remedial teaching

"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"--.

Presents resources for teaching reading from pre-kindergarten through high school, including how to help struggling readers using the Response to Intervention (RTI) method.

Contains twenty-four foreign film guides for use in sixth to twelfth grade English classes, discussing how each film will encourage reading through their subtitles and interesting plots, giving an overview of each film, and providing vocabulary and activities.

A guide for educators to use RTI (Response to Intervention) strategies to help English-language learners with different levels of proficiency, explaining why RTI is an effective method to teach English learners, and providing checklists, an observation matrix, and other resources.

Shares research and interventions that have helped readers with high decoding skills but low comprehension make the shift to reading with understanding, describing classroom practices designed to help students become more cognitively flexible, focusing on the Sound-Meaning Flexible Thinking Assessment and Intervention, a method that uses the included word and picture cards.

Explains how to administer a traditional assessment battery to diagnose reading problems and how to interpret scores; provides instruction on how to correct reading problems, discussing tutoring strategies for students at different grade levels; and includes case studies, as well as information on the clinical training of reading teachers.