Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning difficulties pdf

Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning difficulties pdf

ERIC Number: ED494229

Record Type: Non-Journal

Publication Date: 2007

Pages: 192

Abstractor: ERIC

ISBN: ISBN-1-5938-5447-1ISBN-978-1-59385-447-8

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Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties. What Works for Special-Needs Learners

Klingner, Janette K.; Vaughn, Sharon; Boardman, Alison

Guilford Publications

A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features include discussion questions in every chapter and reproducible instructional materials and lesson plans. This book begins with a preface followed by these six chapters: (1) Overview of Reading Comprehension; (2) Assessing Reading Comprehension; (3) Vocabulary Instruction; (4) Text Structure and Reading Comprehension; (5) Instructional Practices that Promote Reading Comprehension; and (6) Multicomponent Approaches to Strategy Instruction. Also included are a glossary and and list of websites. This book may serve as a text in undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in reading comprehension, reading disabilities, and special education methods.

Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Problems, Instructional Materials, Vocabulary Development, Text Structure, Reading Difficulties, Special Education, Student Evaluation, Special Needs Students

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Publication Type: Books; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education

Audience: Students; Teachers; Researchers

Language: English

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Here are six essential skills needed for reading comprehension , and tips on what can help kids improve this skill..
Decoding. Decoding is a vital step in the reading process. ... .
Fluency. ... .
Vocabulary. ... .
Sentence construction and cohesion. ... .
Reasoning and background knowledge. ... .
Working memory and attention..

What are the five strategies of reading comprehension?

​General Strategies for Reading Comprehension.
Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing. ... .
Predicting. ... .
Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization. ... .
Questioning. ... .
Making Inferences. ... .
Visualizing. ... .
Story Maps. ... .
Retelling..

How do you help students with reading comprehension difficulties?

6 Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension.
Have them read aloud. ... .
Provide books at the right level. ... .
Reread to build fluency. ... .
Talk to the teacher. ... .
Supplement their class reading. ... .
Talk about what they're reading..