Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills

Editor: Judith R. Birsch, Ed.D.

     This is probably one of the most up-to-date and comprehensive books currently available on the teaching of Reading - especailly to people with severe reading problems. As indicated by the chapter titles and contributors, it combines the knowledge, research, expertise and practice of many of the acknowledged leaders in the fields of reading and dyslexia. It should be a "must buy" for every teacher, K-8, who needs to teach reading, or those teachers or tutors working with students with any type of reading problem, and especially teachers of students with learning disabilities and/or students with dyslexia - of any age. You will find this text to be extremely informative as well as containing excellent, step-by-step strategies on "how to teach reading."

Chapter Titles and Contributors:

Chapter 1 - Multisensory Instruction; Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D., and Mary L. Farrell, Ph.D.
Chapter 2 - Development of Oral Language and Its Relationship to Literacy; Lydia H. Soifer, Ph.D
Chapter 3 - Phonological Awareness and Reading ; Joanna K. Uhry, Ed.D.
Chapter 4 - Alphabet Knowlege; Kay A. Allen, M.Ed., with Marilyn C. Beckwith, B.A.
Chapter 5 - A Short History of the English Language; Marcia K. Henry, Ph.D.
Chapter 6 - Teaching Reading - Accurate Decoding and Fluency; Suzanne Carreker, B.A.
Chapter 7 - Teaching Comprehension from a Multisensory Perspective; Margaret Taylor Smith, M.Ed.
Chapter 8 - Teaching Spelling; Suzanne Carreker, B.A.
Chapter 9 - Teaching Handwriting; Lynn Stempel-Mathey, M.A., and Beverly J. Wolf, M.Ed.
Chapter 10 - Composition - Expressive Language and Writing; Judith C. Hochman, Ed.D.
Chapter 11 - Multisensory Mathematics Instruction; Margaret B. Stern, M.Ed.
Chapter 12 - Applying Multisensory Techniques to Interdisciplinary Studies; Cecily Selling, M.S., and Dorothy Flanagan, M.S.

Chapter 13 - Organization and Study Skills; Claire Nissenbaum, M.A.
Chapter 14 - Assessment of Progress; Margaret Jo Shepherd, Ed.D.
Chapter 15 - Transition to the General Classroom and Contenst Areas; Shry Maskel, Ed.D.
Chapter 16 - Reading and Writing Instruction in Adult Basic Education; Joan R. Knight, M.A., M.S.
Chapter 17 - Working with the High-Functioning Dyslexic; Susan H. BlumenthalEd.D.
Chapter 18 - Parenting the Child with Dyslexia; Betty S. Levinson, Ph.D