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Heinemann (2002), Edition: 1st, 400 pages
Description
For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced in 1979 when she met and began teaching a boy named George. When George's parents asked her to explain why he couldn't read and how she could help, Beers, a secondary certified English teacher with no background in reading, realized she had little to offer. That moment sent her on a twenty-three-year search for answers to the question: How do we help middle and high schoolers who can't read? Now, she shares what she has learned and shows teachers how to help struggling readers with comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, word recognition, and motivation. Filled with student transcripts, detailed strategies, reproducible material, and extensive booklists, Beers' guide to teaching reading both instructs and inspires.… (more)
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LibraryThing member hlsabnani
This book is a must have for teachers of any grade level or content area. Beers' writing is accessible and presented in an user friendly format. Her practicaly suggestions for teachers who are trying to help their students read better are succinct and easily implemented.
LibraryThing member cushmane
Beers offers a comprehensive set of instructional materials for MS students who may struggle with reading. Based on research in cognitive and behavioral psychology, the teaching methods have been developed in years of her own classroom practice. Readable, easy to use, and great for a quick guide to
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LibraryThing member garrasir
This text contains useful strategies that teachers of all subjects can use to help student improve their reading. It identifies the different aspects students struggle with and ways to improve their skills.
It is very useful for college students and teachers. It explains real life situations
It is very useful for college students and teachers. It explains real life situations
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teachers encounter and the ways they can improve their curriculum to help their students excel. Show Less
LibraryThing member crimsonsonata
Summary: Many middle and high school teachers are understandably confused about what to do when confronted with a student whose reading or comprehension levels are very low. Kylene Beers lays out many different ways to not only understand the students who have low reading and/or comprehension
Use and appropriateness in a HS classroom (teaching material): This book is more of an invaluable resource to teachers who are baffled about what to do when they have even just one low-level reader in their classroom. Beers provides both methods and activities to encourage better reading, including reading for enjoyment, though some activities may not be appropriate for high schoolers. Most activities can be easily adapted for different reasons, including skill level or subject differences. Many of these methods and activities are even appropriate for a whole class of mixed-level students, because what helps a low-level reader is most likely going to help out a higher-level reader as well.
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levels, but also what to do to help them improve.Use and appropriateness in a HS classroom (teaching material): This book is more of an invaluable resource to teachers who are baffled about what to do when they have even just one low-level reader in their classroom. Beers provides both methods and activities to encourage better reading, including reading for enjoyment, though some activities may not be appropriate for high schoolers. Most activities can be easily adapted for different reasons, including skill level or subject differences. Many of these methods and activities are even appropriate for a whole class of mixed-level students, because what helps a low-level reader is most likely going to help out a higher-level reader as well.
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LibraryThing member benuathanasia
This is my second time reading this. It's exceptionally readable, varying appropriately between conversational, anecdotal, and scholarly. It offers a great deal of research alongside personal reflection and experience. Most of the ideas presented are usable outside the prescribed 6-12 grade level
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demographic. Within the chapters and the appendixes are many useful worksheets, assessments, word lists, ideas, etc. A very good book. Show Less
LibraryThing member dmturner
A full course in teaching dependent readers to be independent and skillful readers. Worth close study. Clear and thorough.
LibraryThing member LibroLindsay
I've only skimmed this so far, and already I can't wait to use some of its activities when my students start reading Julius Caesar. It's really going to help out my lower-level readers, and I think it will improve my more advanced students' metacognitive skills. Hurrah!
LibraryThing member jonbrammer
Another manual full of useful strategies for teaching struggling readers; Beers' name is bandied about in English teaching circles as being the authority on the subject. While some of the asides to her former student George are overly sentimental, the point is not lost that we need to take a
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systematic approach to improving our students' reading comprhension, at risk of leaving them unequipped with the skills necessary to function in a democracy. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
400 p.; 8.9 x 0.81 inches
ISBN
9780867095197