When Kids Cant Read What Teachers Can Do by Kylene Beers

When Kids Cant Read What Teachers Can Do by Kylene Beers

For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text. Others couldn't even pronounce the words. And that was the year she met a boy named George.

George couldn't read. When George's parents asked her to explain what their son's reading difficulties were and what she was going to do to help, Kylene, a secondary certified English teacher with no background in reading, realized she had little to offer the parents, even less to offer their son. That defining moment sent her on a twenty-three-year search for answers to that original question: how do we help middle and high schoolers who can't read?

Now in her critical and practical text When Kids Can't Read - What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12, Kylene shares what she has learned and shows teachers how to help struggling readers with

• comprehension
• vocabulary
• fluency
• word recognition
• motivation

Here, Kylene offers teachers the comprehensive handbook they've needed to help readers improve their skills, their attitudes, and their confidence. Filled with student transcripts, detailed strategies, reproducible material, and extensive booklists, this much-anticipated guide to teaching reading both instructs and inspires.

Kylene Beers, Ed.D., is a former middle school teacher who has made a primary focus of her research, writing, speaking, and teaching on teenage reading and struggling readers. She is the author of the best-selling When Youngsters Can't Read/What Teachers Can Do, co-editor of Adolescent Literacy: Putting Promise into Practice (with Bob Probst and Linda Rief), and co-author (with Bob Probst) of Notice and Note: Techniques for Close Reading and Reading Nonfiction, Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies (all published by Heinemann). She taught in the University of Houston's Faculty of Education, worked as a Senior Reading Researcher at Yale University's Comer School Development Program, and most recently served as the Senior Reading Adviser to Secondary Schools for Teachers College's Reading and Writing Project. Kylene has authored numerous articles for state and national publications, served as editor of Voices from the Middle, a national literacy journal, and served as President of the National Council of Teachers of English from 2008 to 2009. She speaks at state, national, and international conferences and works with elementary, middle, and high school teachers around the United States.

Kylene has worked as a consultant for the National Governors Association and received the Outstanding Leader Award from the Conference on English Leadership in 2011. Kylene is now a literacy consultant for schools both nationally and globally, working alongside her partner and co-author Bob Probst.

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ISBN 13	9780867095197
ISBN 10	0867095199
Title	When Kids Cant Read What Teachers Can Do
Author	Kylene Beers
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Heinemann USA
Year published	2002-10-22
Number of pages	400
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.