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Empowering Struggling Readers

Practices for the Middle Grades
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This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers - even those who appear to have given up - and fostering their success. The emphasis is on constructing respectful, encouraging learning environments that incorporate students' diverse literacies, cultural interests, and prior knowledge and skills into instruction. Chapters outline effective, innovative strategies for instruction and assessment in comprehension, vocabulary, text-based discussion, critical reading, and other core areas. Realistic classroom examples are included throughout, including applications of nontraditional texts. Other useful features include reflection questions at the end of each chapter. This book will be important reading for english/language arts teachers in grades 6-9, reading specialists and coaches, and teacher educators. It may also serve as a text in such courses as Adolescent Literacy, Teaching English Language Arts, and Reading Methods in the Middle Grades.
1. Who Are Struggling Readers?2. Promoting Disciplinary Reading Practices in English Language Arts3. Designing Classroom Environments That Support Literacy Development4. Engaging and Motivating Marginalized Readers5. Assessing Reading Performance and Students' Funds of Knowledge6. Implementing Reading Comprehension Strategies7. Using Young Adult Literature to Promote Comprehension with Struggling Readers, Lisa Scherff8. Culturally Grounded Vocabulary Instruction9. Fostering Discussions about Texts10. Reading Texts on the Internet11. Using Nonprint Media and Texts to Support Marginalized Readers, Stergios G. Botzakis12. Relevant Curriculum and Policy for Middle School Struggling Readers13. Conclusion: Promising Readers, David W. Moore
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