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About the Online Companion Materials About the Editors About the Contributors Foreword Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D. Preface Acknowledgements Dedication Section I: Introduction to Multisensory Teaching 1.Connecting Research and Practice Judith R. Birsh 2.Structured Literacy Instruction Mary L. Farrell and Nancy Cushen White Section II: Pre-reading/Literacy Skills 3.Oral Language Development and Its Relationship to Literacy Lydia Soifer 4.Pre-Kindergarten Literacy Eve Robinson, Carolyn DeVito, and Gloria Trabucco Alphabet Knowledge: Letter Recognition, Naming, and Sequencing Kay A. Allen, with Graham F. Neuhaus and Marilyn C. Beckwith 6. Teaching Phonemic Awareness Lucy Hart Paulson Section III: Beginning Reading/literacy Skills 7. Assessment of Reading Skills: A Review of Select Key Ideas and Best Practices Eileen S. Marzola and Larry E. Hess 8.The Role of Executive Function in Literacy Instruction Monica Gordon-Pershey 9.Teaching Reading: Accurate Decoding Suzanne Carreker 10. Teaching Spelling Suzanne Carreker 11. Multi-Modal handwriting Instruction for Pencil and Technology Tools Beverly J. Wolf and Virginia Berninger 12. Fluency in Learning to Read: Conceptions, Misconceptions, Learning Disabilities, and Instructional Moves Katherine Garnett 13. Math Learning Disabilities & Katherine Garnett and Colleen Uscianowski Section III: Advanced Reading/Literacy Skills 14. The History and Structure of Written English Marcia K. Henry 15. Working With Word Meaning: Vocabulary Instruction Nancy Hennessy 16. Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension in the Multisensory Classroom Eileen S. Marzola 17. Composition: Evidence-Based Instruction Judith C. Hochman and Betsy Duffy 18. Designing the Learning Environment and Planning Multisensory Structured Literacy Lessons Judith R. Birsh, Jean Schedler, and Robin Singer Section IV: Instructional Strategies for Specific Populations and Skill Areas 19. Language and Literacy Development Among English Language Learners Elsa Cardenas-Hagan 20. Instruction for Older Students with a Word-Level Reading Disability Barbara A. Wilson 21. Working with High Functioning Adults with Dyslexia and Other Learning Challenges Susan Blumenthal Glossary