Full Description
This work is a game-changer! Recognizing an all too often tragic outcome ("School to Prison Pipeline"), it provides the tools to alter prognosis. Attention hones the identification and treatment of those underlying and often overlooked causative factors that result in long-term reading failure.
Smart Kids, Struggling Readers. reconsiders the current models and methods for Teaching Reading. It offers creative strategies that support and enhance existing research-based techniques. It provides efficient and effective methods that rapidly ameliorate the overt and subtle interference to skills mastery.
Rapid progress is assured because intervention supports both Academic and Affective needs. The novel instructional plan, Reading In A Nutshell, incorporates the strong intellectual potential bright students bring to task. The learner comes to apply information (metacognition, error analysis, instructional options) as a primary functional tool. Slow-paced repetitive practice and drills are avoided.
Contents
Note to the Reader
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Introduction
Chapter 1- The Premise
Chapter 2- The Basics
Chapter 3- The Given
Part II: The Method
Chapter 4- Phonics
Factor 1: Sound Awareness
Factor 2: Letter-Sound Association
a.)Teaching the Vowels
b.)Teaching the Consonants
Factor 3: The Baby Vs. The Bathwater
Chapter 5- Decoding
Factor 1: Linguistic Clusters
Factor 2: Rules and Patterns
Factor 3: Syllable Identification
Chapter 6- Sight Vocabulary
Chapter 7- Contextual Analysis
Chapter 8- Oral Reading
Chapter 9- Fluency
Chapter 10- Comprehension
Chapter 11- Visual Processing
Part One: Books
Part Two: Words
Chapter 12- Phonemic Processing
Chapter 13- Language Processing
Chapter 14- Affective Support
Chapter 15- A Cautionary Tale
Part III: The Practice
Chapter 16- Guidelines
Chapter 17- Application
Chapter 18- Informal Assessment
Appendix
References
Postscript
About the Author
