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For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels -- and for their parents, teachers, and tutors -- this book can make a difference. Dr. Shaywitz demystifies the subject of reading difficulties and explains how a child can be helped to become a good reader. She discusses early diagnosis in young children as well as the diagnosing of older children, young adults, and adults....
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"Multiple Paths to Literacy approaches reading assessment and learning from a multiple-intelligences perspective. This perspective helps teachers understand students' varied strengths, needs, and learning styles and provides teachers with analytical techniques for helping all students learn more effectively." "The first section of the book provides important foundations for assessment and analytic teaching; the second section offers concrete instructional...
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Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers is a 'ready reckoner' that gives the teacher/guardian a condensed and selective source of current knowledge. The author interprets the topic in terms of PASS (Planning-Attention-Simultaneous-Successive) processes, which are the four main processes of knowing and thinking that replace the traditional views of IQ and redefine intelligence. For the school psychologist, this book is an...
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"Timely and accessible, this book provides nuts-and-bolts information and guidance for reading specialists in grades K-12 as well as those preparing for certification. The focus is on the many responsibilities of today's reading specialist, from teaching individual students to taking a leadership role in the schoolwide literacy program."--Jacket.
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Colleges created remedial education classes to ensure students were sufficiently prepared for more advanced material. But increasingly, there's a sense that remedial courses are hurting the prospects of the students they are intended to help. As a result, some California colleges and high schools are rethinking their approach to teaching math -- with encouraging results. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
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"Using Literature to Support Skills and Critical Discussion for Struggling Readers: Grades 3-9 emphasizes the development of higher-level thinking skills and critical discussion with struggling readers in intermediate and middle school. Williams uses quality children's literature as a springboard to help readers: understand and use descriptive vocabulary and figurative language; make personal connections with text; create and solve text-related mathematical...
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"Meeting a key need, this is the first comprehensive guide to implementing a schoolwide response to intervention (RTI) program. The book is geared to helping practitioners understand and respond to No Child Left Behind and to the new special education eligibility guidelines outlined in IDEIA 2004. Presented are the theoretical and empirical foundations of the approach and a clear, 10-step model for conducting RTI procedures with students experiencing...
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Publisher's description: This helpful resource for parents, teachers, librarians, and others offers guidance in the selection and use of quality children's literature appropriate for young readers--primary through junior high grades--who have reading difficulties. More than a list of recommended titles, this resource addresses questions parents frequently ask, defines terms such as auditory memory, decoding, and word retrieval problems, and explains...
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