Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult / Edition 4

by Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Gay Fawcett

Overview

Offering the latest intervention strategies and activities to develop and strengthen the reading skills of struggling readers,Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult by Tim Rasinski, Nancy Padak, and Gay Fawcett seamlessly weaves together classroom approaches to capitalize on individual students’ strengths and their abilities to access phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. New strategies provide teachers with tips for teaching English language learners and more ideas for incorporating technology into instruction. Paired with the new book club study guide questions, this edition is perfect for learning communities and professional development workshops.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132337182
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	03/17/2009
Series:	Pearson Custom Education Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor of education in the department of teaching, leadership, and curriculum studies at Kent State University, as well as an editor for the Journal of Literacy Research. His books include From Phonics to Fluency and the Evidence Based Instruction in Reading series.

Nancy Padak, a past College Reading Association President, is a Distinguished Professor of Education at Kent State University, where she directs the Reading and Writing Center and teaches graduate courses in literacy education. She has worked in both middle and high schools and is the co-author of From Phonics to Fluency and the Evidence Based Instruction in Reading series.

Gay Fawcett has been in education for 35 years as a teacher, principal, language arts consultant, and curriculum director. She also directed Kent State University’s Research Center for Educational Technology. She is currently an independent consultant. She has authored and/or co-authored more than 80 articles, books, and book chapters for educational publications including the Kappan, Educational Leadership, Language Arts, The Reading Teacher, and others. She also served with Rasinski and Padak as an associate editor of The Reading Teacher.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents for Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult

Chapter 1-Setting the Stage for Helping Struggling Readers

Chapter 2-Determining Instructional Needs: Assessing Readers in Action

Chapter 3- Creating an Instructional Framework

Chapter 4- Developing Positive Attitudes About Reading

Chapter 5- Preventing Reading Problems Through Early Literacy Experiences

Chapter 6- Overcoming Difficulties in Word Recognition

Chapter 7- Developing Fluent Reading in Struggling Readers

Chapter 8- Building Deep and Wide Vocabularies in Struggling Readers

Chapter 9- Developing Comprehension with Narrative Text

Chapter 10- Developing Comprehension with Informational Text

Chapter 11- Writing Development

Chapter 12-Putting It All Together: Developing Instructional Systems and Routines That Work for Students who Struggle in Reading

Chapter 13- Involving Parents in Children’s Reading