ISBN10: 0131913603
ISBN13: 9780131913608
Edition/Copyright: 05

Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Cover: Paperback
Year Published: 2005
Weight: 0.9lbs.

Techniques for Reading Assessment and Instruction

by Barbara J. Walker


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For courses in Reading Assessment, Diagnosis, and Remediation.

This brief, practical text-a concise, concentrated version of the author's popular Diagnostic Teaching of Reading-offers prospective teachers all of the essential tools for determining and addressing the needs of K-12 students who find reading a difficult and challenging endeavor. Grounded in the author's belief that there is strength in differences, this text offers myriad ways to address the diversity in learning styles exhibited by today's multifaceted student population. The first half of the text explores the role of the reading teacher and ways to gather and analyze assessment date; the second half sets out detailed descriptions and step-by-step procedures for 55 instructional techniques proven to turn struggling readers into successful ones.

Part One

1. Teachers as Problem Solvers

Active Reading
Problem Readers
Instructional Process
Summary

2. The Roles of Effective Teachers

Reflecting
Planning
Mediating
Enabling
Responding
Summary

3. A Framework for Teaching Reading

Premises
Familiar Text Time
Guided Contextual Reading (GCR)
Strategy and Skill Instruction (SAS)
Personalized Reading and Writing (PRW)
Summary

4. Gathering Assessment Data

Identifying the Major Presenting Problem
Establishing the Level of Student Performance
Further Assessments
Stages of Reading Development
Summary

5. Selecting Instructional Techniques

Classifying Techniques for Guided Contextual Reading
Classifying Techniques for Strategy and Skill Instruction
Classifying Techniques for Increased Specificity
Summary

Part Two

Techniques
Alternate Writing
Analytic (Implicit Phonics)
Chunking
Cloze Instruction
Collaborative Reading
Contextual Processing
Directed Reading Activity
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
Echo Reading
Experience-Text-Relationship
Feature Analysis Grid
Framed Rhyming Innovations
Generative-Reciprocal Inference Procedure
Graphic Organizers
Guided Reading
Herringbone Technique
Imagery Instruction
Impress Method
Journal Writing
K-W-L
Language Experience Approach
Literature Circles
Making Words
Making and Writing Words
Opinion-proof Approach
Paired Reading
Phonogram Approach
Prediction Logs
Question-Answer Relationships
Question-Generation Strategy
Readers Theater
Reciprocal Teaching
Repeated Readings
ReQuest
Retelling
Retrospective Miscue Analysis
Say Something
Shared Reading Approach
Sight Word Approach
Sound Boxes
Story Drama
Story Mapping
Story Writing Approach
Summarization
Summary Experience Approach
Synthetic (Explicit) Phonics
Talking Books
Thematic Experience Approach
Think-Aloud Approach
Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
Webbing
Word Analogy Strategy
Word Probe Strategy
Word Sorts
Word Walls
Bibliography