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Overcoming Barricades to Reading

A Multiple Intelligences Approach

By: Sue Teele

Make breakthroughs with your beginning and struggling readers!

Applying current brain research, social-emotional findings, and the theory of multiple intelligences to more traditional approaches to teaching reading, this exciting resource helps teachers unlock the door to literacy by teaching to the individual and unique strengths of their students. Special features include:

New directions for teaching reading
An overview of the brain's structure and how individual differences influence the reading process
An examination of the theory of multiple intelligences and its application
Case studies and charts illustrating techniques that will improve decoding, comprehension, and writing skills
Innovative strategies for teaching reading to English Language Learners

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931409
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2004
Page Count: 232
Publication date: March 23, 2004

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Description

"This is a fascinating study. Sue Teele has provided a compelling challenge to the stultifying one-size-fits-all approach to the teaching of reading. Her book is a bold and worthy entry in this critical national educational debate."
Carlos Cortes, Professor Emeritus of History
University of California, Riverside

Make breakthroughs with your beginning and struggling readers!

Special features include:

New directions for teaching reading
An overview of the brain's structure and how individual differences influence the reading process
An examination of the theory of multiple intelligences and how its application can significantly increase the effectiveness of traditional reading and writing instructional methods
Case studies, practical diagrams, maps and charts illustrating techniques that will improve decoding, comprehension, and writing skills
Innovative strategies for teaching reading to English Language Learners

Dr. Teele's multifaceted integrated model for teaching reading will help teachers instill in their students a joy for reading while they are developing their reading skills and enhancing their creative potential. Teachers, administrators, and parents alike will be amazed by the leaps and bounds their struggling readers make!

Key features

Will appeal to elementary teachers, MI/brain-based learning devotees, reading specialists.
Contains vignettes to illustrate points, practical activities and assessment strategies for each intelligence, and visual aids.
Will cluster well with reading books, MI/Brain books, K-8 teaching titles

Author(s)

Sue Teele

Sue Teele, PhD is the author of several books, including The Multiple Intelligences School: A Place for All Students to Succeed, and a spatial inventory, The Teele Inventory for Multiple Intelligences. She is the Director of Education Extension at the University of California, Riverside, where she administers over 20 different programs for 8,000 to 10,000 educators a year. She created the first and only certificate in the study of multiple intelligences in the world. She is also the director of the Renaissance Project, a research study that examines the theory of multiple intelligences and its impact in the educational setting.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

About the Author

1. Introduction

Introduction

Crystallizing and Paralyzing Experiences

Children's Developmental Progressions

2. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - A Vehicle for Learning

The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Linguistic Intelligence

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

Spatial Intelligence

Musical Intelligence

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Interpersonal Intelligence

The Teele Inventory of Multiple Intelligences

3. The Relationship of the Brain to Teaching Reading

The Connections in the Brain Stem, the Limbic System and the Cerebral Cortex

Right and Left Hemispheres

Lobes of the Brain

Neural Branching and Pruning

The Relationship of the Brain to Reading

Three Brain Systems

How Children Acquire Language

4. The Process of Learning to Read

History of the English Language's Oral and Written System

Language and Learning

The Process of Learning to Read

Different Approaches for Teaching Reading

Systematic Phonics Approach

Literature-Based, Whole Language Approach

Studies About Different Reading Approaches

A Multi-faceted, Integrated Approach for Teaching Reading

Characteristics of a Multi-faceted Model for Teaching Reading

5. The Reading Process

How Children Learn to Read

Phonics, Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Awareness

Phonics

Phonemic Awareness

Ways to Teach Phonemic Awareness

Phonological Awareness

Alphebet Knowledge

Metalinguistic Awareness

Automaticity

Activities to Assist Beginning Readers in Relating Phonemic Awareness to Vocabulary Development

The Role of Spelling in the Reading Process

Sounds in Language

The Translation Process of Reading

6. Comprehension and Writing Skills

Oral Language

Teaching Students to Comprehend What They are Reading

An Overview of Comprehension Strategies, Approaches for Teaching These Strategies and Intelligences That Match Each Strategy

Text Structure

Teaching Students to Write

The Progression From Reading to Writing

7. Structural Techniques That Assist Students in Improving Decoding, Comprehension and Writing Skills

Venn Diagram

Timeline

Sequence of Events Chain

Clusters/Webs or Mapping

Synonym Web

Word Map

Semantic Word Map

Concept Map

Descriptive Map

Word Webs

Diagramming of Sentences

Concept Wheel or Circle

Sound Wheel

Storyboard

Story Pyramid

Pictorial Input

T-Chart

Graphic Organizer and Multiple Intelligences Chart

8. Strategies for Integrating the Theory of Multiple Intelligences Into Teaching Reading

The Relationship of Spatial Intelligence Into Teaching Reading

Integrating Musical Intelligence Into Teaching Reading

Activities That Utilize Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence to Teach Decoding and Vocabulary Skills

Teaching Reading to Logical-Mathematical Learners

Activities Using Multiple Intelligences to Assist in Developing Comprehension Skills

Rainbow Unit That Demonstrates Integration of Multiple Intelligences Into Teaching Reading, Writing and Comprehension Skills

Using Computer-Assisted Instruction to Support Teaching Reading Through Multiple Intelligences

The Role of Multiple Intelligences in Teaching Reading

9. Teaching Reading to English Language Learners

Teaching Reading to English Language Learners

Integration of Oral and Written Language for Both Native and English Language Learners

Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners

The Developmental Process of Learning and Language

Case Study of an English Language Learner

Current Studies on Teaching Reading to English Language Learners

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners to Read

10. Conclusions

Concluding Remarks

Re-Direction for Teaching Reading

References

Reviews

“Sue Teele has provided a compelling challenge to the stultifying one-size-fits-all approach to the teaching of reading. Her book is a bold and worthy entry in this critical national educational debate.”

Carlos Cortes, Professor Emeritus of History
University of California, Riverside

Other Titles in: Differentiation & Multiple Intelligences | Elementary Teaching Methods | Literacy, K-12

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