Struggling readers CAN succeed : targeted solutions based on complex views of real kids in classrooms and communities

In spite of No Child Left Behind and the support provided by Response To Intervention, significant numbers of students continue to struggle with literacy. This text addresses learning-related needs of individual students in addition to interventions for the challenges they face. Struggling readers r...

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Other Authors Nilsson, Nina (Editor), Gandy, Sandra E. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2013]
SeriesLiteracy, language, and learning
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613656
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-182-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xxv, 204 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Bradford Holt and how money matters in learning to read / Catherine Compton-Lilly
  • Chapter 2. Changing outcomes in reading for Bryant, an African American urban learner: A case study / Doris Walker-Dalhouse and A. Derick Dalhouse
  • Chapter 3. The many faces of Dane: viewing boys as a resource in their own literacy development / William G. Brozo
  • Chapter 4. Striking a balance: Implications for struggling readers' and writers' classroom immersion in the new literacies / Francine Falk-Ross
  • Chapter 5. Could Abby have dyslexia? A long journey to confidence / Erika S. Gray and Allison Ward Parsons
  • Chapter 6. I read only dog books! Engaged reading for students on the autistic spectrum / Barbara Ann Marinak, Linda B. Gambrell, and Jacquelynn A. Malloy
  • Chapter 7. Yolanda: Cultural differences as a resource for literacy learning / Christopher J. Rivera and Kimberley Kennedy Cuero
  • Chapter 8. What works for Ramon and other English language learners / Sandra E. Gandy
  • Chapter 9. Developing young children's multifaceted understandings of writing / Julie K. Kidd and M. Susan Burns
  • Chapter 10. After school programs: Literacy opportunities for Deshawn and other struggling adolescent readers / Roberta Linder
  • Chapter 11. Changing preservice teachers' deficit beliefs and attitudes toward the literacy abilities of Tamika and Susana / Nina L. Nilsson
  • About the editors.