Teaching Children with Reading Difficulties : 2nd Edition

Deslea Konza
Teaching Children with Reading Difficulties : 2nd Edition
Teaching Children with Reading Difficulties : 2nd Edition

Teaching Children with Reading Difficulties : 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780170128971
Publication Date: 27 March 2006

Teaching Children with Reading Difficulties is written chiefly for pre-service and practicing primary school teachers who are in the front lines of helping young children acquire the skills of reading. The book presents the results of decades of reading research in an accessible manner, and translates the results of this research into practical guidelines and strategies for successful reading instruction.

Teaching Children with Reading Difficulties addresses the prerequisite skills of 'learning to read' (the development of essential phonological skills, letter-sound knowledge, word-recognition skills and vocabulary development) in addition to strategies that will help children develop the fluency and comprehension skills that contribute to 'reading to learn'.

New to this Edition

  • New chapter on recent brain research that looks at how the brain activity of fluent readers differ from that of struggling readers.
  • New chapter on spelling.
  • New material on teaching fluency and developing vocabulary.
  • New strategies to develop comprehension.
  • Inclusion of new assessment tools.
  • Evaluation of current programs such as Ants in the Apple, THRASS, Spalding.

About the Author

Dr. Deslea Konza is Director of Primary Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. She also coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate special education programs, and has a long-term interest in the education of children with a range of disabilities.