Success with struggling readers : the Benchmark School approach
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Success with struggling readers : the Benchmark School approach
（Solving problems in the teaching of literacy / Cathy Collins Block, series editor）
Guilford Press, c2005
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"