Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Diffculties

by Carolyn A. Denton

Reading problems don't disappear when students enter middle school-recent studies show that nearly a quarter of today's eighth graders aren't able to read at a basic level.* This book arms language arts teachers with the lessons, strategies, and foundational knowledge they need to resolve older students' reading difficulties and increase their chances for academic success. Ideal for use with struggling readers in Grades 6-8, this book clearly lays out the fundamentals of effective teaching for adolescents with reading difficulties. Teachers will discover how to To help teachers incorporate evidence-based practices into their classroom instruction, they'll get more than 20 complete, step-by-step sample lessons for strengthening adolescents' reading skills. Easy to adapt for use across any curriculum, the sample lessons provide explicit models of successful instruction, with suggested teacher scripts, checklists for planning instruction, key terms and objectives, strategies for guided and independent practice, tips on promoting generalization, and more. With this practical guide to high-quality instruction, middle school teachers will help struggling readers develop the skills they need to master complex academic content and succeed inside and outside the classroom. With 20+ step-by-step sample lessons that improve *National Center for Education Statistics, 2011

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First published September 7, 2012

Reviews

[E.A.G. E.A.G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good strategies and methods to approach and very helpful for instruction. I found this to be a wonderful read for instructors for upper elementary and middle school and the strategies presented are very important for instructors to help students with a variety of different methods to help with reading with different areas to address.

[Cecilia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Note to self: remember to look through this book anytime you need any ideas for lessons to improve fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and word recognition.

[Michael Brockley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book could serve as a useful template for a teacher who has the responsibility of teaching at-risk middle school teachers to read. It discloses in step-by-step manner how to establish such a program and provides a number of lesson plans to build reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, reading fluency and sight-word recognition. Each chapter progresses from "I do" to "We do" to "You do" scenarios with a final section in each chapter that explores skill generalization. The interested teacher might choose to purchase a print book rather than an ebook in order to have ready access to the helpful handouts.

[Wendie Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good book for referencing, but hardly anything new. Love all the graphic organizers- they help immensely.