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Textbooks and the Students Who Can't Read Them: A Guide for the Teaching of Content (Pandas Publications)

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This book narrowly focuses its content to help students who have special needs and in so doing, makes an inappropriate assumption that only these students need help with reading textbooks. This is not the case. All students benefit from teaching methods directed at effective use of a textbook. The book does share a number of techniques for helping students better read and make sense of textbooks. While some of the examples are interesting, these are taken from books by experts which are far better prepared for helping students with reading. Textbooks are only one reference in a good educational setting. However, the author inappropriately spends much time addressing textbook layout as a major piece ignoring the control and expertise that is possessed by the teacher. I was quite dissappointed at the position in which this seemed to place teachers. I was also disappointed by the fact that although this is the fourth edition of the book, it still has many errors.