Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult - Couverture souple

Rasinski, Timothy V.; Padak, Nancy D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0130996696 ISBN 13 : 9780130996695

Editeur : Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

This text is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate Reading Diagnosis and Remediation courses, courses in meeting individual needs in reading, or as a supplement in clinical courses.

This practical text clearly defines the reading and writing process and demonstrates how to assist students with reading difficulties. It offers an easy-to-read format that includes an extensive and rich digest of instructional strategies that have been proven effective in helping children who experience difficulty in learning to read. Strategies and stories in teachers' voices help make this book useful and inviting.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Timothy Rasinksi and Nancy Padak are Professors of Curriculum and Instruction at Kent State University, where they teach courses in literacy education.  They also served as editors of The Reading Teacher, the most widely read professional journal in reading education, and currently edit the Journal of Literacy Research.

Previously a classroom and Title I teacher in Nebraska, Tim Rasinski received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and has taught at the University of Georgia.  He has written and edited several books on literacy education.  Tim has also conducted research and written many articles on reading and writing educatioin published in Reading Research Quarterly, Reading Psychology, and Education Forum.

Nancy Padak received her Ed.D. from Northern Illinois University, and has worked as a classroom teacher, Title I administrator, and a school district reading and language arts curriculum director in Illinois.  She is Director of the University Reading and Writing Center at Kent State and Principal Investigator at the Ohio Literacy Resource Center.  Nancy was recently named Distinguished Professor by Kent State University.

Tim and Nancy have worked extensively with children in public schools and in university reading clinics who have experienced difficulty in learning to read.  The reading clinical program that they direct won an Ohio's Best Award for its innovative practices in helping children learn to read. 

Quatrième de couverture

Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult, Third Edition, offers the teaching community a wealth of instructional strategies and activities. This text is aimed at strengthening and developing the reading skills of children who find the subject hard to grasp, including those for whom English is a second language. The broad-based remedial and corrective reading instruction focuses on several areas: phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers can combine and modify the various reading strategies and activities to fit their current curricula.

Other features of this text:

• A clear focus on scientifically based research, including summaries of the National Reading Panel's findings and compliance strategies for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ("No Child Left Behind").
• Professional commentary—Real teachers' opinions and classroom experiences interwoven with the strategies and activities illustrating their application in today's classrooms.
• High-Frequency Words—Appendix O provides a listing of common words for instructional focus.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0130996696
• ISBN 13: 9780130996695
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 343
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie