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ORC Resource Number #5842
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What About Me? Strategies for Teaching Misunderstood Learners [excerpt]: Chapter 2, "Numbers and Letters, Stand Still!"
PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY

Written by a compassionate author who is herself dyslexic, this chapter excerpt explains the difficulties our students face with comprehending text. Using anecdotes and relating poignant moments from her own childhood experience, the author discusses in depth decoding, comprehension, phonics, graphic organizers, multi-media, classroom assumptions, vocabulary, visual learning, emotional impact on students, books on tape, colored transparencies, magnifying aids, and highlighters and highlighting tape. (author/bebrown)

OHIO STANDARDS
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English Language Arts Standards
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
NATIONAL STANDARDS
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Standards for the English Language Arts
Range of materials and purposes for reading
Reading strategies, language use, and conventions
RESOURCE TYPE
Professional Resource
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
Grades 6–12
TOPICS
English Language Arts --
Reading-Strategies & Skills;
Vocabulary;
Reading;
Professional Development;
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KEYWORDS
adolescent literacy;
decoding;
vocabulary;
graphic organizers;
books on tape;
colored transparencies;
highlighters;
reading disability;
comprehension
Publisher: Heinemann
Author: Christopher Lee and Rosemary Jackson