Supporting Struggling Readers / Edition 2

by Barbara J. Walker

Overview

Barbara Walker believes that struggling readers, like their more proficient counterparts, are active learners in search of meaning. In this revised and expanded edition of Supporting Stuggling Readers, she suggests that teachers can build on these children's strengths — the things they can already do — to help them broaden the strategies they use to make sense of text. The book examines the phases of literacy and expands on the instructional strategies and assessment techniques that support children's reading development during each phase.

To draw together the practical teaching techniques that made the original edition of Supporting Struggling Readers so popular, Dr. Walker has added a chapter that explains how to incorporate these techniques into a framework of effective instruction that supports struggling readers as they progress through the developmental phases of literacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887510861
Publisher:	Pippin Publishing
Publication date:	10/31/2003
Series:	Pippin Teacher's Library Series , #41
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.03(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Dr.Barbara J. Walker is Professor of reading education at Oklahoma State University where she teaches courses in reading difficulties and coordinates the Reading and Math Center. An international professional leader, Barbara Walker has served on the board of directors of the International Reading Association and the College Reading Association. Before teaching at the college level, she was an elementary school reading specialist and an instructor in a college developmental reading program. She also coordinated the instructional program at a home for children with disabilities in Cochamba, Bolivia.

In 1997, Barbara's outstanding contribution to reading education was recognized when she received the College Reading Association's A.B. Herr Award. Her research interests focus on teacher development, early literacy intervention and reading difficulties. Her most important work, however, is preparing teachers to work with struggling readers, and in this capacity she has helped improve the literacy of thousands of struggling readers.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Active Literacy
Predicting
Checking predictions
Elaborating on Strategies and Understanding
Situating Literacy
The Reading Process
Summary
Reasons for Reading Difficulty
Difficulty Linking Sources of Information
Difficulty Elaborating Content and Strategy Knowledge
Difficulty Monitoring Meaning
Difficulty Interpreting the Situational Context
Summary
Guidelines for Instruction
Focus on What Children Can Do
Focus on Making Sense
Use Familiar Topics
Ask Children What They Already Know
Discuss Stories with Peers
Revisit Text
Coach Literate Behaviors
Give Children Choice
Ask Children What They Learned
Supporting Children's Membership in the Literacy Community
Summary
Literacy Development - A Continuing Process
Emergent Literacy
Grounded Literacy
Expanding Literacy
Strategic Literacy
Reflective Literacy
Summary
Emergent Literacy
Difficulties
Instructional Strategies
Summary
Grounded Literacy
Difficulties
Instructional Strategies
Summary
Expanding Literacy
Difficulties
Instructional Strategies
Summary
Strategic Literacy
Difficulties
Instructional Strategies
Summary
An Instructional Framework
Stage 1 - Easy Reading
Stage 2 - Guided Reading
Stage 3 - Strategy Lessons
Stage 4 - Writing Activities
Summary
Assessing Literacy
Rethinking Assessment
Emergent Literacy
Grounded Literacy
Expanding Literacy
Strategic Literacy
Reflective Literacy
Attitudes and Motivation
Summary
Working Together
Parents as Partners
Volunteers as Reading Tutors
Staff Review Process
Congruence Model
Collaborative Education Model
Summary
A Final Work
Bibliography