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Pre- and in-service teachers turn to this book for a comprehensive, well-grounded look at theory and research, balanced with a practical approach to reading assessment, diagnosis, and remediation that includes 46 sample lessons covering virtually every major skill or strategy. The lessons are described in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manner, and the emphasis is on strategies that teachers can use independently for developing skills in word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, reading in the content areas, writing, spelling, and studying. This new Fifth Edition of Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties includes coverage of the critical areas of Response to Intervention and the impact of the Common Core State Standards.
0133388174 / 9780133388176 Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties Plus NEW MyEducationLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card
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Review
"Gunning’s Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties provides instructors and students with a comprehensive tool for understanding the intricacies of corrective instruction. The models of assessment provide a winning framework for the interrelationships of assessment and instruction." -
Anita Gail Choice, Stetson University
"Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties is a comprehensive text that equips teachers with the knowledge and resources to understand assessing and correcting reading and writing difficulties. The text offers solid research to support the methods and techniques to help children. Enhanced with technology and video resources. A must read!" - Dr. Wendy A Ellis, Harding University
"The manuscript text is comprehensive. It contains essential information for preservice teachers to possess in order to support the reading and writing of students with mild disabilities. It is written in a manner that provides definition and examples with research to support. Students may use the text as a resource of information after graduation." - Mary C. Provost, College of Charleston
Synopsis
Grounded in theory and research, yet highly practical in nature, this book illustrates through a wealth of examples how to assess students and how to use assessment results to screen students monitor progress, and provide effective instruction.
Here are 46 easy-to-follow, step-by-step sample lessons covering virtually every major skill or strategy needed to successfully assess and instruct struggling readers of all ages. The emphasis is on strategies that can be used independently for developing skills in word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, reading in the content areas, writing, spelling, and studying.
The new Fifth Edition has been updated and expanded to include:
- Extensive coverage of Response to Intervention;
- Details on the impact of the Common Core Standards, especially in developing the ability to read complex text;
- Techniques to help struggling readers take responsibility for their learning through fostering executive functioning;
- Introduction of an excellent instrument that doubles both as an assessment of comprehension and a highly motivational comprehension building technique—Mystery Passages Think Aloud;
- Ideas for using indexing effectively with struggling non-comprehenders;
- New ways to assess vocabulary and two programs for developing academic vocabulary; and
- Expanded coverage of paraphrasing, summarizing, comprehending sentences, using text structures, imaging and using manipulatives, and new coverage of techniques such as close reading.
Also from Thomas G. Gunning:
0132685817 - Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children in Grades Pre-K to 4, 2/e - c2013 |
0133018075 - Building Literacy in Secondary Content Area Classrooms Plus MyEducationLab with Pearson eText, 1/e - c2012 |
0132317443 - Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students in Grades 4 to 8, 3/e - c2012 |
0132900955 - Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students Plus MyEducationLab with Pearson eText, 8/e - c2013 |
0205522203 - Developing Higher-Level Literacy in All Students, 1/e - c2008 |
020545626X - Closing the Literacy Gap, 1/e - c2006 |
0205309224 - Building Words, 1/e - c2001 |
0205323235 - Phonological Awareness and Primary Phonics, 1/e - c2000 |
0205286259 - Best Books for Building Literacy for Elementary School Children, 1/e - c2000 |
About the Author
Thomas G. Gunning, a former elementary school reading consultant, junior high English teacher, and secondary school reading specialist, is Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University, where he was department chair and reading clinic director. Gunning is currently an Adjunct Professor, Reading/ Language Arts Department, Central Connecticut State University. He has conducted research on group reading inventories, vocabulary assessment, reading disabilities, intervention programs, readability, response to intervention, decoding processes and strategies, and literacy skills needed to cope with high-stakes tests. Gunning’s other books with Pearson include Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students, 8/e Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students In Grades Pre-k to 4, 2/e; Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students In Grades 4-8, 3/e; Building Literacy in Secondary Content Area Classrooms; Developing Higher-Level Literacy in All Students: Building Reading, Reasoning, and Responding; Closing the Literacy Gap; Phonological Awareness and Primary Phonics; and Building Words: A Resource Manual for Teaching word Analysis and Spelling Strategies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Literacy Difficulties
- Factors Involved in Reading and Writing Difficulties
- Overview of Assessment
- Placing Students and Monitoring Progress
- Assessment of Reading and Writing Processes
- Assessment of Cognitive, School, and Home Factors
- Emergent Literacy and Prevention Programs
- Teaching Phonics, High-Frequency Words, and Fluency
- Syllabic, Morphemic, and Contextual Analysis and Dictionary Strategies
- Building Vocabulary
- Building Comprehension
- Reading to Learn and Remember in the Content Areas
- Building Writing Strategies
- Tier II and III Programs
- Organization of Intervention and Corrective Programs
- Appendix A: Informal Assessment Measures