Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-based Research to Maximize Learning / Edition 1

Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-based Research to Maximize Learning / Edition 1

by Carol Lyons
ISBN-10:
0325004358
ISBN-13:
9780325004358
Pub. Date:
02/04/2003
Publisher:
Heinemann
ISBN-10:
0325004358
ISBN-13:
9780325004358
Pub. Date:
02/04/2003
Publisher:
Heinemann
Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-based Research to Maximize Learning / Edition 1

Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-based Research to Maximize Learning / Edition 1

by Carol Lyons

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Overview

Lyons does a masterful job of introducing teachers to the concepts, categories, language, and arguments pertaining to the brain's control of what readers do. She offers a new way of thinking about learning, about how the mind develops, and about what teachers can do to reach struggling readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780325004358
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 02/04/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range: 5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Carol Lyons is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University, where she teaches graduate courses in reading, learning and cognition, and professional development courses for university and district-level trainers in Reading Recovery and the Literacy Collaborative. For the past twenty years, she has conducted research and published numerous articles and book chapters on teacher thinking/learning and practice, reading, and learning/reading disability. Lyons is coauthor (with Gay Su Pinnell and Diane DeFord) of Partners in Learning: Teachers and Children in Reading Recovery and coeditor (with Diane DeFord and Gay Su Pinnell) of Bridges to Literacy: Learning from Reading Recovery, which is published by Heinemann.

Table of Contents

Understanding the Developing Mind

How the Brain Develops and Functions

Attention, Movement, and Learning

Language and Learning

Emotion, Memory, and Learning

Creating Literacy Environments to Help All Students Achieve Their Full Potential

Teaching Reluctant, Unmotivated Students

Teaching Hard-to-Teach Students

Teaching LD and AD(H)D Students

Understanding What Makes Teachers Expert

Characteristics of Expert Teachers

Knowledge, Thinking, Reasoning, and Practice of Expert Teachers

Pulling It All Together: Perspectives on the Brain, Learning, and Teaching

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