Teaching Reading to Students Who Are At Risk or Have Disabilities

At a time when public focus on children who struggle with learning to read has never been greater, Bursuck and Damer’s Teaching Reading to Students Who Are at Risk or Have Disabilities does an extraordinary job of answering the charge to help all students succeed at reading. The 3rd Edition describes, in a clear, step-by-step fashion, how to implement a systematic, explicit, success-oriented approach for teaching struggling readers in today’s accountability driven schools. When recently evaluated in terms of relating to the Common Core Standards in Early Reading, it was described as one of the few texts “comprehensively and rigorously covering the scientific basis and instructional elements of the 5 essential components of effective reading instruction.” Integrated throughout are authentic, research-validated, reality-based strategies, accessible language and video demonstrations, and checks for student understanding.