When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

I love this book! As a future teacher, it is very helpful. It gives many tips on how to help your reluctant reader. It also is an easy read and not boring what-so-ever.

This book provides clear prescriptive strategies to aid struggling readers. It is an exellent resource.

Excellent book - a must have! Writer is knowledgeable of real live classroom situations. A plus is the book does not need to be read cover to cover, but you will want to after you start. Excellent resource for middle and high school teachers.

I am a teacher of 5th - 8th grade students who are "dependant" readers. This book offers very well researched methods for instruction that allow teachers to reach and teach their own dependant readers. The writing is clear and respectful to both the reader and their students. The ideas are backed by theory but once read can be implemented the next day. I have seen some of the ideas in practice with the teachers I work with and the students are *really* starting to get meaning from the text.

One day, while at a bookstore, I was looking for a resource book that could help me with our strugging sixth, seventh, and eighth grade readers. In my hands, I held two books and planned to buy one. One book was "When Kids Can't Read, What Teachers Can Do" written by Kylene Beers. I honestly don't remember the name of the other book for, I as looked through the two, it was clear which would be the more useful. I bought Kylene's book and have never looked back! Kylene explains a variety of reading strategies to help readers make meaning of text before they read, as they read, and after they read. Her ideas on vocabulary instruction are some of the most useful I have ever encountered. Kylene addresses how struggling readers also have difficulty with spelling and gives us concrete suggestions to help our readers improve their spelling skills. "Sound it out" does not often work for the struggling reader; a chapter on word recognition is very helpul. Most importantly, Kylene addresses the need for us to create confidence in our struggling readers and she offers suggestions as to how teachers can do this. When Kids Can't Read, What Teachers Can Do is one of the best resources I have found in my thirty years of teaching. I have used this book daily and our students are the beneficiaries. They are becoming life-long readers!