Myrtle Welch is a veteran public school teacher who spent many years teaching adolescents to read and write. She also taught reading in a computer reading lab for ten years. Her research interest is students who struggle to read and achieve at school. She has presented her research at various conferences including the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England, 2006 and to Ambassadors of the 2007 World Forum in Washington D.C. Her publications, Reading Pedagogy: The Foundation and Cornerstone for the Expansion of Literacy (2007) and Reading as a Struggle: Challenged Readers Making Meaning from Texts (2009), cast a framework for teaching students who are challenged by texts. Currently, she teaches in the School of Education at Buffalo State College.
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