Author: Kevin Flanigan
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462551017
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
No two students in grades 4–8 are identical, and many struggle with literacy for different reasons. Using a teacher-friendly, hands-on approach, this eminently practical book walks educators through the nuts and bolts of literacy intervention in the middle grades. Highlights include “North Star” principles to orient instruction, an assessment flowchart, and extended case studies of three middle-grades learners. The book offers evidence-based intervention practices for targeting specific literacy components, including word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers are guided to plan structured but flexible interventions that promote literacy growth and engagement. Sample lesson plans and clear, engaging figures illustrate how to make literacy intervention work for all students.
Literacy Intervention in the Middle Grades
Author: Kevin Flanigan
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462551017
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
No two students in grades 4–8 are identical, and many struggle with literacy for different reasons. Using a teacher-friendly, hands-on approach, this eminently practical book walks educators through the nuts and bolts of literacy intervention in the middle grades. Highlights include “North Star” principles to orient instruction, an assessment flowchart, and extended case studies of three middle-grades learners. The book offers evidence-based intervention practices for targeting specific literacy components, including word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers are guided to plan structured but flexible interventions that promote literacy growth and engagement. Sample lesson plans and clear, engaging figures illustrate how to make literacy intervention work for all students.
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462551017
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
No two students in grades 4–8 are identical, and many struggle with literacy for different reasons. Using a teacher-friendly, hands-on approach, this eminently practical book walks educators through the nuts and bolts of literacy intervention in the middle grades. Highlights include “North Star” principles to orient instruction, an assessment flowchart, and extended case studies of three middle-grades learners. The book offers evidence-based intervention practices for targeting specific literacy components, including word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers are guided to plan structured but flexible interventions that promote literacy growth and engagement. Sample lesson plans and clear, engaging figures illustrate how to make literacy intervention work for all students.
Triple Double Speed Reading
Author: Dennis Brooks
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1681857154
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The act of reading is a complex mental process characterized by rapid forward and backward eye movements. Research has shown that the eyes do not follow a line of text continuously, but move in short stops and rapid movements. The movements can provide a visual record of the person's reading pattern and show how the information is being received and processed. Fast readers move and fix their eyes on a different spot about four times a second. During the time when their eyes are fixed, new information is brought in and processed. The fixed time periods are measured in thousandths of a second or milliseconds (ms). The duration of the average fixation is 225 ms. A movement lasts about 30 ms; during this time, reception of new visual information is suppressed. This gives the brain time to process the information it has already received and ensures that this older information is understood before new information comes into play. Scan and fixation times can also be measured by individual words. Long and unfamiliar words will have a longer fixation time. Short and familiar words will have a shorter fixation time. The scan time for short one-syllable words can be so brief that it is hardly measurable. Longer one-syllable-words need only one scan and one brief fixation or pause. Multi-syllable words need one complete scan from beginning to end that normally includes a brief pause for each syllable. However, speed readers can scan and read longer words in one movement. By conducting reading research and studying reading habits, scientists have found that the average eye movement distance is about eight characters and the average size word is five characters. This gives fast readers an overlap of three characters. Speed readers have learned to use this overlap along with fewer eye movements to increase their reading speeds.
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1681857154
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The act of reading is a complex mental process characterized by rapid forward and backward eye movements. Research has shown that the eyes do not follow a line of text continuously, but move in short stops and rapid movements. The movements can provide a visual record of the person's reading pattern and show how the information is being received and processed. Fast readers move and fix their eyes on a different spot about four times a second. During the time when their eyes are fixed, new information is brought in and processed. The fixed time periods are measured in thousandths of a second or milliseconds (ms). The duration of the average fixation is 225 ms. A movement lasts about 30 ms; during this time, reception of new visual information is suppressed. This gives the brain time to process the information it has already received and ensures that this older information is understood before new information comes into play. Scan and fixation times can also be measured by individual words. Long and unfamiliar words will have a longer fixation time. Short and familiar words will have a shorter fixation time. The scan time for short one-syllable words can be so brief that it is hardly measurable. Longer one-syllable-words need only one scan and one brief fixation or pause. Multi-syllable words need one complete scan from beginning to end that normally includes a brief pause for each syllable. However, speed readers can scan and read longer words in one movement. By conducting reading research and studying reading habits, scientists have found that the average eye movement distance is about eight characters and the average size word is five characters. This gives fast readers an overlap of three characters. Speed readers have learned to use this overlap along with fewer eye movements to increase their reading speeds.
Gimson's Pronunciation of English
Author: Alan Cruttenden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134669208
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Gimson's Pronunciation of English is an indispensible reference book for anyone invloved in studying or teaching the pronunciation of English.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134669208
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Gimson's Pronunciation of English is an indispensible reference book for anyone invloved in studying or teaching the pronunciation of English.
Speedy Syllables
Author: Bridgette Sharp
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544840475
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Speedy Syllables uses simple and fun activities to help your student decode, spell and understand multisyllabic words. The exercises in this book help your student read and spell words that contain two or more syllables. Speedy Syllables is designed to progress from the simplest multisyllabic forms to the more complex, ensuring that your student understands how to decode and read each type of syllable. Each lesson builds on the last with thorough review built into the lessons. Give your student 30 days to become a better reader!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544840475
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Speedy Syllables uses simple and fun activities to help your student decode, spell and understand multisyllabic words. The exercises in this book help your student read and spell words that contain two or more syllables. Speedy Syllables is designed to progress from the simplest multisyllabic forms to the more complex, ensuring that your student understands how to decode and read each type of syllable. Each lesson builds on the last with thorough review built into the lessons. Give your student 30 days to become a better reader!
