Overview

Neurologist and middle school teacher Judy Willis connects what you do in the classroom to what happens in the brain when students learn how to read, including:

• Why a classroom has to be safe and supportive in order to overcome barriers to reading fluency
  
• How to jumpstart students who are not well prepared for reading with activities that build phonemic awareness
  
• Why helping students identify and use patterns is vital to effective reading instruction
  
• How to enhance students' vocabulary processing by relating to their learning styles and prior knowledge, and engaging them in multisensory learning
  
• Why strategies for teaching reading comprehension need to change with each step of the comprehension process

With each revelation about the neurology of reading instruction, Willis provides whole-class and individualized activities, lessons, and units that you can use in every grade and subject to help all students become better readers.

(ASCD book, 2008) 6" x 9", 177 pages.


Also available as an eBook!

Related Resources:

• Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice
  
• Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems
  
• Teaching the Adolescent Brain (DVD with Facilitator's Guide)
  
• Teaching the Adolescent Brain (DVD with Facilitator's Guide)