Word callers are so focused

on letters and decoding that their

minds don’t knit together the

meaning of the words they are

reading. The diverse interventions

in this book all address this

inflexibility, helping these children

become better able to process

meaning alongside letter-sound

information.

—Kelly Cartwright”

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Grades 1–5 / 978-0-325-02693-0 / 2010 / 192pp / $25.00

Prices subject to change.

Visit www.heinemann.com to read Sample Chapters of our books and order online.

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Fast, effective, research-based interventions for struggling readers

Have you ever zoned out during reading—pronounced the words, without processing their meaning? This is how “word callers” experience all reading. In fact, strong decoders

with limited comprehension account for nearly a third of all struggling readers. Now there’s powerful new hope for them in Word Callers.

Visit www.heinemann.com to read Sample Chapters of our books and order online.

To order by phone call 800.225.5800 or fax 877.231.6980.Dedicated to Teachers

A centerpiece of Word Callers is an assessment and intervention developed by Kelly Cartwright that uses word and picture cards to measure and support readers’ sound-meaning flexibility—an ideal resource for Tier 2 and Tier 3 RTI instruction. Kelly’s research shows that your word callers can “unglue” from print and improve their comprehension in as few as 5 lessons.

With Word Callers you’ll help students in individual or small-group settings begin to make meaning and then build on their newfound skill :

n Assessments based on included word cards help identify inflexible readers.

n Straightforward, research-tested interventions help turn readers around fast.

n Engaging lessons with wordplay, word and picture cards, comprehension strategies, and more support the transition from word callers into full-time meaning makers.

“My hope in writing Word Callers,” writes Kelly Cartwright, “is to share insights into what

makes word callers tick, as well as effective interventions that can help these children learn to

enjoy the rich meaningful world of reading that they are missing.” Her research has long focused

on the importance of flexible thinking for skilled comprehension, and her word-and-picture card

assessment and intervention developed as she observed that some students could read fluently

but had surprising difficulty focusing on meaning. Kelly is Associate Professor in the Department

of Psychology and in the Teacher Preparation Department at Christopher Newport University,

where she teaches courses in children’s thinking, learning, and reading. She is editor of Literacy Processes: Cognitive

Flexibility in Learning and Teaching.

Kelly Cartwright’s research-

tested interventions finally help

us meet word callers’ specific

needs and transform our ability

to reach them.—Nell K. Duke

Michigan State University

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When you see children transform from “just reading words” to understanding text and

enjoying reading, you’ll see how much hope there is for your Word Callers.

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