Word Study with Students Who Struggle: Reading, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, Grades 4 - 12 (formerly titled Words Their Way ) is intended for the middle and secondary classroom teacher. This handy book emphasizes the use of word study with its hands-on, accessible approach, to help students catch up with their peers. This book will help you determine student needs, provide you with the strategies to guide each student toward success in content area comprehension, and even outline ideas for fitting those strategies into your crowded schedule. You'll have the tools you need to help your students acquire the literacy skills they need to meet the ever-increasing demands of middle and high school life.
Hallmark features of this title
- Focuses on specific needs of struggling readers in upper elementary, middle, and high schools.
- Utilizes teacher-directed but student-centered instruction based on a developmental model of word knowledge.
- Uses a two-pronged approach to word knowledge instruction: orthographic knowledge (phonics, spelling, decoding) and vocabulary knowledge.
- Highlights vocabulary activities to address needs across thel#÷