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.

Teaching reading 45+ years,Nickie Simonettis 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.

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

Teaching the VowelsTeaching 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