Teaching Struggling Readers to Tackle Math Word Problems: Grade 3-5 - Softcover

Trapolsi, Audrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545207177 ISBN 13: 9780545207171

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2012

Synopsis

Math word problems can be challenging for many students. Struggling readers have it that much harder. The lessons and activities in this book show how strategies such as visualizing, predicting, reflecting about reading, and other skills typically learned in language arts, provide teachers with practical ways to help every learner untangle word problems and approach problem solving with new confidence. Through cloze practice, picture-problem matching, rearranging scrambled sentences, and more, students will strengthen their words-to-numbers connection and get a better grasp on the structure of word problems&;where to start reading first, signal words to look out for, and how to stay focused during multi-step problems. Every student will benefit from the whole-class lessons, small-group activities, and engaging reproducibles that scaffold students from guided practice to independent performance!

About this title

About the Author

Audrey Trapolsi has taught in New Jersey, New York City, and Madrid, Spain. She attended Bryn Mawr College and Teacher's College, Columbia University. She currently teaches fifth grade, and enjoys painting and drawing. She is the co-author of Reteaching Math: Multiplication & Division, published by Scholastic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545207177
• ISBN 13: 9780545207171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64