Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties

Busy classroom teachers get instant access to virtually every classroom assessment tool needed to screen or monitor students’ literacy progress in this reading diagnosis and intervention handbook organised around the sub-skills of reading.

In this widely popular handbook, beginning and experienced teachers alike find the assessment resources and tools they need to document a child’s strengths and areas of need–and get effective instructional strategies to teach skills that are missing. The book is organised around the sub-skills of reading and fits well with most major reading programs currently in use. The main sub-skills of reading–the emergent skills of phonemic awareness and letter recognition, the decoding skills of sight words, phonics, structural analysis, use of context clues, dictionary use, and the meaning related skills of vocabulary and comprehension–are addressed in the first nine chapters. Those chapters are followed by sections on fluency and specific oral reading difficulties and study skills and other reading related abilities. 

Each chapter is packed with ready-to-use lesson ideas and assessments and each presents a definition of the reading skill covered, followed by a section on assessing the skill, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English Language Learners. Using this resource, readers are able to define each of the sub-skills, know how to observe the development of the skill, do quick assessments of the skill where appropriate, and do in-depth assessments when needed. Access to classroom assessment tools needed to screen or monitor students’ literacy progress is included in each of the first nine chapters.