High-Low Handbook: Encouraging Literacy in the 1990s

by Ellen V. LiBretto

Overview

High/Low Handbook helps you understand—and satisfy—the needs of disabled (below fourth-grade reading level) or reluctant (lacking in motivation) junior high and senior high readers. This practical resource guides you to a core collection of over 400 recommended books, magazines, software, and other nonprint materials. Incisive essays by practitioners and specialists in the field discuss such literacy efforts as reading with closed-captioned TV, using computers to capture reading attention, and the California Reading Initiative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780835228046
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/1998
Series:	Serving Special Needs Series
Edition description:	3rd ed
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

Editorial Reviews

The main body of the book, "The Core collection", includes 312 high/low books recommended for the disabled reader, many which are useful as a component in English as a Second Language programs. One hundred titles are listed for the reluctant reader--one who associates reading with difficulty, failure, and embarrassment. Arranged alphabetically by title, each entry provides, when available, author, title, publisher, price, number of pages, ISBN, and whether fiction or nonfiction, reading level as determined by the Fry Readability Scale, interest level, and a critical annotation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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