
10 Essential Instructional Elements for Students With Reading Difficulties: A Brain-Friendly Approach / Edition 1
ISBN-13: 9781483373775 Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication date: 11/11/2015 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 256 Sales rank: 443,067 Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d) Brain-friendly strategies to help all students become lifelong readersThis book is the definitive resource on how the brain creates meaning from print. Drawing from five key areas of neurocognitive research, Andrew Johnson provides a ten-point teaching strategy that encompasses vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, writing and more. A key resource for creating intervention plans for struggling readers, features include: • Information on the importance of emotions in the process of overcoming reading struggles • Strategies to promote voluntary reading, even for the most reluctant students • Useful resources such as graphic organizers, additional reading and writing activities, and QR codes that link to videos