Authors:Sharon R. Vaughn, Joanna P. Williams,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: exceptionality, issue, special, reading
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-12-07
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0805895329
ISBN-13: 9780805895322

Research from the special education community provides an excellent resource of scientifically based reading research that can influence instruction for students with disabilities, as well as other students at risk for reading difficulties. This special issue features the work of four researchers and their teams who have contributed to the excellent research base on reading practices for students with disabilities and those at risk for reading difficulties. In addition, the articles also: Discuss the importance of including expository text in reading comprehension and instruction and outline t

Authors:Sharon Vaughn, Sylvia Linan-Thompson,
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Keywords: instruction, grades, reading, methods, based, research
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 2004-08
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0871209462
ISBN-13: 9780871209467

What does research tell us about how teachers can most effectively help young students learn to read? In Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3, Sharon Vaughn and Sylvia Linan-Thompson explore the research on reading, providing a comprehensive overview of the five core instructional areas and how each affects student achievement: * Phonemic awareness * Phonics and Word Study * Fluency * Vocabulary * Comprehension The authors include dozens of reading activities and lesson plans that teachers can use immediately, all of which have worked in actual classrooms and are

Authors:Janette K. Klingner PhD, Sharon Vaughn PhD, Alison B
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: works, special, needs, learners, difficulties, learning, reading, comprehension, students, teaching
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2007-04-11
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1593854471
ISBN-13: 9781593854478

A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features

Authors:Kate Kinsella, Sharon Vaughn, Kevin Feldman, Don Desh
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Keywords: penguin, grade, literature, hall, experience, prentice, american
Number of Pages: 1379
Published: 2005-05-15
List price: $110.75
ISBN-10: 0131317199
ISBN-13: 9780131317192

Authors:Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs, Sharon Vaughn, Douglas
Publisher: International Reading Association
Keywords: educators, reading, framework, intervention, response
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-06-11
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0872076229
ISBN-13: 9780872076228

Written with reading professionals firmly in mind, this book tells you what you need to know to implement RTI well in your school or district. Leading experts in literacy and special education describe a three-tier approach that begins with effective instruction for all children, moves to preventive tutoring through a variety of approaches, and concludes with a reformed conceptualization of special education. Key to the approach is using assessment to identify students at risk, monitor student progress, and guide appropriate instructional support. Essential reading for administrators, reading

Author: Carter Vaughn (Carter Vaughn Findley) FindleyJohn
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: world, century, twentieth
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2011-01-01
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0547218508
ISBN-13: 9780547218502

Equipping readers with a solid understanding of "the big picture," the new Seventh Edition of Findley and Rothney’s best-selling TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD thoroughly covers recent world history by focusing on themes of global interrelatedness, identity and difference, the rise of mass society, and technology versus nature. This unique thematic approach helps readers effectively place historical events in a larger context. Extensively revised and updated, the Seventh Edition integrates the latest, dramatic phases in world history, including more in-depth coverage of the economic growth of I

Authors:Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: science, lea, communication, series, controversial, new, uncertainty, media, coverage, communicating
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0805827285
ISBN-13: 9780805827286

Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science journalists who have covered these issues; and that of scientists who have been actively involved in researching uncertain science and talking to reporters about it. In particular, Communicating Uncertainty examines how well the mass media convey to the public the complexities, ambiguities, and controversi