Locating And Correcting Reading Difficulties

Updated and reorganized to be even more useful, this popular book's twenty-nine chapters divided into six major sections once again provide busy in-service reading teachers the essential tools they need--specific, concrete methods--for diagnosing reading difficulties and determining how to correct them. The authors' easy-to-read language effectively explains what to do in the diagnostic/remedial process; and twenty-four exceptionally thorough appendices offer hands-on tools for doing it. While individual instruction is clearly identified as the ideal, numerous strategies are also offered for both small- and large-group instruction. Emphasis is on direct instruction, motivational learning activities, and practice, practice, practice. It also features: *Reordered coverage--Addresses decoding (sight vocabulary, phonics, structural analysis, and context clues) before oral reading. *Set of tests for phonemic awareness--Includes tests for rhyming ability, initial sound recognition, phoneme blending, and phoneme segmentation. *A chapter on phonemic awareness--Matches specific instructional procedures to specific phonemic skills. *An appendix, Books for Emergent Readers.*Test for assessing older students and adults.

This reading diagnosis and intervention handbook contains the assessment resources and tools needed to document a child's strengths and areas of need and the instructional strategies to teach skills that are missing. Each chapter includes ready-to-use lesson ideas and assessments and each presents a definition of the reading skill covered, followed by a section on assessment, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English language learners.--

Offers a thoroughly revised, comprehensive A to Z compilation of authoritative information on the education of those with special needs.

Guide for pre- and inservice teachers on methods of diagnosing and correcting reading difficulties in students.

This text explores a number of different perspectives and theories on human learning and motivation. The author gives significant attention to different types of learning across the curriculum and examines effective types of teaching to facilitate different forms of learning. Detailed consideration is given to factors that contribute to common learning problems in school; and many practical suggestions are provided for preventing or overcoming some of these difficulties.