Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-Based Research to Maximize Learning

by Carol A. Lyons

Book Overview

Marie Clay, in her foreword, says that this important book will help raise the profile for what is needed to get all children off to a good start in education. And a good place to start is with Carol Lyons.

Lyons does a masterful job of introducing teachers to the concepts, categories, language, and arguments pertaining to the brain's control of what readers do. She offers a new way of thinking about learning, about how the mind develops,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325004358
• ISBN13: 9780325004358
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Good Text

Although my course didn't use this book very much, I found it to be a good insightful text on how to work with students in the area of reading.

Teaching

I thought the book arrived in a timely manner and that it was reieved in good condition.