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Help for struggling readers : strategies for grades 3-8 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKenna, Michael C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, [2002]
Series:Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.
Subjects:
Reading > Remedial teaching > United States.
Reading (Elementary) > United States.
Reading (Middle school) > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Decoding strategies
  • Guiding principles of teaching decoding
  • Phonics in the upper grades
  • Phonics word sorts
  • Tape-recorded text
  • Electronic books
  • Fluency strategies
  • Guiding principles of teaching fluency
  • Effective fluency methods
  • Classwide peer tutoring
  • Self-selected reading
  • Vocabulary strategies
  • Guiding principles of teaching vocabulary
  • Feature analysis
  • Graphic organizers
  • Semantic maps
  • Vocabulary venns
  • Semantic scales
  • List-group-label
  • Concept sorts
  • Vocabulary clusters
  • Silly questions
  • Possible sentences
  • Comprehension lesson formats
  • Guiding principles of teaching reading comprehension
  • Directed reading activity
  • Directed reading-thinking activity
  • K-w-l
  • Listen-read-discuss
  • Questioning strategies
  • Levels of questions
  • Question-answer relationships
  • Question clusters
  • Reciprocal questioning
  • Questioning the author
  • Other comprehension strategies
  • Specific skill approaches
  • Walk-throughs
  • Think-alouds
  • Imaging
  • Teaching with analogies
  • Charting new territory
  • Guided notes
  • Reading guides
  • Anticipation guides
  • Reciprocal teaching
  • Guided reading in textual settings
  • Summary writing
  • Cloze venns
  • Riddles
  • Puzzlers
  • More ideas for inferential comprehension.