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Make the transition from traditional, whole-group reading instruction to the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. Detailed explanations, helpful case studies, and recommendations of current technologies bring these ideas to life.
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Bender, a former teacher and education professor at the U. of Georgia who writes and presents on differentiated and brain-compatible instruction, response to intervention, and classroom discipline, and Waller, a teacher, author, and presenter on technologies for new literacy, differentiated instruction, and thematic teaching, explain how general and special education teachers and other school staff can use response to intervention (RTI), differentiated instruction, and technology to teach elementary reading. They overview RTI in primary and elementary reading and give background on differentiated instruction models, then discuss a second model based on small-group learning center activities and new literacy technologies for the organization of universal screening data, including e-assessments. Further chapters cover differentiated techniques for early literacy; research on brain functioning; instruction and technology applications for content areas, including English learners; and immediate activities to facilitate a system and school-wide shift to this approach. Lists of websites and software are annotated. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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