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Reading success for struggling adolescent learners /

Comprehensive, up to date, and highly practical, this volume discusses factors that affect struggling readers in grades 7-12 and provides research-based strategies for improving their reading and writing skills. Chapters from leading authorities examine why some adolescents have trouble achieving re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lenski, Susan Davis, 1951-, Lewis, Jill, Ed. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Guilford Press, ©2008.
Colección:Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Susan Lenski and Jill Lewis
  • What do we know about the adolescent learner and what does it mean for literacy instruction? / Jill Lewis and Avivah Dahbany
  • Struggling adolescent readers : problems and possibilities / Susan Lenski
  • Nurturing resilience among adolescent readers / Alfred W. Tatum and Teresa A. Fisher
  • Teaching adolescent English language learners / Fabiola P. Ehlers-Zavala
  • The role of technology in supporting struggling readers / Dana L. Grisham and Thomas DeVere Wolsey
  • Engaging struggling adolescent readers in conversations about texts : instructional strategies for successful experiences / Kathleen Crawford-McKinney and Kattie Hogan
  • Making time for independent reading / Susan Lenski and Erexenia Lanier
  • Fluency strategies for struggling adolescent readers / Gay Fawcett and Timothy Rasinski
  • Comprehension strategies that make a difference for struggling readers / Micki M. Caskey
  • Vocabulary strategies for struggling readers / Margaret Ann Richek and Becky McTague
  • Classroom instruction for struggling writers / Leif Fearn and Nancy Farnan
  • Teaching from a critical literacy perspective and encouraging social action / Susan Lenski
  • Meaningful assessment of struggling adolescent readers / Peter Afflerbach
  • Literacy coaching at the middle school/high school levels / Rita Bean
  • Keeping parents involved in their children's education during the middle and high school years / Laurie Elish-Piper
  • "But I'm not going to college!" : developing adolescents' literacy for the 21st-century workplace / Jill Lewis.