Overcoming Barricades to Reading A Multiple Intelligences Approach [Paperback]

This exciting resource helps teachers capitalize on the individual strengths of their students to unlock the door to literacy.This exciting resource helps teachers capitalize on the individual strengths of their students to unlock the door to literacy.Sue Teele has provided a compelling challenge to the stultifying one-size-fits-all approach to the teaching of reading. Her book is a bold and worthy entry in this critical national educational debate.Foreword
Preface
About the Author
1. Introduction
Introduction
Crystallizing and Paralyzing Experiences
Children's Developmental Progressions
2. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - A Vehicle for Learning
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Linguistic Intelligence
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Spatial Intelligence
Musical Intelligence
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence
The Teele Inventory of Multiple Intelligences
3. The Relationship of the Brain to Teaching Reading
The Connections in the Brain Stem, the Limbic System and the Cerebral Cortex
Right and Left Hemispheres
Lobes of the Brain
Neural Branching and Pruning
The Relationship of the Brain to Reading
Three Brain Systems
How Children Acquire Language
4. The Process of Learning to Read
History of the English Language's Oral and Written System
Language and Learning
The Process of Learning to Read
Different Approaches for Teaching Reading
Systematic Phonics Approach
Literature-Based, Whole Language Approach
Studies About Different Reading Approaches
A Multi-faceted, IntegratedlÓ3