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Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning
Difficulties Janette K. Klingner, Sharon Vaughn, and Alison
Boardman A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 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 include discussion questions in every
chapter and reproducible instructional materials and lesson
plans. This title is part of the What Works for Special-Needs
Learners Series, edited by Karen R. H