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Assessing and Addressing Literacy Needs
Cases and Instructional Strategies
- Barbara Combs - University of North Dakota, USA
July 2012 | 296 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Designed to help preservice and inservice teachers use assessments to identify problems and employ appropriate strategies to help their students become better readers, this text includes 12 case studies that detail children's literacy struggles. The cases are embedded within a framework of research-based instructional interventions related to best practices in literacy instruction. The core chapters of the book are organized around six essential elements in learning to read—emergent literacy, word identification, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and engagement—and include a review of the literature, assessment strategies, instructional interventions, a section on Intervening With Technology, and two detailed case reports.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Literacy Assessment and Instruction
Chapter 2: Focus on Emergent Literacy
Chatper 2: Focus on Word Identification
Chapter 3: Focus on Fluency
Chapter 4: Focus on Vocabulary
Chapter 5: Focus on Comprehension
Chapter 6: Focus on Engagement
Glossary
Index
About the Authors
I will be using this text the next time I teach READ 5443 Literacy Instruction and Assessment. It is written from the theoretical stance that aligns with the course and provides excellent examples for discussion. It will be especially useful in generating online discussions with my students at a distance. It will provide common experiences for us to discuss.
Reading Dept, Texas Woman'S University
April 22, 2015
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter One: Introduction to Literacy assessment and Instruction
Chapter Three: Focus on Word Identification
