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When Kids Can't Read-What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers, 6-12
 
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This is a book to drive a retired teacher back into teaching
 
Review Date: December 18, 2002
Reviewer: R. ebook Writing G. Hedrick, Reno, NV
This isn't just revolutionary; it's revelationary. This is a book to make any teacher who has ever taught from 6 th grade on up have hope once more. It arms you with weapons of mass instruction, specific mass instruction. It brings a reader to the land of read and reread, much as the writing project brought the writer into the land of rewrite. So many techniques, so many strategies, so many ok methods that beguile the mind and break the heart of the retired teacher: 'where were you when I needed you'??????

One of the reasons I floated slowly downward in the grade levels the longer I taught was the diversity of reading levels. Had I known that it's okay to reread, to real aloud, to think aloud, to say something aloud about what you are reading, I might still be teaching.

Kylene's book is full of devotion and passion and subtle but strong excitement: there is hope for the adolescent reader, the dependent reader, the below grade level reader. There is hope.

Read Kylene's book and share the hope!

Practical & a Good Read
 
Review Date: September 17, 2005
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Having been to Ms. Beers' presentation at "Reading For the Love of It" in Totonto, I could not wait to get my hands on this book. She has presented a wealth of information and strategies in a way that allows you to understand the purpose behind the practice. I have found many ways of implementing these practices for my First Nations students that help them feel more successful and produce results that demonstrate their learning with clarity and greater precision. Well worth the price.
This is a winner! Every MS and HS teachers needs to read it
 
Review Date: December 19, 2002
Reviewer: R. ebook Writing G. Hedrick, Reno, NV
Passion. Voice. Soul. Reality. This book has all of this and more. It has substance. I wish I had been given this book when i was teaching Middle School and High School. I wish I had known then what I have now learned, now that I am a retired teacher after 37 years of teaching.

This is a book that makes sense in all its many pages, as to what teachers can and ought to do, WHEN KIDS CAN'T READ. I loved the idea that 'it's okay to reread a book!' duh. (Why didn't I think of that?) I loved 'think alouds'. I loved 'say something'. I loved all the methods given because I know they work--she presents the word for word classroom dialogue to show how they work.

Here is a book that reaches out and touches you, no, more, it reaches out and grabs you by the eyeballs to look, to look again; to read, and read again; to model the methods and model them again.

Am I being paid for this to say this? No! Do I even know Kylene Beers? no. Do I love this book and think it is a savior to poor adolescent readers everywhere? A resounding YES !!!

Librarian's Treasure
 
Review Date: June 16, 2004
Reviewer: Lois Buckman, Conroe, TX 77306
I am a librarian who finds this book to be of great use for teachers in my school who are trying to reach struggling readers. Her ideas are practical, grounded in research and adaptable to individual curriculum and school needs.
I was surprised to see that someone who had not read the book was making comments on a small section of appended material. Yes, errors do occur in all texts, and that is regrettable. However, neither of the examples of the mistakes in Appendix M would keep students from locating the books mentioned. As a school librarian I constantly have kids asking me to help them locate books. Sometimes I am lucky if I get a clue such as "I think it had a blue cover" to go on. I certainly could show students how to use an OLCC to locate books by either author or by title or through other methods. Plus, I have a storehouse of knowledge as the librarian about good books and authors. Dr. Beers has provided some excellent titles, several hundred of them as I recall, to motivate reluctant readers. I compliment her for including such an exhaustive list in a text aimed at practical strategies to help assist kids in becoming readers.
One Struggling Reader at a Time
 
Review Date: June 17, 2004
Reviewer: Elizabeth Church, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
When Kids Can't Read, What Teachers Can Do by Kylene Beers has been inspirational and life-changing for teachers in our district. As Language Arts Instructional Specialist, working closely with the Middle Level Coordinator for a large school district, we are constantly seeking methods and materials that will enhance reading instruction and advance literacy. When Kids Can't Read provides hands-on strategies for improved reading instruction that our teachers embrace and implement immediately in their classrooms. Teachers in our district have used this book as the focus of professional literary circles, as a guide in reading classes for reluctant readers, and as the foundation to improved reading instruction across the curriculum. I have read this book cover to cover; it is an essential book for all educators striving to make a difference one struggling reader at a time.

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