Teaching Word Recognition: Effective Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties

by Rollanda E. O'Connor

Most struggling readers, including those with reading disabilities, have difficulties recognizing printed words. This unique, lucidly written book synthesizes the research on how children learn to read words skillfully and translates it into step-by-step strategies for the classroom. The author demonstrates how to plan and implement a coordinated series of lessons that address letter-sound pairings, decoding and blending, multisyllabic words, sight words, and fluency. The proven techniques presented are applicable across the primary grades; in addition, specific guidance is offered for working with older children who are having difficulties. A highly accessible guide, the book features reproducible forms and checklists.

Genres: Education, Teaching

164 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2006

Reviews

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful how-to-read guide, complete with lesson plans. The title is a misnomer, though. This seems like a reading strategy book that would be used in any early elementary classroom. It didn't specifically address alternative strategies special education students may need. The lesson plans were helpful, though, and if I were going into elementary ed, I would refer to this book often.

[Jean Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid review of the research, with some information about application.
p. 62: body-coda more beneficial to work on than onset-rime or single-sound segmenting
p. 63 synthetic phonics instruction better than analytic phonics instruction; also benefits of encoding on decoding
p. 101 58% of all words with prefixes for with the four prefixes un-, re-, in-, and dis-.
pp. 116 118-benefits of morphology instruction
p. 125 example of when re- is not a morpheme
p. 141 “Teachers should understand that attaining meaningful increasing in fluency will require considerable practice.”

[Heather Roche · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful resource for any teacher! Offers explicit information on the science of reading and how to effectively teach students to read.

[Mairéad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some useful research backed suggestions/tips for teaching reading here, would be a good refresher for educators looking to support their pupils who find reading difficult.

[Taylor Panezott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Teacher friends! This book is incredible. I had to read it for one of my classes for school. It’s a great refresher while being a useful resource at the same time.

[Claire Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative

[Jeff La Marca]

non-fiction,reading

[Michelle Picard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well done! Especially enjoyed the early chapters!