Teaching Struggling Readers: Articles from the Reading Teacher [Paperback]

Richard L. Allington (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

This compilation addresses instructional issues for teachers of children with reading/learning disabilities. The book is designed to help the reader redefine professional beliefs regarding what can be accomplished and to provide useful, specific examples of programs and practices that foster reading development in all children, both inside and outside the classroom.

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Editorial Reviews

From the Author

I have two goals in mind for this collection. The first is to stimulate thought and conversation about the complexity of helping all children become eager, enthusiastic, and engaged readers. The second is to provide a small but useful compendium of best practice information in literacy instruction for children who have found learning to read and write difficult. If those who read through this collection are challenged, energized, optimistic, and more skillful instructionally, then the collection will have achieved my goals.

From the Back Cover

"After a century of research on reading instruction and on children who find learning to read difficult, there are only a few things of critical instructional importance that have been identified. Unfortunately, professional debates and discussions often ignore each of these important dimensions of effective instructional environments and interventions," writes editor Richard Allington in the introduction to this compilation. "Teaching Struggling Readers" presents many examples of effective environments, giving teachers a number of techniques to apply in the classroom. It addresses a range of issues to help teachers redefine professional beliefs regarding what can be accomplished in giving children with reading/learning disabilities the skills that they need to learn to read successfully.

The articles included in this compilation have been published in the International Reading Association's "The Reading Teacher" over the past 10 years. They are practical and contain a wealth of specific suggestions for teachers of struggling readers. Topics include organizing the classroom to help diverse students, encouraging motivation in struggling readers, using specific tools such as phonics and decoding to teach at-risk readers, and connecting school and home literacy. Allington and the other authors whose work is included here share the belief that teachers, by being flexible in the selection of intervention approaches and through the creative use of available resources, can teach any child to read.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: International Reading Association (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872071839
• ISBN-13: 978-0872071834
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dick Allington is a member of the literacy studies faculty at the University of Tennessee. He is a past-president of the National Reading Conference and the International Reading Association. His university career encompasses both preparing reading specialists and literacy researchers as well as an active research agenda. His research has been funded by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health. Most of his research has focused on studying struggling readers and the nature of the instruction schools provide to these students.

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This review is from: Teaching Struggling Readers: Articles from the Reading Teacher (Paperback)

This book has been a great resource for me while getting my Master's in Reading, and of course I will keep it for permanent reference.