Success with Struggling Readers

The Benchmark School Approach
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-59385-169-9
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy

From the founder of the internationally known Benchmark School, this unique book presents a proven approach for helping struggling students become fully engaged readers, learners, thinkers, and problem solvers. Benchmark's research-based Interactive Learning Model is clearly explained and illustrated with teacher-friendly, how-to-do-it examples. Gaskins demonstrates ways to teach effective strategies for decoding words and understanding concepts, and to give students the skills to apply these strategies across the curriculum based on their individual cognitive styles and the specific demands of the task at hand. Comprehensive yet highly readable, the book includes quick-reference charts and reproducible figures and activities that can be used in all subject-matter areas, grades 1 through 8.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaskins, Irene West

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Struggling Readers
1. Searching for Answers to the Why and How of Struggling Readers
2. Introduction to Benchmark's Interactive Learning Model and Person Variables
3. Exploring the Strengths and Challenges of Struggling Readers: Personality, Temperament, Emotion, Motivation, and Volition
4. Exploring the Strengths and Challenges of Struggling Readers: Intelligence, Physical Development, and Health
II. Context and Theories of Learning
5. The Context for Learning: Teacher Knowledge, Classroom Culture, and Instruction
6. The Context for Learning: Sociocultural, Task, and Text Variables
7. Learning Principles about the Interaction of Variables, Explicit Instruction, and Social Activity
8. Learning Principles That Guide Instruction: Developmental, Motivational, and Accountability Issues
9. Learning Principles to Share with Students
III. Classroom Implementation
10. Strategies for Reading Words: Teaching Phonemic Awareness, Decoding, and Fluency
11. Activities That Reinforce Word Detective Practices
12. Comprehension Strategies
13. Explicit Explanations of Comprehension Strategies for Grades 1-8
14. Rationale for Teaching Concepts, Essential Understandings, and Knowledge Structures
Afterword: Five Major Insights from 45 Years of Teaching Struggling Readers

Über Autor(innen)

Irene West Gaskins, EdD, is founder and director of Benchmark School in suburban Philadelphia. She has been honored as a Distinguished Educator by The Reading Teacher and received the International Reading Association's William S. Gray Citation of Merit for lifetime achievement. Her special interest is developing strategies for improving word recognition and comprehension.