Overview

For undergraduate/graduate courses in Reading Methods, and Reading/Literacy Tutoring. This text provides a solid pool of ideas gathered to offer a wide range of strategies that effectively assist struggling readers and writers. Unique to this text is the way it begins with assessment tools encouraging teachers to identify how and why students are struggling with literacy tasks and then offers a variety of effective intervention strategies to help teachers help students in word identification, comprehension, and fluency, and motivation. Each strategy is formatted consistently with step-by-step directions that detail how it should be implemented.

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Author:   Maria J. Meyerson ,  Dorothy L. Kulesza
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9780131181779

ISBN 10:   0131181777
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   23 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface About the Authors Part I       The Importance of Assessment                 Observing Students in Action                 Making Instructional Decisions Part II     When Struggling Readers and Writers Need to Improve Interest, Attitude, and Motivation                 The Goldilocks Plan                 Talk, Talk, Talk                 Book Stacking                 Literacy and Computers                 Other Media                 Assessing Interest, Attitude, and Motivation Part III    When Struggling Readers and Writers Need to Improve Word Recognition                 Language Experience Approach                 Reading the Environment                 Decoding by Analogy                 Sight Word Development - Semantic Organizers                 Sight Word Development - Cloze Activities                 Vocabulary Development - Multiple-Meaning                 Working with Middle School Student to Improve Word Recognition: Word Forms                 Assessing Word Recognition                 Part IV    When Struggling Readers and Writers Need to Improve Fluency                 Repeated Reading                 Readers' Theater                 Choral Reading                 Listening to Text                 Working with Middle School Students to Improve Fluency: Connecting Reading to Note-Taking Part V     When Struggling Readers and Writers Need to Improve Comprehension                 Retelling                 Breaking Down the Text                 Understanding Text Structure                 Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction                 Reading Pictures                 Prediction Webs and Charts                 Where's the Question                 Working with Middle School Students to Improve Comprehension: Concept Maps                 Assessing Comprehension Appendix  Additional Forms May Be Reproduced for Classroom Use                 Form 1A Observation Form                 Form 1B The Literacy Interview                 Form 2A-D The Golilocks Plan                 Form 3 Biography Interview Questionnaire                 Form 4 Repeated Reading Graph                 Form 5 Listening Center Activities                 Form 6 Prediction Web Template                 Form 7 Story Retelling Assessment

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"Maria J. Meyerson, Ph.D., is a professor of literacy education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).  With more than 25 years in education, Meyerson is a former remedial reading teacher for the Buffalo Public Schools and the Clark County School District.  She served as the director of the Literacy Development Center at UNLV for 10 years, working with children, preservice teachers, and master and doctoral students.  She continues to work with the Paradise Professional Development School as well as other schools in the Las Vegas area. Dorothy L. Kulesza, Ed.D., is called ""Dottie"" by all who know her.  She completed her doctorate in 2001.  Dottie was a classroom teacher and literacy specialist at the Paradise Professional Development School.  After two years as a visiting professor at UNLV, she was a Humanities teachers with the Clark County School District as well as a part-time literacy instructor.  Dottie recently accepted a position as Assistant Principal at Goolsby Elementary School and Christensen Elementary School in Las Vegas, Nevada."

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