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Starting Strong: Evidence-­Based Early Literacy Practices
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Blamey, Katrin; Beauchat, Katherine – Redleaf Press, 2016
Four evidence-based instructional approaches create an essential resource for any early literacy teacher or coach. Improve your teaching practices in all areas of early literacy. Use four proven instructional approaches--standards based, evidenced based, assessment based, and student based--to improve their teaching practice in all areas of early…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Literacy Education, Academic Standards
Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties: The Interactive Strategies Approach. Second Edition
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Scanlon, Donna M.; Anderson, Kimberly L.; Sweeney, Joan M. – Guilford Press, 2016
Grounded in a strong evidence base, this indispensable text and practitioner guide has given thousands of teachers tools to support the literacy growth of beginning and struggling readers in grades K-2. The interactive strategies approach (ISA) is organized around core instructional goals related to enhancing word learning and comprehension of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills Activity Book. Revised Edition
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Carreker, Suzanne; Birsh, Judith R. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
With the new edition of this activity book--the companion to Judith Birsh's bestselling text, "Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills"--students and practitioners will get the practice they need to use multisensory teaching effectively with students who have dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Ideal for both pre-service teacher…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills. Third Edition
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Birsh, Judith R., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
As new research shows how effective systematic and explicit teaching of language-based skills is for students with learning disabilities--along with the added benefits of multisensory techniques--discover the latest on this popular teaching approach with the third edition of this bestselling textbook. Adopted by colleges and universities across…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Disabilities
English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom. 2nd Edition
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Birch, Barbara M. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This book remains a comprehensive, myth-debunking examination of how L1 features (orthographic system, phonology, morphology) can influence English L2 reading at the "bottom" of the reading process. It provides a thorough but very accessible linguistic/psycholinguistic examination of the lowest levels of the reading process. It is both theoretical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Learning from Children Who Read at an Early Age.
Stainthorp, Rhona; Hughes, Diana – 1999
Noting that much has been written about children who have difficulty learning to read but little has been written about children who are fluent early readers, this book explores why some children succeed in reading at a very early age. The book resulted from a 3-year research project that studied the progress of 29 English children before they…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy