"Pearson Professional Development"--Cover. "Includes book club study guide at the end of the book!"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.
Contents:
Reading development in grades 5 through 9 : problems and promise -- Decoding is not the problem (but that is what most remediation targets) -- "It's the words, man" : limited meaning vocabulary and how to improve it -- Read more, read better : addressing a major source of reading difficulties -- Reading with comprehension : understanding "understanding" -- Literate conversation : a powerful method for fostering understanding of complex texts -- Getting the gist of it all : summarization after reading -- Pulling it all together : effective instruction all day long.
Summary:
"The latest from well-known author and literacy expert Richard Allington Allington is intended as the first step in preparing current and future teachers to provide early adolescents with high-quality literacy instruction. What Really Matters for Middle School Readers: From Research to Practice looks at the areas that struggling adolescents find most difficult - meaning, vocabulary (especially for academic words), and inferential comprehension - and focuses on ways to foster accelerated students experience each day, as well as through the wide variety of additional classroom strategies and methodologies included in the text, middle school students can achieve a working literacy proficiency."--Back Cover.
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