Strategies for Struggling Readers and Writers - Softcover

Meyerson, Maria J.; Kulesza, Dorothy L.

9780131181779: Strategies for Struggling Readers and Writers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131181777 ISBN 13: 9780131181779

Publisher: Pearson, 2005

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For undergraduate/graduate courses in Reading Methods, and Reading/Literacy Tutoring.

This text provides a solid pool of ideas gathered to offer a wide range of strategies that effectively assist struggling readers and writers. Unique to this text is the way it begins with assessment tools encouraging teachers to identify how and why students are struggling with literacy tasks and then offers a variety of effective intervention strategies to help teachers help students in word identification, comprehension, and fluency, and motivation. Each strategy is formatted consistently with step-by-step directions that detail how it should be implemented.

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About the Author:

Maria J. Meyerson, Ph.D., is a professor of literacy education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). With more than 25 years in education, Meyerson is a former remedial reading teacher for the Buffalo Public Schools and the Clark County School District. She served as the director of the Literacy Development Center at UNLV for 10 years, working with children, preservice teachers, and master and doctoral students. She continues to work with the Paradise Professional Development School as well as other schools in the Las Vegas area.

Dorothy L. Kulesza, Ed.D., is called "Dottie" by all who know her. She completed her doctorate in 2001. Dottie was a classroom teacher and literacy specialist at the Paradise Professional Development School. After two years as a visiting professor at UNLV, she was a Humanities teachers with the Clark County School District as well as a part-time literacy instructor. Dottie recently accepted a position as Assistant Principal at Goolsby Elementary School and Christensen Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada.

From the Back Cover:

Strategies for Struggling Readers amd Writers offers vital research-based strategies for use in assisting struggling readers and writers in elementary and middle school. New to this edition are strategies specifically created for students whose first language is not English. This edition also offers the foundation of observational assessment and includes student interviews that you will find engaging. Writing tips are introduced as a critical part of each strategy to serve as an aid to help struggling students see the literacy link between reading and writing. This dynamic new edition is a must-have for all language arts classroom teachers, reading specialists, and teachers of English as a second language.

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