Smart Kids, Struggling Readers: The Overlooked Factors and Novel Solutions

by Nickie Simonetti

Overview

This work is a game-changer! Recognizing an all too often tragic outcome (“School to Prison Pipeline”), it provides the tools to alter prognosis. Attention hones the identification and treatment of those underlying and often overlooked causative factors that result in long-term reading failure.



Smart Kids, Struggling Readers. reconsiders the current models and methods for Teaching Reading. It offers creative strategies that support and enhance existing research-based techniques. It provides efficient and effective methods that rapidly ameliorate the overt and subtle interference to skills mastery.

Rapid progress is assured because intervention supports both Academic and Affective needs. The novel instructional plan, Reading In A Nutshell, incorporates the strong intellectual potential bright students bring to task. The learner comes to apply information (metacognition, error analysis, instructional options) as a primary functional tool. Slow-paced repetitive practice and drills are avoided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475848373
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/21/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	363 KB

About the Author

Teaching reading 45+ years, Nickie Simonetti’s experience ranges from Classroom Teacher to Resource Education Program Director. Seeking a better approach for bright struggling students, and frustrated by their all too often tragic outcomes, I was driven to offer these novel strategies and impressions, self-created over the many years.

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: The Introduction

Chapter 1- The Premise

Chapter 2- The Basics

Chapter 3- The Given

Part II: The Method

Chapter 4- Phonics

Factor 1: Sound Awareness

Factor 2: Letter-Sound Association

1. Teaching the Vowels
2. Teaching the Consonants

Factor 3: The Baby Vs. The Bathwater

Chapter 5- Decoding

Factor 1: Linguistic Clusters

Factor 2: Rules and Patterns

Factor 3: Syllable Identification

Chapter 6- Sight Vocabulary

Chapter 7- Contextual Analysis

Chapter 8- Oral Reading

Chapter 9- Fluency

Chapter 10- Comprehension

Chapter 11- Visual Processing

Part One: Books

Part Two: Words

Chapter 12- Phonemic Processing

Chapter 13- Language Processing

Chapter 14- Affective Support

Chapter 15- A Cautionary Tale

Part III: The Practice

Chapter 16- Guidelines

Chapter 17- Application

Chapter 18- Informal Assessment

Appendix

References
Postscript

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Ms. Simonetti’s approach works…she combines science, art and heart. No one is better at helping children reach their academic and personal best! We are fortunate to have her insights now available to us all.

L. McLaughlin

Thank you for continuing a project that is so necessary to those struggling but bright kids!

P. Hannah

Wonderful, energetic, a game changer. Remember that exciting feeling you had after attending a conference or inservice? You couldn't wait to incorporate the ideas into your lesson plans. Well, this book, gives that same feeling.

A. Gaydos

Nickie Simonetti has a gift, grounded in theory and enhanced by her creativity, and she is now sharing it publicly. Nickie and I first worked together 40 years ago at a diagnostic learning center. Our paths crossed again about 15 years later as my daughter's academic struggles created emotional ones. Their work together transformed my daughter into an eager learner excited by new learning opportunities.

C. Nobel

Dyslexic kids need strategies that break things down and make sense. Not more of the same old things we have been doing without success. This book offers practical advice and information to break the code for the dyslexic learner.

P. Klien

This book is a must read. Nickie Simonetti gives great insight into students struggling with today’s school models of learning She brings out their creative and innovative potential. A godsend to all whose lives she touches.

K. Arpin

Smart Kids, Struggling Readers offers a plan that provides effective methods for teachers and positive results for students. I applaud the approach.

M. Olbaum

I'm forever grateful to Nickie Simonetti for teaching me how to learn, study and to embrace my differences. My success today, personally and professionally, is truly due to her. Now that she is sharing her teaching method in a book I can only imagine how many more lives she will change!

M. Babson