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Focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. This work illuminates the nature of writing difficulties and offers suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence and text levels.

Presents research on comprehension problems experienced by children without any formal diagnosis, as well as those with specific language impairment, ADHD, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, head injuries, and spina bifida. This book also deals with typical development and the key cognitive skills that underlie successful comprehension.

Presents evidence-based practices for integrating language and literacy knowledge for children's learning in standards-based classrooms. This book focuses on day-to-day concerns in instruction and intervention, identifying models for effective collaboration among speech-language pathologists, general and special educators, and reading specialists.

Describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum.

This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the classroom, illustrated with vivid examples. Particular attention is given to ways in which learning English is intertwined with learning the student's home language. The book addresses both assessment and instruction for typically developing ELLs and those with language disabilities and disorders. It demonstrates how educators and speech-language professionals can draw on students' linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and family resources to help close the achievement gap.