The Struggling Reader: Interventions That Work

The authors of this iteration of reading strategies offer a comprehensive, easy to read, and relatively concise text covering related facets of reading skills and interventions. This book is probably most helpful to (but not limited to) those teachers whose university experience covering reading instruction consisted of the "Whole Language" reading instruction approach, in which phonics was a big no-no. The strategies in this text will help fill in those instructional gaps. Details include descriptions of types of struggling readers (ELL, LD, unmotivated, etc.), skills needed for efficient, successful reading, a prevention/intervention framework, and a plethora of strategies to implement that framework.What did I like about this book? I liked the examples (and non-examples!), easy-to-read layout/organization and charts, and descriptions of terms and strategies.

Poor copy, text looks blurry and it didn't have any new information for me. The book can be more teacher friendly with clear examples of application. I was expecting more from this book than received.

I ordered this while working on my MAT. Very helpful for beginning teachers as well as vetereans if you have struggling readers that don't improve with the usual strategies.

Just as described and needed for class.

I keep this on my class desk. This is a fantastic book for all teachers that teach reading in any form.