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From the founder of the internationally known Benchmark School, this unique book presents a proven approach for helping struggling students become fully engaged readers, learners, thinkers, and problem solvers. Benchmark's research-based Interactive Learning Model is clearly explained and illustrated with teacher-friendly, how-to-do-it examples. Gaskins demonstrates ways to teach effective strategies for decoding words and understanding concepts, and to give students the skills to apply these strategies across the curriculum based on their individual cognitive styles and the specific demands of the task at hand. Comprehensive yet highly readable, the book includes quick-reference charts and reproducible figures and activities that can be used in all subject-matter areas, grades 1 through 8.
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SUCCESS WITH STRUGGLING READERS
SOLVING PROBLEMS IN THE TEACHING OF LITERACY Cathy Collins Block, Series Editor Recent Volumes Explaining Reading: A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies Gerald G. Duffy Rethinking Reading Comprehension Edited by Anne P. Sweet and Catherine E. Snow Exemplary Literacy Teachers: Promoting Success for All Children in Grades K–5 Cathy Collins Block and John N. Mangieri Assessment for Reading Instruction Michael C. McKenna and Steven A. Stahl Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice Edited by James F. Baumann and Edward J. Kame’enui The Reading Specialist: Leadership for the Classroom, School, and Community Rita M. Bean Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language: Contexts and Practices Edited by Fenice B. Boyd and Cynthia H. Brock, with Mary S. Rozendal Teaching All the Children: Strategies for Developing Literacy in an Urban Setting Edited by Diane Lapp, Cathy Collins Block, Eric J. Cooper, James Flood, Nancy Roser, and Josefina Villamil Tinajero Conceptual Foundations of Teaching Reading Mark Sadoski The Literacy Coach’s Handbook: A Guide to Research-Based Practice Sharon Walpole and Michael C. McKenna Comprehension Process Instruction: Creating Reading Success in Grades K–3 Cathy Collins Block, Lori L. Rodgers, and Rebecca B. Johnson Adolescent Literacy Research and Practice Edited by Tamara L. Jetton and Janice A. Dole Tutoring Adolescent Literacy Learners: A Guide for Volunteers Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Kathleen A. Hinchman Success with Struggling Readers: The Benchmark School Approach Irene West Gaskins
Success with Struggling Readers THE BENCHMARK SCHOOL APPROACH
Irene West Gaskins FOREWORD BY MICHAEL PRESSLEY
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