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9780325004358

Teaching Struggling Readers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780325004358

  • ISBN10:

    0325004358

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-02-04
  • Publisher: HEINEMANN

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Summary

Lyons does a masterful job of introducing teachers to the concepts, categories, language, and arguments pertaining to the brains control of what readers do. She offers a new way of thinking about learning, about how the mind develops, and about what teachers can do to reach struggling readers.

Author Biography

CAROL LYONS is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University, where she teaches graduate courses in reading, learning and cognition, and professional development courses for university and district-level trainers in Reading Recovery and the Literacy Collaborative. For the past twenty years, she has conducted research and published numerous articles and book chapters on teacher thinking/learning and practice, reading, and learning/reading disability. Lyons is coauthor (with Gay Su Pinnell and Diane DeFord) of Partners in Learning: Teachers and Children in Reading Recovery and coeditor (with Diane DeFord and Gay Su Pinnell) of Bridges to Literacy: Learning from Reading Recovery, which is published by Heinemann.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(6)
Section One: Understanding the Developing Mind 7(68)
How the Brain Develops and Functions
8(18)
Attention, Movement and Learning
26(17)
Language and Learning
43(15)
Emotion, Memory, and Learning
58(17)
Section Two: Creating Literacy Environments to Help all Students Achieve Their Full Potential 75(58)
Teaching Reluctant, Unmotivated Students
77(16)
Teaching Hard-to-Teach Students
93(16)
Teaching LD and AD(H)D Students
109(24)
Section Three: Understanding What Makes Teachers Expert 133(58)
Characteristics of Expert Teachers
135(17)
Knowledge, Thinking, Reasoning, and Practice of Expert Teachers
152(18)
Putting It All Together: Perspectives on the Brain, Learning, and Teaching
170(21)
Index of Illustrative Examples 191(2)
References 193(4)
Index 197

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