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Teaching Teachers To Teach By Teaching Readers To Read, Dawan Coombs
Teaching Teachers To Teach By Teaching Readers To Read, Dawan Coombs
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Struggling readers fill today’s secondary classrooms in alarming numbers. Although numerous programs remediate these readers, research shows students need more than strategy instruction to read successfully. Reading difficulties result from a complex combination of social, cognitive, and affective factors that can only be addressed through meaningful instruction within the context of trusting student-teacher relationships using approaches that draw on students’ interests and cultures.