Teaching Struggling Readers
Subtitle: How to Use Brain-based Research to Maximize Learning
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: February 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780325004358
Subjects: English language; Literacy; Primary / junior schools; Teaching of a specific subject; Education; Education / Teaching; Textbooks; English; Language Experience Approach; Research; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Education / Professional Development; Elementary; Professional Development; Affective education; Educational psychology; Reading; Remedial teaching; Teacher-student relationships
Description: Offering a new way to help struggling readers, this guide introduces recent discoveries in neuroscience and profiles the methods of ten expert teachers who have successfully taught children with learning disabilities, language delays, or attention deficit disorder. Material draws on the methods of the Reading Recovery program developed by Marie M. Clay.