Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties

Description

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title!

A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features include discussion questions in every chapter, and reproducible instructional materials and lesson plans.

Reviews

"An invaluable resource for elementary, middle, and secondary teachers; reading specialists; and special educators who work with students with reading difficulties. The book educates the reader about important components of comprehension and presents evidence-based best practices for classroom instruction. For teachers working with struggling comprehenders, this text is a 'must have.'" - Janice Dole, Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Utah, USA

"The greatest benefit of this book's approach to struggling readers is its focus on the thinking processes of the individual learner. A plethora of ideas and instructional resources are presented in a clear and concise format. As I read this inspiring, appealing book, I learned about many techniques I can't wait to try in the classroom!" - Terri Dimond, fourth-grade teacher, Superior Elementary School, Boulder County (Colorado) School District, USA

"This book interweaves cases, theory, and research-based instructional practices in a dynamic and accessible fashion. Klingner et al. have produced a valuable guide to reading comprehension assessment and instruction with diverse learners." - Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, School of Education, University of Michigan, USA

Contents

Preface. Overview of Reading Comprehension. Assessing Reading Comprehension. Vocabulary Instruction. Text Structure and Reading Comprehension. Instructional Practices that Promote Reading Comprehension. Multicomponent Approaches to Strategy Instruction. Glossary. Websites.

Author Bio

Janette K. Klingner, PhD, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; Sharon Vaughn, PhD, Department of Special Education, University of Texas at Austin, USA and Alison Boardman, PhD, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Related Subjects

1. Learning Difficulties & Mental Retardation in Children & Adolescents
2. Teaching & Learning
3. English & Literacy/Language Arts
4. Dyslexia