New Book!
“Help, I Can’t Read!”
How to Respond to Struggling Readers in Your Classroom
After three years or research, writing, and production, the book is done! Order yours today.
The author, Carol S. Fitzpatrick, has worked with struggling readers for twenty years, both in the classroom and with her own children. She knows how difficult and frustrating the task can be. She knows the problems that teachers face when trying to implement a “Response to Intervention/Instruction” (RTI) plan:
- Information overload-too much information to assimilate in order to implement a successful intervention plan
- Too much confusion and controversy on reading education issues
- Can’t find “The Big Picture” of effective RTI (no “scaffolding” provided for teachers when their learning curve is nearly vertical)
- RTI requires too much one-on-one assessment right when teachers are trying to get the year off to a good start
- Current progress-monitoring tools aren’t sensitive enough to track actual progress
Do you face any of these problems? If you answered “Yes,” then “Help, I Can’t Read!” is a book you need. Carol found solutions to these problems and shares only the simplest and most effective ones, so teachers will be able to meet the needs of all their students.
Features:
- “Help!” provides a simple overview for responding to the needs of struggling readers in the classroom.
- “Help!” gives easy, step-by-step plans that focus on the most effective methods supported by current research.
- “Help!” is written in simple, conversational language-an easy read for teachers.
- “Help!” introduces the Informal Decoding Inventory (IDI) for assessing your students’ decoding ability in a few quick quizzes administered to the whole class at once. It covers decoding simple alphabet letters through long, multisyllabic words.
“Help!” includes:
- A tool for monitoring progress in decoding which integrates naturally with the IDI. It is also easily adapted to classroom curriculum
- A glossary with simple definitions of terms used in the book
- A “Struggler Success Story” in every chapter to encourage and inspire hope
- Lesson plans with games to reinforce learning
- Hands-on manipulatives
- Sidebars to connect learning to relevant research
- Current research listed in each chapter’s endnotes for digging deeper as well as the References listed in the back
- “Parent Connection” letters to explain and enlist help from parents for a team approach
- Blackline masters of all the forms used in the book