ABSTRACT

Every teacher of reading plays a vital role in helping to catch those readers for whom learning to read does not come easily. Through examples from both adults and children, the authors explain and describe the complex integrated network of strategies that go on in the minds of proficient readersstrategies that struggling readers have to learn in order to construct their own reading processes. This book is essential reading for all who work with struggling readers in any context and contains a wealth of resources, including a thorough explanation of all the sources of information readers use to solve words, examples and scenarios of teacher/student interactions, prompts to use with struggling readers, lessons on modeling, and assessment guidelines.

chapter Chapter 1|7 pages

Expanding Our Paradigm of Reading

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

How Reading Works

chapter Chapter 3|22 pages

Vygotsky Takes a Seat in Our Classrooms

chapter Chapter 4|19 pages

Beyond “Sound It Out”

chapter Chapter 5|26 pages

A Comprehensive Literacy Framework

chapter Chapter 6|10 pages

Interactive Read-Aloud: Talking Our Way Through Texts

chapter Chapter 7|24 pages

I Thought I Knew How to Teach Reading, but Whoa!

chapter Chapter 8|25 pages

Comprehension: The Bottom Line

chapter Chapter 9|22 pages

Spotlight on Inferring and Summarizing

chapter Chapter 10|19 pages

Assessment: Looking Closely at Readers

chapter Chapter 11|21 pages

Sharing Information with Families

chapter Chapter 12|6 pages

Teachers Make the Difference