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Tags: Classroom, Literacy, Multiple, Paths, Readers, Struggling, Techniques

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Full of practical ideas and strategies, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced approach to diagnose, assess, and support the literacy development of struggling readers and second language learners. Unique to this book is a philosophical approach that links all literacy domains with the eight recognized multiple intelligences. This serves as a springboard for identifying appropriate instructional strategies to meet individual student needs.

Multiple Paths to Literacy: Classroom Techniques for Struggling Readers, K-12

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Tags: Parents, Readers, Reading, Reluctant, Tips

Education is more than just what students learn in school. Education begins at home where parents are the first primary teachers. Parents therefore should never have a hands off approach about any part of their child’s education. In fact children who are struggling in school need the support of their parents more than ever. The trouble is most parents are never quite sure exactly what they can do to help. This article focuses on struggling readers and what parents can do at home to help their children.

There are certain strategies that teacher’s use in the classroom that can be adapted…

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How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers

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BOYS OR GIRLS – WHO ARE BETTER READERS

Michael Rutter, MD of King’s College in London, and colleagues looked at four large studies of children’s reading abilities (DeNoon, 2004). Their findings concluded that reading disabilities are clearly more frequent in boys than in girls. “It appears that throughout the English – speaking world … boys are more likely than girls to have a reading disability,” Rutter and colleagues write. They encourage further study in this regard leaving its reason undetermined (ibid.).

In Pakistan, the social status of a girl child and a boy is clearly distinct, which, unfortunately, is also visible in…

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This simple, research-proven early intervention program builds reading proficiency, word recognition, and overall comprehension. Ten minutes each night, parents and children engage in repeated, guided reading of poems just right for early readers, then do a quick, skill-building activity. Plus, 30 stickers, tips on involving families, and reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs!

Fast Start For Early Readers: A Research-Based, Send-Home Literacy Program With 60 Reproducible Poems and Activities That Ensures Reading Success for Every Child

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Aims to shed new light on the issue of literacy in America, providing a social history that broadens the definition of literacy, considering who was reading what, under what circumstances and for what purposes. The book assesses trends in Americans’ reading abilities and reading habits.

Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880

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Reading with Rhythm and Rhyme!

The message in Creating Readers with Poetry is simple and strong: Poetry helps children learn to read!

In this innovative resource, Nile Stanley offers you teaching techniques that transform reading from a two-dimensional world of boredom and frustration into a three-dimensional world of voice, movement, and artistic expression. He shows you how poetry supports the teaching of reading and allows students to relax and blossom.

His mini-lessons and engaging activity poems provide standards-based reading instruction that also builds community, confidence, and enthusiasm. He includes a CD of sung and spoken poetry performed by noted children’s poets…

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Tags: About, Kids, Read, Readers, Reluctant, Some

When I was a little girl, I watched my parents and my grandparents read… a lot. If you’re as old as I am, you probably had the same experience. I figured that if they read, then I should read too. Most kids learn by imitating parents and siblings. I had no siblings so I did what my parents did. I became an early reader and a voracious reader.

Fast forward 2009: Our grandson Caleb spent last year with us. He’s 2-3 years behind in reading. Sees no reason why he or anybody else would need to read, must less WANT to…

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Do your kids avoid reading because it isn’t cool?  Maybe you’re more in tune than I am, but I was startled when my grandson informed me that reading isn’t cool.

Discovering Reading isn’t Cool

It first started when he got home from school one day without the book he was supposed to read. I figured it was yet another way to get out of the requisite 15-minute evening reading requirement. I cut him off at the pass right away: “Well, Caleb, guess you’ll have to read one of my books like Harry Potter.”  But he’s not reading Harry Potter, even the 1st…

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Tags: Contexts, English, Readers, Students, teaching, texts

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A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL and EFL educators, this frontline text balances insights from current reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and assessing L2 reading in secondary and post-secondary contexts. Teaching Readers of English:

• Provides a through yet accessible survey of L2 reading theory and research

• Addresses the unique cognitive and socioeducational challenges encountered by L2 readers
• Covers the features of L2 texts that teachers of reading must understand
• Acquaints readers with methods for designing reading courses, selecting curricular materials, and planning instruction
• Explores the essential role of systematic vocabulary development in teaching L2 literacy
• Includes practical…

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