When Kids Can't Read:What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 | 
 enlarge | Author: Kylene Beers
Publisher: Heinemann
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 3242
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0867095199
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.40712
EAN: 9780867095197
ASIN: 0867095199
Publication Date: October 28, 2002
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Product Description
For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.
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 What can be gained? From steve July 17, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have not read this book nor am I a teacher, but have a question. Does this book help with other professionals and adults? For example someone who knows science and takes Calculus improves comprehension analytically? Or someone who knows spelling and now uses shapes for math may help in identifying, say, words? So, not to just teach the kids how to read but to help them with their profession (outside of just teaching) or with their everyday activity/living too? Sorta like self empowerment. Thanks! Steve
Sorry for the negative rating. I just want to be indifferent about it and I cannot put zero stars.
Help for Middle and High School Teachers June 26, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book has a lot of ideas to help teachers of middle school and high school. It contains examples of many strategies for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
If you are stuck on a particular student and can't figure out what to do to help them, read this book and find help.
This book is also good for content area teachers who need help with their struggling readers.
Beer's text satisfaction June 13, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book provides excellent practical advice for teachers and specific strategies to help middle and high school students who struggle with reading. Most teachers will find this book easy to understand and apply to their day work of endeavoring to get kids into literature, regardless of whether or not the students are independent readers.
The book that started it all! May 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a fist-year English teacher serving in a low-performing high school (based on states tests scores)in an inner-city public school district. I struggled to teach on-level text to below grade level students. Once I found this book, I felt like I had a master teacher standing next to me as I taught me students how to use strategies to create meaning from text. The title of this book is befitting of its content because when my students lacked comprehension, I had specific strategies to aid their understanding. Direct instruction of these strategies is based in cooperative learning. Hands down, this warmly written book equipped my students with the ability to comprehensively read any text that any teacher gives them.
Main contents of the book covers reading strategies, vocabulary, fluency, phonics, literary discussions, the reading process, philosophy on direct instruction of reading strategies, and cooperative learning.
Don't Be Fooled By the Title! May 7, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent resource for teachers in all grade levels. The strategies can be used for elementary students and the book has helpful charts that direct you to the information you need if a student has difficulty with comprehension, vocabulary, word recognition and fluency, or spelling. One of the best resources I have ever used in 27 years of teaching.
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