Assessing Listening and Spoken Language in Children with Hearing Loss
Author: Tamala S. Bradham
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1597567272
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1597567272
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Physical
Author: James McManus
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374232023
Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The author, a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American, gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality. He has to survive his own cardiovascular system, inherited habits, and genetic handicaps long enough to see his small children into adulthood. But with so much at stake, and in spite of his terror of death, he may not have the willpower to follow the Mayo clinicians' advice. The book negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of our health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem cell research wars. It's a portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.--From publisher description.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374232023
Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The author, a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American, gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality. He has to survive his own cardiovascular system, inherited habits, and genetic handicaps long enough to see his small children into adulthood. But with so much at stake, and in spite of his terror of death, he may not have the willpower to follow the Mayo clinicians' advice. The book negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of our health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem cell research wars. It's a portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.--From publisher description.
Speech and Hearing Science: Selected Readings
Author: Norman J. Lass
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780842203777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780842203777
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Sounds of Language
Author: Henry Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317877764
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Phonetics is the scientific study of sounds used in language- how the sounds are produced, how they are transferred from the speaker to the hearer and how they are heard and perceived. The Sounds of Language provides an accessible, general introduction to phonetics with a special emphasis on English. Focusing on the phonetics of English, the first section allows students to get an overall view of the subject. Two standard accents of English are presented- RP (Received Pronunciation), the standard accent of England, and GA (General American), the standard accent throughout much of North America. The discussion is arranged so that students can read only the RP or GA portions, if desired. Sixteen additional accents of English spoken around the world are also covered to provide students with wider international coverage. The author then moves on to introduce acoustics phonetics in an accessible manner for those without a science background. The last section of the book provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of speech with extensive examples from languages around the world. Containing student-friendly features such as extensive exercises for practising the sounds covered in each chapter; a glossary of technical terms; instructions on how to write phonetic symbols; the latest International Phonetic Alphabet chart and a detailed list of English consonantal variants, The Sounds of Language provides an excellent introduction to phonetics to students of linguistics and speech pathology and students of English as a second language.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317877764
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Phonetics is the scientific study of sounds used in language- how the sounds are produced, how they are transferred from the speaker to the hearer and how they are heard and perceived. The Sounds of Language provides an accessible, general introduction to phonetics with a special emphasis on English. Focusing on the phonetics of English, the first section allows students to get an overall view of the subject. Two standard accents of English are presented- RP (Received Pronunciation), the standard accent of England, and GA (General American), the standard accent throughout much of North America. The discussion is arranged so that students can read only the RP or GA portions, if desired. Sixteen additional accents of English spoken around the world are also covered to provide students with wider international coverage. The author then moves on to introduce acoustics phonetics in an accessible manner for those without a science background. The last section of the book provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of speech with extensive examples from languages around the world. Containing student-friendly features such as extensive exercises for practising the sounds covered in each chapter; a glossary of technical terms; instructions on how to write phonetic symbols; the latest International Phonetic Alphabet chart and a detailed list of English consonantal variants, The Sounds of Language provides an excellent introduction to phonetics to students of linguistics and speech pathology and students of English as a second language.
Handbook of Perception and Action
Author: Herbert Heuer
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080533159
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
This up-to-date handbook focuses on the study of action, or"motor control,"which examines movement and skill and the internal processes that lead to them. As action is interrelated with cognition, this is a vigorous field of investigation.Written by international experts, Motor Skills provides current reviews on general processes important to motor control--learning, coordination, timing, planning, and control--and on the individual skills of throwing, catching, reaching, and typing.The text describes important conceptual and methodological advances regarding control theory and timing, and is divided into two sections which analyze skill from the perspectives of general processes and individual skills.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080533159
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
This up-to-date handbook focuses on the study of action, or"motor control,"which examines movement and skill and the internal processes that lead to them. As action is interrelated with cognition, this is a vigorous field of investigation.Written by international experts, Motor Skills provides current reviews on general processes important to motor control--learning, coordination, timing, planning, and control--and on the individual skills of throwing, catching, reaching, and typing.The text describes important conceptual and methodological advances regarding control theory and timing, and is divided into two sections which analyze skill from the perspectives of general processes and individual skills.
The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences
Author: William J. Hardcastle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118358201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners. Combines new and influential research, along with articulate overviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas of speech communication Accessibly structured into five major sections covering: experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speech production and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speech technology Includes nine entirely new chapters on topics such as phonetic notation and sociophonetics, speech technology, biological perspectives, and prosody A streamlined and re-oriented structure brings all contributions up-to-date with the latest research, whilst maintaining the features that made the first edition so useful
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118358201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners. Combines new and influential research, along with articulate overviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas of speech communication Accessibly structured into five major sections covering: experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speech production and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speech technology Includes nine entirely new chapters on topics such as phonetic notation and sociophonetics, speech technology, biological perspectives, and prosody A streamlined and re-oriented structure brings all contributions up-to-date with the latest research, whilst maintaining the features that made the first edition so useful