基本説明
Considers approaches to adapting the design and selection of texts to reinforce reading skills and provide well-paced challenges for K-6 students at a variety of ability levels.
Full Description
Until now, no single volume has comprehensively examined the crucial question of how to select the most appropriate reading material for beginning or struggling readers. From leading authorities, this book meets an important need by reviewing the best available research on the role of specific text features—including linguistic and conceptual content—in supporting the development of proficient reading. Also explored are ways that teacher scaffolding can help students who have difficulties with particular aspects or types of texts. The book considers approaches to adapting the design and selection of texts to reinforce reading skills and provide well-paced challenges for K-6 students at a variety of ability levels.
Contents
1. The (Mis)Match between Texts and Students Who Depend on Schools to Become Literate, Elfrieda H. Hiebert
I. Frameworks for Creating and Selecting Instructional Texts
2. Decodable Text: Why, When, and How?, Marilyn Jager Adams
3. Repetition of Words: The Forgotten Variable in Texts for Beginning and Struggling Readers, Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Leigh Ann Martin
4. The Challenges of Developing Leveled Texts in and for Developing Countries: The Ithuba Writing Project in South Africa, Misty Sailors, James V. Hoffman, and Mark W.F. Condon
II. Addressing the Content of Texts for Beginning and Struggling Readers: The Role of Informational Texts
5. Text in Hands-On Science, Gina N. Cervetti and Jacqueline Barber
6. Informational Text Difficulty for Beginning Readers, Nell K. Duke and Alison K. Billman
7. Text Modification: Enhancing English Language Learners' Reading Comprehension, Young-Suk Kim and Catherine E. Snow
III. Instructional Strategies for Adapting Texts for Beginning and Struggling Readers
8. Textâ€"Reader Matching: Meeting the Needs of Struggling Readers, Heidi Anne E. Mesmer and Staci Cumming
9. Placing and Pacing Beginning Readers in Texts: The Match between Texts and Children's Knowledge of Words, Kathleen J. Brown
10. When the Right Texts Are Difficult for Struggling Readers, Alison K. Billman, Katherine Hilden, and Juliet L. Halladay
11. Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Text: Research and Practice, Mary E. Curtis
IV. Pulling It Together
12. Teachers Using Texts: Where We Are and What We Need, Anne McGill-Franzen
