A book that teachers can actually use

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	• When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 Kylene Beers Heinemann, 2002 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When Kids Can't Read

Excellent book. Should be required reading for all elementary school teachers. Provides an excellent resource book for future references.

Helpful, Heartbreaking, and Humorous

I am not inclined to read books related to pedagogy (drier than dust!), but after hearing Dr. Beers speak in Maryland, I became an almost-instant disciple. While I admit that several strategies given in the book have evolved for me over many years of teaching, I also have to consider the difference this book would've made had I had it earlier in my career.

I, too, have had my share of Georges and I struggled to teach them as they persevered to learn.

This book should be a must-read in all school systems, and not only for the Language Arts/English teachers. I am convinced that if school systems spent the money acquainting teachers with Dr. Beers' strategies, vast sums of money would untimately be saved in the long run--and so would countless Georges! Society would benefit immeasurably!

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A book that teachers can actually use

I have read many, many books on reading instruction and research. Through them, I have learned a lot about reading, but none has been as helpful to me as this book. It actually helps teachers with easy-to-implement ideas to help every student in the classroom.

A Fabulous Book

This is an amazingly helpful manual for a problem that is affecting so many of our students. They can decode the words but are unable to make sense or understand what they are reading so they turn off and say that reading is boring! I read small sections of this book every day and couldn't wait to put it into practice. It has worked for English students at Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9. The Anticipation Guide idea has even been extremely valuable for a year 10 Literature class. I cannot recommend this book more highly.

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Eye Opening Book

This is an eye opening book. Sure it seems like common sense after you read it, but wow. I am blown away by the strategies and explanations in this book. This is not a theory book that leaves you asking, "So what do I do now?"

Finally there is a book that defines the problems and gives easy to understand strategies for you to use when working with struggling readers. This book should be required reading for all teachers. You almost want to cry in empathy when you read her notes to George.

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For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.

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