Contextualized Language Intervention: Scaffolding PreK–12 Literacy Achievement E-Book

Target Group: Grades PreK–12

A breakthrough resource for speech–language pathology students and practitioners, Contextualized Language Intervention guides readers in providing intervention in the context of meaningful, literacy-based activities while still maintaining a therapeutic focus. Leaders in the field explain methods grounded in sound theory and backed by scientific research. Each chapter contains practical ideas you can use to develop students’ skills in:

• Narrative and Expositive Structures
• Morphosyntax
• Vocabulary
• Peer Interactions
• Culture of the Classroom
• Emergent Literacy
• Phonemic Awareness
• Reader’s Theatre and Children’s Literature
• Text Comprehension
• and Self-Regulation.

Leading experts describe intervention methods that emphasize RISE: Repeated opportunities for Intensive interaction with systematic Scaffolding of Explicitly targeted skills. Readers learn to maintain a therapeutic focus while engaging children in meaningful, literacy-based activities.

IDEA and NCLB require research-based intervention that targets progress in the curriculum. Each chapter of Contextualized Language Intervention gives you exactly that. You get clear descriptions and examples of motivating, curriculum-based intervention that maintain a therapeutic focus. Access the many useful reproducible forms in Additional Resources.

(Reproducibles: App8 p384–387, App11 p502, App12B–E p559–563)

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641 pages • E-Book • ©2006

To see more of this product's contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Table of Contents