Why Jane and John Couldn’t Read—And How They Learned

A New Look at Striving Readers

Rosalie Fink

“You will come away thinking more positively about your own striving readers and how to help them feel excited and successful about reading.”
— Voices from the Middle

“Offers suggestions that are bound to increase teacher awareness of the need to galvanize early remediation efforts.”
— American Psychological Association

Here is a model of reading ideal for striving readers, focused on their personal interests, topic-specific reading, deep background knowledge, contextual reading strategies, and mentoring support. More important, the model moves away from a deficit approach to conceptualize striving readers in a new way.

Chapters share success stories of readers who overcome their struggles and highlight instructional strategies and materials you can use to develop activities and lessons for children and adults. Use this research-based model in the classroom or at home to help your striving readers achieve high levels of literacy.

An IRA Book Club selection, April 2006

© 2006 | 192 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-592-3 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-592-4

Also of interest:

Celebrating Language With Adult Literacy Students

No Quick Fix, The RTI Edition

Inspiring Reading Success

Discovering What Works for Struggling Readers

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