Finding the right texts : what works for beginning and struggling readers / edited by Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Misty Sailors.
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New York :
Guilford Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The (Mis)Match between Texts and Students Who Depend on Schools to Become Literate / Elfrieda H. Hiebert
- Part I. Frameworks for Creating and Selecting Instructional Texts
- 2. Decodable Text: Why, When, and How? / Marilyn Jager Adams
- 3. Repetition of Words: The Forgotten Variable in Texts for Beginning and Struggling Readers / Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Leigh Ann Martin
- 4. The Challenges of Developing Leveled Texts in and for Developing Countries: The Ithuba Writing Project in South Africa / Misty Sailors, James V. Hoffman and Mark W. F. Condon
- Part II. Addressing the Content of Texts for Beginning and Struggling Readers: The Role of Informational Texts
- 5. Text in Hands-On Science / Gina N. Cervetti and Jacqueline Barber
- 6. Informational Text Difficulty for Beginning Readers / Nell K. Duke and Alison K. Billman
- 7. Text Modification: Enhancing English Language Learners' Reading Comprehension / Young-Suk Kim and Catherine E. Snow
- Part III. Instructional Strategies for Adapting Texts for Beginning and Struggling Readers
- 8. Text-Reader Matching: Meeting the Needs of Struggling Readers / Heidi Anne E. Mesmer and Staci Cumming
- 9. Placing and Pacing Beginning Readers in Texts: The Match between Texts and Children's Knowledge of Words / Kathleen J. Brown
- 10. When the "Right Texts" Are Difficult for Struggling Readers / Alison K. Billman, Katherine Hilden and Juliet L. Halladay
- 11. Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Text: Research and Practice / Mary E. Curtis
- Part IV. Pulling It Together
- 12. Teachers Using Texts: Where We Are and What We Need / Anne McGill-Franzen.
