Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties: Strategies for RTI

A one-stop source of proven reading strategies for use with RTI interventions! Offering a set of practical instructional strategies, this second edition of the bestseller helps elementary and middle school educators integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI).

Grounded in research-based reading instruction for students with learning difficulties, this resource provides both highly effective strategies that take a moderate investment of time to implement and tested tactics that can be easily implemented with little or no preparation.

The authors discuss a wide range of topics, including: early literacy and brain-compatible reading instruction, early literacy assessments, phonological and phonemic instruction, developmental reading and spelling stages, building vocabulary and reading fluency, reading comprehension and the brain.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

1. The Reading Brain and Literacy Instruction
• The Good News in Reading Research!
• Big Ideas From Early Literacy Research
• The Emerging Emphasis on Literacy
• Assessments of Early Literacy
• Brain-Compatible Reading Instruction
• A Brain-Based Model of Reading
• What the Brain Research on Reading Has Found
• Conclusion
• What's Next?
2. Phonemic Instruction: The Critical Emphasis in Reading and Literacy
• Phonological Instruction and Phonemic Instruction
• Phonemic Awareness or Phonemic Manipulation
• Guidelines for Phonemic Instruction
• Phonemic-Based Reading Programs
• Conclusion
• What's Next?
3. Phonics and Word Attack Strategies
• Phonics and the Brain
• Phonics Instructional Options
• Strategies for Developmental Reading and Spelling Stages
• Conclusion
• What's Next?
4. Strategies for Building Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
• Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
• Building Vocabulary
• The Importance of Vocabulary Development
• Do We Still Need Sight-Word Approaches for Vocabulary Instruction?
• How Good Readers Read
• Learning New Vocabulary Terms
• Word Recognition Instruction
• Deriving Meaning From Vocabulary
• Learning Strategies for Vocabulary Mastery
• Reading Fluency
• Conclusion
• What's Next?
5. Gaining Meaning From Reading
• Reading Comprehension and the Brain
• Story Grammar
• Student Think-Alouds or Inferencing Substrategies
• Question Answering
• List Summaries
• Improvisational Drama
• Cooperative Discussion and Questioning (Coop-Dis-Q)
• Collaborating Strategic Reading (CSR)
• Bibliotherapy
• Conclusion
• What's Next?
6. Reading Comprehension in the Content Areas
• Content Area Reading and the Brain
• KWPLS (Know, Want to Know, Predict, Learned, Summarize)
• Analogies Instruction
• Possible Sentences
• Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS)
• Guided Reading in Textual Settings (GRITS)
• ReQuest: Asking Self-Declared Questions
• Idea Circles
• Infra-Act: Sharing Perspectives
• Question-Answer Relationships
• Conclusion

Resources: Commercially Available Reading Programs

Glossary

Index

"The authors have taken a huge amount of research and information, digested it, and organized it into a clearly arranged, practical, readable, and usable work. This book balances information, suggestions, and examples with reflective exercises that are practical and valuable. It also gives tons of Web sites and resources for more useful tools and tips."
- Mary Guerrette, Director of Special Education

"Provides research-based information about various reading difficulties from knowledgeable and reputable experts in the field. I appreciate the organizational features: the checklist of strategies at the beginning of each chapter, the reflective exercises throughout the book, teacher tips in each chapter, and the 'What's Next' section at the end, which is a good way of priming the brain for what it's about to learn."
- Sandra Rief, Speaker, Author, Educational Consultant