Smart Kids, Struggling Readers - The Overlooked Factors and Novel Solutions

This book provides original insights and optional strategies for teaching bright struggling students. Addressing the multiple interferences to learning, the novel techniques ensure rapid skills mastery. Created to support Dyslexic learners, all students will benefit from the creative methods introduced.

List of contents

Note to the Reader
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Introduction
Chapter 1- The Premise
Chapter 2- The Basics
Chapter 3- The Given
Part II: The Method
Chapter 4- Phonics
Factor 1: Sound Awareness
Factor 2: Letter-Sound Association
a.)Teaching the Vowels
b.)Teaching the Consonants
Factor 3: The Baby Vs. The Bathwater
Chapter 5- Decoding
Factor 1: Linguistic Clusters
Factor 2: Rules and Patterns
Factor 3: Syllable Identification
Chapter 6- Sight Vocabulary
Chapter 7- Contextual Analysis
Chapter 8- Oral Reading
Chapter 9- Fluency
Chapter 10- Comprehension
Chapter 11- Visual Processing
Part One: Books
Part Two: Words
Chapter 12- Phonemic Processing
Chapter 13- Language Processing
Chapter 14- Affective Support
Chapter 15- A Cautionary Tale
Part III: The Practice
Chapter 16- Guidelines
Chapter 17- Application
Chapter 18- Informal Assessment
Appendix
References
Postscript
About the Author

About the author

By Nickie Simonetti

Product details

• Authors: Nickie Simonetti
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781475848366
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-4836-6
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Special Education / Learning Disabilities, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Languages other than English, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, Dyslexia