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Improving Low-Reading Ages in the Secondary School: Practical Strategies for Learning Support
Contributor(s): Blum, Paul (Author)
ISBN: 0415329094     ISBN-13: 9780415329095
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $42.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2004
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Annotation: Shows how to make successful reading interventions for reluctant or weak readers at secondary school level.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Education
Dewey: 428.407
LCCN: 2003018373
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 8.92" W x 12.18" (0.83 lbs) 124 pages
 
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This highly practical guide shows how learning support teachers and assistants can work effectively with secondary school pupils who are struggling with their reading. It relates directly to the working practices of teachers, steering them through issues such as:

  • assessing the low-age reader
  • working with reading withdrawal groups
  • finding and creating resources for low-age readers
  • constructing spelling strategies to support reading
  • understanding the emotional dimension to being a poor reader
  • how to effectively involve parents.

Paul Blum offers valuable advice on how to make challenging mainstream subject textbooks accessible to low-aged readers and help on where to find good free resources as well as commercial materials to suit them. Exploring the vital relationship between the mainstream and learning support function, he also outlines the ways in which the two can be harnessed to make a significant difference to reading improvement.