Building struggling students' higher level literacy
Subtitle: practical ideas, powerful solutions
By: James L. Collins and Thomas G. Gunning, editors.
Contributors: Collins, James L.; Gunning, Thomas G.
Publisher: International Reading Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark, Dela
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780872076877
Subjects: Reading -- Remedial teaching
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Struggling readers and higher level literacy / Thomas G. Gunning; title: Assessment-based instruction in developing higher level literacy / Thomas G. Gunning and Diane Phelps; title: Using discussions to promote striving readers' higher level comprehension of literary texts / Kristin Bourdage Reninger and Ian A.G. Wilkinson; title: Shifting talk about text : developing struggling readers' comprehension processes during talk about text / Kathleen F. Clark; title: Using writing to develop struggling learners' higher level reading comprehension / James L. Collins and Timothy P. Madigan; title: Teaching struggling readers to respond in writing to open-ended questions : making the writing and reading strategic / Nancy N. Boyles; title: A step-by-step program for developing higher level skills in struggling readers / Thomas G. Gunning; title: Beyond strategy instructio n: looking at person, situation, task, and text variables / Irene W. Gaskins and Emily Phillips Galloway; title: Strategy instruction and lessons learned in teaching higher level thinking skills in an urban middle school classroom / Karen C. Waters; title: Literacy initiatives in the urban setting that promote higher level thinking / Karen C. Waters; title: School, home, and community : a symbiosis for a literacy partnership / Karen C. Waters; title: Next steps : implementing a program of higher level literacy for struggling readers / Thomas G. Gunning.