Instructing Students Who Have Literacy Problems

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"Instructing Students Who Have Literacy Problems "has long been valued because it covers both assessment and instructional strategies in a sound, research-based format. It reflects a balanced view of literacy instruction, comprehensively examining both word study and comprehension. It is the definitive research-based book on assessment and instruction of struggling readers. Four complete chapters on formal and informal assessment, plus chapters on instructional interventions, including reading instruction for special populations, allow professors the option of using the book for one inclusive course, or, using it across two courses in those universities where diagnosis and instruction are taught separately. Many case studies of students, as well as vignettes of teachers in action, illustrate real-world applications of the textbook content. There are practical strategies suggested in the text for both elementary and secondary students and for students from a variety of language backgrounds. This valuable book will successfully guide teachers so they can best help students who have reading difficulties - difficulties of all types and at all levels of severity. New to this EditionNEW! Chapter 1 includes a new, comprehensive section on the rapidly-growing Response to Intervention (RTI) initiative, along with special inserts signaled by an RTI icon specifically targeting students and teachers in RTI programs. NEW! A boxed feature, "Especially for ELLs," locatedin all 14 chapters, presenting information and ideas highly useful to educators concerned with the literacy needs of new English-language learners (ELLs) in relation to one or more of each chapter's major topics.NEW! Thorough expansion of the sections on reading fluency "assessment" (Chapter 5) and reading fluency "instruction" (Chapter 8), including the latest information on both informal and formal measures of fluency, charts featuring new research-based norms on reading rates for grades 1 through 8, the complete Multidimensional Fluency Scale, and new instructional techniques.NEW! Based on author Jerry Zutell's expertise as a well-known spelling researcher, the section on spelling development and spelling assessment has been completely updated and broadened, providing additional new and valuable information for teachers.NEW! An additional, in-depth section on using WORD SORTS, with detailed descriptions of a variety of ways teachers can employ this emerging, practical technique to improve student word knowledge in both reading and spelling.To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN: ISBN-10: 0131381520ISBN-13: 9780131381520To order this book WITHOUT MyEducationLab, use either ISBN: ISBN-10: 0137023588ISBN-13: 9780137023585