Contextualized Language Intervention: Scaffolding PreK–12 Literacy Achievement

Details: 639 pages • 7 x 10, Softcover

ISBN13: 978-1-416-40413-2

Release Date: 2006

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.