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- Title
Precision Reading: New hope for struggling readers.
- Authors
Freeze, Rick
- Abstract
A rationale for a novel approach to remedial reading for struggling readers, including students labeled with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, attention deficit and behavior disorders, below average language development, and those described as reluctant or resistant readers is presented. It is suggested that struggling readers find Precision Reading, a new approach to remedial reading emphasizing fluency, whole word knowledge, and guided passage comprehension instruction in meaningful curriculum-based materials drawn from classroom reading tasks; easier, more relevant, and more motivating than traditional approaches. It is argued that traditional approaches often distance students from the classroom and curriculum and emphasize decoding, in an ineffectual attempt to teach them to simultaneously construct meaning and deconstruct text. The method of Precision Reading is then described and explained and research into its efficacy with struggling readers and practicality for educators is reviewed.
- Subjects
REMEDIAL reading teaching; CHILDREN with learning disabilities; READING strategies; COMPREHENSION strategies; FLUENCY (Language learning); CHILDREN with disabilities -- Language; CHILDREN with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Publication
Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2006, Vol 7, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
1555-6913
- Publication type
Article