What Works for Special-Needs Learners
3 total works
RTI for Reading at the Secondary Level
by Deborah K. Reed, Jade Wexler, and Sharon Vaughn
Grounded in the best current knowledge, this book shows how to implement response to intervention (RTI) in middle and high school contexts. Detailed guidelines are presented for teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and other aspects of literacy across the content areas, and for providing effective interventions for students who require additional support. The authors describe RTI procedures that are specifically tailored to the needs of struggling adolescent learners and that take into account the challenges and logistics of secondary-level implementation. The volume features 26 reproducible tools for planning, assessment, progress monitoring, and multi-tiered instruction; the large-size format facilitates photocopying.
Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties
by Janette K. Klingner, Sharon Vaughn, and Alison Boardman
A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features include discussion questions in every chapter and reproducible instructional materials and lesson plans.
Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties
by Janette Klingner, Sharon Vaughn, and Alison Boardman
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.
*Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehension.
*Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards.
*Additional instructional activities throughout.