School-Based Interventions For Struggling Readers, K-8 (Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation, 3) - Softcover

Evan Ortlieb; Leslie David Burns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781906963 ISBN 13: 9781781906965

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2013

Synopsis

The volume highlights best practices of literacy instruction for students who have difficulties in reading. From components of effective pedagogy to instruction for specific populations, this text offers an array of expert perspectives on how to engage, scaffold, and prepare students to meet the multimodal demands of schools today. Renowned authors promote the notion that with thoughtful literacy and purposeful approaches to reading instruction, all children have the ability to improve their reading proficiencies. Core literacy instruction targeting comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing development among others is of particular focus while supplementary discussions of factors such as native language, diversity, inclusion, and learning disabilities fully characterize issues related to struggling readers for which evidence-based approaches are presented to foster lasting success. It conveys a current portrayal of issues and trends of school-based literacy practices appropriate for novice and experienced educators and researchers alike.

About this title

About the Author

Evan Ortlieb - St. John's University, NYC, USA
Earl H.Cheek, Jr. - Louisiana State University, USA

Review

The contributors present best practices in instruction for students in the K-8 range who have difficulty reading. The assertion is that all students, taught with thoughtful literacy instruction and methods, are able to improve their reading proficiency. Topics include engaging instruction for struggling readers, supporting children's reading during guided reading in intervention programs, from struggling reader to digital reader and multimodal composer, mobile devices for struggling readers in the classroom, and vocabulary instruction. Editors are Ortleib (education, Monash U., Australia) and Cheek (educational theory, policy, and practice, Louisiana State U). Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781906963
• ISBN 13: 9781781906965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Evan Ortlieb, Earl H.Cheek Jr.