Product Details

• Author: Dorothy S. Strickland, Kathy Ganske, and Joanne K. Monroe
• Year: 2001
• Grade Range: 3-6

• Media: 264 pp/paper
• ISBN: 978-157110-055-9
• Item No.: WEB-0055

For most students, the intermediate years provide the last opportunity to prevent continued failure in reading and writing. These years are a critical bridge to the middle grades where the tendency is to be less personalized and focused on individual needs. Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers provides teachers, administrators, and staff developers with the best research-based practice on the literacy learning and teaching of low-achieving intermediate students.

Drawing on a combined forty years of classroom teaching experience, the authors explore the factors that contribute to success and failure in literacy and provide systematic and ongoing approaches for helping students who are most at risk. You will find:

• effective teaching practices for all the key aspects of literacy instruction that can be realistically implemented in the context of the classroom teacher's many demands;
• recommendations for motivating low-achieving students;
• suggestions for working with English Language Learners;
• strategies for small-group instruction, word study, reading comprehension, and writing;
• clear descriptions and numerous vignettes that illustrate teaching practices in action;
• an emphasis on differentiated instruction, and ideas for integrating interventions for struggling students with regular classroom instruction;
• ways of helping students perform better on standardized tests.

The extensive Strategy Bank provides over twenty step-by-step practices, each with three sections: What It Does, How to Do It, and What to Look For. The Resources section provides extensive lists of children's books and sources of books, organized by purpose.

Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers will help you improve the reading and writing development of the most perplexing and needy children in your classroom.

Table of Contents

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Contents
Part 1/ 1. Learners and Contexts
2. Motivating Reluctant Readers and Writers
3. Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners
4. Instructional Frameworks for Focused Intervention
5. Making the Most of Small Group Instruction
6. Exploring Words
7. Fostering Reading Fluency
8. Improving Reading Comprehension
9. Improving Writing
Part 2 / Strategy Bank
Resources
References
Index

Kathy Ganske
Kathy became a teacher because she wanted to make a difference in the lives of children. "I later discovered an added plus," she says. "Teachers were great people to work with, be around, and get to know."
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Joanne Monroe
Joanne Monroe is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Clinton Township School District in Annandale, New Jersey.
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Dorothy Strickland
"As far back as I can remember, I have always loved to read. But, I must confess that it was a librarian, not a teacher or even my parents who was most influential in encouraging my love of books. "
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