Success with Struggling Readers: The Benchmark School Approach

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Guilford Press, May 3, 2005 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 264 pages

From the founder of the internationally known Benchmark School, this unique book presents a proven approach for helping struggling students become fully engaged readers, learners, thinkers, and problem solvers. Benchmark's research-based Interactive Learning Model is clearly explained and illustrated with teacher-friendly, step-by-step examples.

Gaskins demonstrates ways to teach effective strategies for decoding words and understanding concepts, and gives students the skills to apply these strategies across the curriculum, based on their own learning styles and the specific demands of the task at hand.

Comprehensive yet highly readable, this book includes quick-reference charts and reproducible figures and activities that can be used in all subject areas from kindergarten to grade 12.

 

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Contents

Introduction to Benchmarks Interactive Learning Model 10
16
Characteristics of Students in a School for Struggling Readers
23
Exploring the Strengths and Challenges
29
Summary
48
Teacher Knowledge Classroom Culture 67 9
67
Sociocultural Task and Text Variables
87
Learning Principles about the Interaction of Variables Explicit Instruction
98
Learning Principles to Share with Students
132
Activities That Reinforce Word Detective Practices
177
Comprehension Strategies
190
Explicit Explanations of Comprehension Strategies for Grades 18
202
Rationale for Teaching Concepts Essential Understandings
226
Student Outcomes and Next Steps
232
Possibilities for Instruction
238
There Are No Quick Fixes
245
Index
257

PART III
153
Copyright

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Irene West Gaskins
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Irene West Gaskins
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About the author (2005)

Irene West Gaskins, EdD, is founder and director of Benchmark School in suburban Philadelphia. She has been honored as a Distinguished Educator by The Reading Teacher and received the International Reading Association's William S. Gray Citation of Merit for lifetime achievement. Her special interest is developing strategies for improving word recognition and comprehension.

Bibliographic information

TitleSuccess with Struggling Readers: The Benchmark School Approach
Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
AuthorIrene West Gaskins
ContributorBenchmark School (Media, Pa.)
Editionillustrated
PublisherGuilford Press, 2005
ISBN1593851693, 9781593851699
Length264 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy
  
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