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3) McKenna
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Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
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"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled "stupid"--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--Provided by publisher....
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"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
14) Claudia's friend
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Claudia and her friend Shea work together to overcome their problems with reading and and spelling due to dyslexia.
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How do you homeschool a child with dyslexia? This book will tell you exactly what you need! It answers questions like: What is dyslexia? How can I know if my child has dyslexia? What are the special teaching techniques I need to use when teaching my child? What are the special strengths of a child with dyslexia? After you read this book, you will feel confident that you have the special knowledge you need to teach your child in a loving, home environment....
17) Developing independent readers: Strategy-oriented reading activities for learners with special needs
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A practical resource for special education and reading teachers, combines whole language experiences and phonics skills activities that enable students to read for meaning and recognize and recall words on their own.