When Kids Can't Read, What Teachers Can Do ─ A Guide for Teachers, 6-12

For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.

KYLENE BEERS, Ed.D., is a Senior Reading Reseacher in the Child Study Center at Yale University. A former middle school teacher, Kylene has turned her commitment to helping struggling readers into the major focus of her research, writing, speaking, and teaching. She is the current editor of Voices from the Middle, the journal of the National Council of Teachers of English