Synopses & Reviews
What happens after a formative literacy assessment like DIBELS, TPRI, FAIR, or AIMSweb? How can educators translate the results into targeted interventions and improved reading outcomes? This reader-friendly teaching guide makes the next steps of literacy instruction clear and easy for Kâ€"6 educators. Developed by highly respected experts Smartt and Glaser, this book gives readers a specific breakdown of the indicators on today's most popular reading assessments and matches those items with interventions that make a real difference.
Next STEPS is everything educators want:
- designed for use with response to intervention—gives explicit instructions on designing Tier II and Tier III small-group instruction and monitoring student progress
- extensively field tested during the nationwide trainings the authors have conducted
- organized by the "big five" ideas identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
- packed with practice activities directly linked to each big idea
- shows teachers how to integrate all five big ideas during instruction, so lessons are well-rounded and comprehensive
- based on the latest, most reliable research and best practices
- shows educators both how to teach and what to teach to make students better readers
All of the suggested interventions are quick and creative, get real results with minimal planning, use materials most teachers already have, and effectively target the specific "trouble spots" that literacy assessments have identified. And with the classroom vignettes and sample teacher-student dialogues, educators will have adaptable models for their own classroom interactions.
A must for every education professional who wants to do more with the valuable information they get from literacy assessments, this guidebook takes the guesswork out of intervention and helps transform struggling students into skillful readers.
Review
"This book includes practical tools and activities that have a strong research base. Teachers will find valuable resources and activities to help them connect their assessment data with the most effective teaching strategies." Diane Haager, Ph.D.
Synopsis
Accessible, teacher friendly guide that provides teachers with a blueprint for instruction targeted toward improving students' reading skills based on results of formative assessments.
About the Author
Deborah M. Glaser, Ed.D., is a national education consultant, trainer, and author based in Boisie, Idaho.
Susan M. Smartt, Ph.D., is Senior Research Associate, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, Vanderbilt University. She also teaches reading courses and provides consulting and professional development services to states and local school districts.
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
- Introduction to Next STEPS
II. Steps to Reading Success- Teaching Struggling Readers to Read
- Phoneme Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Comprehension
- Vocabulary
III. Weaving It All Together
- Weaving Elements Together for a Lifetime of Reading