Designing Meaning-Based Interventions for Struggling Readers

I. Background Information

1. Instruction and Interventions

2. Educational Research and Theoretical Models

3. Understanding the Reading Process

4. Coming to a Common Understanding

II. Elements of a Meaning-Based Intervention for Reading

5. How a Meaning-Based Intervention for Reading Works

6. Language Experience Activities

7. Word Work

8. Sight Words and Scope and Sequence Carts

9. Word Identification Strategies

10. Cloze and Maze Activities: Semantic Cueing

11. Writing for Reading

12. Fluency

13. Comprehension

14. Reading Practice (More, Please)

III. Diagnosing, Assessing, and Monitoring Progress

15. Standardized Tests

16. Diagnosing the Problem

17. Progress Monitoring

IV. Individualized Education Programs

18. Individualized Education Programs for Reading

19. Peer-Reviewed Research

V. Designing Reading Interventions

20. Response-to-Intervention Particulars

21. Scientifically Based Research

22. When the Gold Standard Is Un-Golden: A Review of Torgesen et al. (2009)

23. Evaluating Research

24. Students with Dyslexia

VI. Issues in Special Education

25. Problems in the Special Education World

Epilogue

References

Index