Education Week - May 13, 2015 - Special Report - S13

Building Literacy Ski ls > www.edweek.org/go/buildingliteracy | S13
EDUCATION WEEK MAY 13, 2015
n
n
ADVERTISEMENT
EDUCATION WEEK MAY 13, 2015
Building Literacy Skills > www.edweek.org/go/buildingliteracy
+
Struggling Readers:
Engaging and Teaching
in Grades 3-8
MAUREEN McLAUGHLIN
& TIMOTHY V. RASINSKI
FROM TOP:
First grader Noah Bayu,
left, writes a sentence
incorporating vocabulary
words as his classmates,
Madelis Salvador Lopez,
right, and Josue
Nava-Lanza, center, look
on at the Center City
Public Charter School's
Brightwood Campus, in
Washington. The school is
moving vocabulary
instruction into thematic
units.
Kindergartner Yohanna
Tesfamariam whispers
into her classmate's ear
during a vocabulary
lesson at Center City
school.
PREORDER NOW!
literacyworldwide.org/EWSR
800.336.7323 (U.S. and Canada)
© 2015
ISBN 978-0-87207-385-2
Nonmembers: $29.95
ILA Members: $23.95
How do you craft learning around a struggling
reader's literacy abilities? The authors
packed this new resource full of practical
classroom ideas with an emphasis on building a
relationship with students to better understand
their learning styles. Chapters offer short
vignettes to show each strategy in action with
student examples.
More than 20 reproducibles inside
to help guide your instruction!
| 302.731.1600 (all other countries)
where
past & present
create the
future
"The best way to get the largest
number of students, especially those
students who need our help most, to
be able to read complex texts independently
and proficiently is to go
after knowledge big-time, to go after
a topic," said Mr. Liben, who helps
lead professional development for
the text-set project.
A new study of 59 students by the
University of Michigan offers some
evidence that the text-set approach
may be on the right track. Researchers
compared a group of 4th graders
who read six texts about one topic,
such as birds, with a group that read
six texts about different topics, such as
birds, glaciers, and coral reefs.
The students who read about only
one topic performed marginally better
than their peers on a test of general
academic words that appeared
in both groups' texts.
And those with the coherent text
set also learned significantly more
PAGE S14 >
Ted Hasselbring understands the promise of
technology. The senior author of Read 180 was
doing blended learning before it had a name. As
a visionary special educator, he also knows the
benefits of technology are too often denied to
those who struggle to read. Hasselbring's research
benefiting millions of learners is one reason why
Vanderbilt's Peabody College is esteemed as one of
the leading education schools in the nation.
JOIN OUR TIMELINE.
peabody.vanderbilt.edu
#VUPeabody
Photos by Swikar Patel/Education Week

http://www.edweek.org/go/buildingliteracy http://www.literacyworldwide.org/EWSR http://www.literacyworldwide.org/EWSR http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu

Education Week - May 13, 2015 - Special Report

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Education Week - May 13, 2015 - Special Report