How to Teach Reading Skills to Students with Disabilities: A Simple Approach for All Ages

by Oumou Traore, Rita Hubbard (Editor)

How to Teach Reading Skills to Students with A Simple Approach for All Ages offers a comprehensive reading method and technique to struggling readers. It helps students acquire reading skills through lessons tailored and designed specifically for students with disabilities as well as English language learners. Dr. Oumou Traore is a special education teacher for the New York City Department of Education. Reading has been the most challenging subject her students face. It doesn’t help that most of the students read well below their grade level. This means that books or reading materials that have been assigned for them are simply too difficult. There is a lack of instructional materials designed with special needs students in mind. As a result, Dr. Traore has created and tailored most of her teaching materials for them and was the main reason she developed How to Teach Reading Skills to Students with A Simple Approach for All Ages . Dr. Traore believes special education students need organized, proven methods to help them become the best readers they can be. How to Teach Reading Skills to Students with Disabilities is just such a method. It is a compilation of essential everyday words, word families, and beginning-and-ending blends that students need in order to build a successful foundation in reading.

432 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2017

About the author

"My life began on the Ivory Coast, in West Africa. The year was 1971. I moved to New York, U.S.A., in 1991. In 1999, I graduated from Baruch College in New York City with a Bachelor's in Economics. In 2004, I received a dual Master's degree in both General Education and Special Education from Touro College. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Education from Grand Canyon University."