In this widely popular reading diagnosis and intervention handbook, beginning and experienced teachers alike find the assessment resources and tools they need to document a child?s strengths and areas of need, and get effective instructional strategies to teach skills that are missing. The book is well suited for most major reading programs because it is organized around the sub-skills of readingphonemic awareness and letter recognition, decoding skills of sight words, structural analysis, use of context clues, and dictionary use.
Each chapter is packed with ready-to-use lesson ideas and assessments and each presents a definition of the reading skill covered, followed by a section on assessing the skill, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English Language Learners.
Teachers are able to use this resource.
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Define each of the sub-skills
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Know how to observe the development of the skill
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Do quick assessments of the skill where appropriate
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Do in-depth assessments when needed
TheAppendices give teachers access to material to help them teach the skills of reading. In the Appendices, the teacher can find lists of books that are appropriate for providing instruction to emergent readers, lists of basic sight words in sentences, and lists of vowels and strings.
This new edition has some outstanding features.
- Assessments pulled into the chapters covering the appropriate sub-skill
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Coverage of different levels of assessment ?observation, quick, and in-depth
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Three or more new teaching ideas in each major sub-skills reading chapter
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New checklists for keeping track of the sub-skill development of each student
–This text refers to the paperback edition.
The person is Ward A. Cockrum. He has been involved in literacy education for more than 30 years. His teaching experience includes his positions as a reading specialist in a K?4 school, a middle school reading/science teacher, a fifth-grade teacher and a Pre-first. – A teacher. A professor at Northern Arizona University, he directs the Reading Specialist Endorsement Program and teaches a variety of reading education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. James Shanker is the co-author of the fifth edition. Reading inventory is done by Ekwall/Shanker. .
–This text refers to the paperback edition.
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In this widely popular reading diagnosis and intervention handbook, beginning and experienced teachers alike find the assessment resources and tools they need to document a child?s strengths and areas of need, and get effective instructional strategies to teach skills that are missing. The book is well suited for most major reading programs because it is organized around the sub-skills of readingphonemic awareness and letter recognition, decoding skills of sight words, structural analysis, use of context clues, and dictionary use.
Each chapter is packed with ready-to-use lesson ideas and assessments and each presents a definition of the reading skill covered, followed by a section on assessing the skill, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English Language Learners.
Teachers are able to use this resource.
-
Define each of the sub-skills
-
Know how to observe the development of the skill
-
Do quick assessments of the skill where appropriate
-
Do in-depth assessments when needed
TheAppendices give teachers access to material to help them teach the skills of reading. In the Appendices, the teacher can find lists of books that are appropriate for providing instruction to emergent readers, lists of basic sight words in sentences, and lists of vowels and strings.
This new edition has some outstanding features.
- Assessments pulled into the chapters covering the appropriate sub-skill
-
Coverage of different levels of assessment ?observation, quick, and in-depth
-
Three or more new teaching ideas in each major sub-skills reading chapter
-
New checklists for keeping track of the sub-skill development of each student
–This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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