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Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning difficulties / Janette K. Klingner, Sharon Vaughn, Alison Boardman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextNew York : Guilford Press, 2015Description: xiv, 226 pages 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781462517374 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1050.5 .K687 2015
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview of Reading Comprehension -- 2. Assessing Reading Comprehension -- 3. Vocabulary Instruction -- 4. Instructional Practices That Promote Reading Comprehension -- 5. Promoting Content Area Literacy -- 6. Supporting English Language Learners with Learning Difficulties -- 7. Intensive Interventions for Students with Significant Reading Comprehension Difficulties -- 8. Multicomponent Approaches to Strategy Instruction -- Glossary.
Summary: *Additional instructional activities throughout.--Amazon.comSummary: *Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State StandardsSummary: *Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehensionSummary: This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension, build the skills that good readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features thought-provoking discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic organizers can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition: *Chapters on content-area literacy, English language learners, and intensive interventions
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview of Reading Comprehension -- 2. Assessing Reading Comprehension -- 3. Vocabulary Instruction -- 4. Instructional Practices That Promote Reading Comprehension -- 5. Promoting Content Area Literacy -- 6. Supporting English Language Learners with Learning Difficulties -- 7. Intensive Interventions for Students with Significant Reading Comprehension Difficulties -- 8. Multicomponent Approaches to Strategy Instruction -- Glossary.

*Additional instructional activities throughout.--Amazon.com

*Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards

*Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehension

This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension, build the skills that good readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features thought-provoking discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic organizers can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition: *Chapters on content-area literacy, English language learners, and intensive interventions

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