Overcoming Barricades to Reading: A Multiple Intelligences Approach

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This exciting resource helps teachers capitalize on the individual strengths of their students to unlock the door to literacy.

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Overview

This exciting resource helps teachers capitalize on the individual strengths of their students to unlock the door to literacy.

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Editorial Reviews

Carlos Cortes
“Sue Teele has provided a compelling challenge to the stultifying one-size-fits-all approach to the teaching of reading. Her book is a bold and worthy entry in this critical national educational debate.”
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780761931409
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • Publication date: 1/28/2004
  • Series: 1-Off Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 232
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 10.00 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Sue Teele, Ph D is the author of several books, including The Multiple Intelligences School: A Place for All Students to Succeed, and a spatial inventory, The Teele Inventory for Multiple Intelligences. She is the Director of Education Extension at the University of California, Riverside, where she administers over 20 different programs for 8,000 to 10,000 educators a year. She created the first and only certificate in the study of multiple intelligences in the world. She is also the director of the Renaissance Project, a research study that examines the theory of multiple intelligences and its impact in the educational setting.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
About the author
1 Introduction 1
2 The theory of multiple intelligences : a vehicle for learning 13
3 The relationship of the brain to teaching reading 27
4 The process of learning to read 47
5 The reading process : how children learn to read 67
6 Comprehension and writing skills 91
7 Structural techniques that assist students in improving decoding, comprehension, and writing skills 109
8 Strategies for integrating the theory of multiple intelligences into teaching reading 129
9 Teaching reading to English language learners 159
10 Conclusions 187
References 193
Index 203
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