Catching Readers Before They Fall

Download or read book Catching Readers Before They Fall written by Pat Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every teacher of reading plays a vital role in helping to catch those readers for whom learning to read does not come easily. Through examples from both adults and children, the authors explain and describe the complex integrated network of strategies that go on in the minds of proficient readersstrategies that struggling readers have to learn in order to construct their own reading processes. This book is essential reading for all who work with struggling readers in any context and contains a wealth of resources, including a thorough explanation of all the sources of information readers use to solve words, examples and scenarios of teacher/student interactions, prompts to use with struggling readers, lessons on modeling, and assessment guidelines.