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The Second Edition of this bestselling book includes a new section on No Child Left Behind as well as research sections on reading fluency, comprehension strategies, interventions for struggling readers, and vocabulary development and instruction. What Really Matters for Struggling Readers helps teachers design reading remediation and intervention programs around well-established reality- and research-based components. Nationally-recognized scholar and author Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support important principles and shows teachers how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers.
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US students rank 15th in reading--dead last--of all the English-speaking nations on the list provided by Allington (U. of Tennessee, Knoxville). In this text for potential researchers, he focuses on what the US needs to learn if it is to have half a chance at meeting the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. He describes the characteristics of scientifically-based reading research and some of its most significant subjects, and he discusses developing instruction for struggling readers, improving classroom instruction and access to intensive instruction, expanding available instruction time, and making support available for older struggling readers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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