Overcoming Barricades to Reading - A Multiple Intelligences Approach
Sue Teele

Make breakthroughs with your beginning and struggling readers and your English language learners!

Applying current brain research, social-emotional findings and the theory of multiple intelligences to more traditional approaches to teaching reading, this exciting new book can assist teachers in unlocking the door to literacy by teaching to the individual and unique strengths of their students.

Special features include:
New directions for teaching a comprehensive approach to reading

An overview of the brain's structure and how individual differences influence the reading process

An examination of the theory of multiple intelligences and how its applications can significantly increase the effectiveness of reading and writing instructional methods

Innovative strategies for teaching reading to English language learners

Chapter include: effective comprehension and writing skills; structural techniques such as graphic organizers that assist students in improving decoding, comprehension and writing skills; a multi-faceted, integrated model for teaching the reading process; how children learn to read; the process of learning to read, and the relationship of the brain to teaching reading in addition to the chapters on multiple intelligences and reading and strategies for teaching reading to English language learners

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This book is for teachers, parents, administrators and college professors and can be used in college course on reading.

Carlos Cortes, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Riverside and well-known author of several books states that , "This is a fascinating study.  Sue Teele has provided a compelling challenge to the stultifying one-size-fits-all approach to the teaching of reading.  Her book is a bold and worthy entry in this critical national educational debate."