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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480650903321

Autore

McEwan-Adkins Elaine K. <1941->

Titolo

40 ways to support struggling readers in content classrooms grades 6-12 [[electronic resource] /] / Elaine K. McEwan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin, 2007

ISBN

1-4522-9459-3

1-4833-2970-4

1-4522-9779-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

428.407/12

Soggetti

Reading (Secondary)

Reading - Remedial teaching

Content area reading

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Teach the seven strategies of highly effective readers -- Engage in teacher and student think-alouds daily -- Teach students how to activate prior knowledge and make connections to new knowledge -- Teach students how to infer -- Teach students how to monitor their comprehension -- Teach students how to ask questions -- Teach students how to question the author -- Teach students how to search and select -- Teach students how to summarize -- Teach students how to graphically organize text and concepts by chunking -- Use and teach concept maps -- Teach students how to mark text as they read -- Provide advance organizers before lessons -- Use the I do it, we do it, you do it lesson plan -- Provide models, examples, and nonexamples -- Preview and preteach critical concepts and vocabulary -- Check frequently for understanding -- Assess for learning and for grading -- Use and teach content vocabulary daily -- Teach academic vocabulary -- Teach vocabulary using graphic organizers -- Reduce the cognitive load -- Teach the structure of your discipline -- Use easy nonfiction to build background knowledge -- Determine what's hard for students and teach it -- Provide easy-to-read short articles based



on content standards -- Assign oral-assisted repeated reading of content text -- Use a variety of oral reading approaches -- Vary your models, moves, and activities -- Design interactive lessons -- Use the cooperative learning model -- Create content-based cooperative games and activities -- Vary your seating and grouping arrangements -- Give students reasons for reading -- Develop and use scoring rubrics -- Increase wait time -- Build in frequent processing breaks -- Use and teach mnemonic devices -- Schedule writing in response to reading on a regular basis -- Expect students to activate, connect, and summarize daily.

Sommario/riassunto

This work is about scaffolding - the process by which expert teachers support novice learners. The book contains 40 research-based and classroom-tested methods that teachers can implement to help struggling readers be more successful.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996280021903316

Titolo

Proceedings / / the ... Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computations ; sponsored by the Computer Society of the IEEE [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : IEEE Computer Society Press, ©1988-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

004/.35/05

Soggetti

Parallel processing (Electronic computers)

Supercomputers

Parallel computers

Parallélisme (Informatique)

Superordinateurs

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Published: Los Alamitos, Calif., 1990-<1996>.

Proceedings for 2nd (1988)-5th (1995) symposia are cataloged as monographs in LC.