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Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)

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There are many books, but few are geared to the practical, everyday processes of reacing out to a child with a disability. This book does that. Everything is step by step, and easy to carry out. I have been a SPED teacher for over 33 years. You can never, ever learn enough.

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"Teaching Reading Comprehension" may be a rather stale title for a book on one of the most important (and, arguably, well-studied) components of education, but the content is highly enlightening and refreshing for those concerned with improving instructional practices with students with learning disabilities, as well as all other students.

Many highly effective, practical, and research-based ideas for teaching reading are provided in this well-organized book. A considerable amount of useful information will provide all teachers with many fresh ideas for enhancing their literacy program. My one criticism is that there are several (rather small, almost silly) errors that were missed by the publishers that appear to be the result of poor editing. Just the same, those errors do not subtract from the content and should (hopefully) be corrected in future editions.

I'm usually pretty skeptical about new books for teaching. This book contains practical lessons that are easy to use in the classroom. I've already recommended it to several of the Language Arts teachers that I work with. These strategies are good for students with LD as well as all students in the classroom.

Excellent resource tool for special education professionals and reading specialists. Provides strategies to use with learning disabled students that are easy to implement in the classroom. These strategies also work well with general education students who are below grade level in reading skills.

I appreciate all the information provided are research based, and for the most part are practical. The book nevertheless reads like a manual, and doesn't seem to offer much suggestions on how to make the teaching more fun and palatable for students with learning difficulties. More real-life examples would be good, as they will illustrate clearer how the tools can be applied. Definitely worth reading, but on the whole quite dull text.