Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading: Practical Strategies
Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Readingpresents practical classroom strategies for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers.What the reviewers are saying…“I found [this book] to be informative and helpful, and I appreciate the challenge it presents to me to implement additional strategies as I work with adolescent literacy.”Professor Roxanne Reedyk, Sheboygan Area School District and Lakeland College“I learned many new strategies and felt, after reading [the book], that I had attended a highly motivational literacy workshop. After excellent workshops I always come home with many new strategies and ‘raring’ to get into the classroom to put those strategies into practice. This is exactly how I feel after reading this highly professional book.”Kathleen M. Lennox, Mattacheese Middle School, Yarmouth, MAAbout the book…Respected authors David Moore and Kathleen Hinchman provide sound advice on how to address the fundamentals of teaching adolescents. This affordable, long-awaited resource is a practical, down-to-earth, easy-to-read guide. Ideal for today's busy teachers, it emphasizes the important preliminary steps to take during the first few days and weeks of class. This book is a must-have for people entering the profession or encountering adolescents who struggle with literacy for the first time.FeaturesConcentrates on adolescentswho struggle as readers and writers.Expressly embeds literacy instruction in regular subject matter instructional unitscovered in secondary schools.Presents classroom management as essentialfor effective literacy teaching.Describes current research and interventionsfor students enrolled in special reading classes and explicitly addresses special reading instruction for upper-grade students.Addresses comprehensive literacy plans and programsto provide a clear framework and decision points for administrators and program developers.Offers a balanced perspective on literacy learning–focusing on developing competencies and attitudes in subject matter classes and in special reading classes.