Discusses means to align instruction with the Mutual Core Land Standards.
*Additional instructional activities throughout.

Tabular array of Contents

1. Overview of Reading Comprehension
2. Assessing Reading Comprehension
3. Vocabulary Education
4. Instructional Practices That Promote Reading Comprehension
v. Promoting Content-Expanse Literacy
6. Supporting English language Linguistic communication Learners with Learning Difficulties
vii. Intensive Interventions for Students with Meaning Reading Comprehension Difficulties
8. Multicomponent Approaches to Strategy Instruction
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Biography

Janette Chiliad. Klingner, PhD, until her expiry in 2014, was Professor of Bilingual Special Didactics at the Academy of Colorado Boulder. Her principal areas of research were reading comprehension strategy instruction in various, inclusive secondary science and social studies classes; professional person development that enhances teacher quality in diverse, inclusive classrooms; response to intervention for English language learners (ELLs); and the disproportionate representation of students of colour in special teaching. She authored or coauthored more than 130 articles, books, and book chapters. Dr. Klingner was past president of the Division of Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Vice President of the International Academy for Inquiry on Learning Disabilities, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Learning Disabilities. She was a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Distinguished Researcher Laurels from the Special Didactics Research Special Interest Group of AERA.

Sharon Vaughn, PhD, holds the H. Eastward. Hartfelder/Southland Corporation Regents Chair in Human Development at the University of Texas at Austin and is Executive Director of the Meadows Middle for Preventing Educational Gamble. She has written numerous books and research articles that address the reading and social outcomes of students with learning difficulties, and is currently investigating effective interventions for students with reading difficulties and students who are ELLs. Dr. Vaughn has served every bit Editor-in-Master of the Journal of Learning Disabilities and coeditor of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. She has received the Career Enquiry Accolade from CEC, the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Special Education Research Special Interest Group of AERA, the Career Excellence Honour from the University of Texas, and the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Clan.

Alison Boardman, PhD, is Assistant Research Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Bedrock, where she conducts reading intervention research and teaches courses on differentiating instruction for diverse learners. Her research interests include interventions for struggling readers, meeting the needs of diverse learners in general instruction classrooms, and providing effective professional development and coaching. Dr. Boardman was previously a special instruction instructor in pull-out and inclusion settings in uncomplicated and centre schools.

Reviews

I recommend this book for undergraduate and graduate students and practicing teachers who piece of work with students who struggle to empathize or learn from text. The 2nd edition is updated with valuable discussions of implementing the Common Cadre Country Standards, testify-based practices for English language learners, and the distinction betwixt disciplinary literacy and content-area literacy.--Barbara Foorman, PhD, Francis Eppes Professor of Pedagogy and Director, Florida Eye for Reading Research, Florida State University

There are many proficient books out in that location on reading comprehension, and many nearly students who struggle in learning to read. This volume is so welcome--so indispensable--because it manages to accost both issues well and at once. If yous want to know how to successfully teach struggling readers to understand and appreciate what they are reading, this is the book you have been waiting for. --Timothy Shanahan, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum and Didactics, Academy of Illinois at Chicago

Every bit a busy instructor, when I read a volume, I want information technology to be full of useful research and activities that I can implement easily and immediately. Education Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties is just that kind of book. It offers relevant information--organized in a very accessible fashion--that has helped make me a better instructor.--Jasmine McGarr, MSEd, elementary resource teacher, St. Vrain Valley School District, Longmont, Colorado

-_x000D_This is an fantabulous how-to book designed to aid undergraduate and graduate students, likewise as practicing teachers, in extending their cognition of reading comprehension education for hard-to-teach students or those with learning disabilities....Information technology contains proven ideas tor educational activity reading comprehension skills, making information technology a valuable resource....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners. (on the first edition)--Choice Reviews, 2/1/2008