Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties (9e)

Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties is a reading diagnostic and intervention handbook.  Organized around the subskills of reading, the book allows experienced teachers to find assessment resources to document a child's strengths and areas of need and find effective instructional strategies to teach missing skills. 

New to this edition is a chapter on developing reading fluency.  In addition, each chapter has been reorganized.  This reorganization first presents a definition of the reading skill covered followed by three sections: a section on assessing the skill, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English Language Learners.  The balance of the text are Assessment Appendices which house every classroom assessment tool that a busy classroom teacher needs to screen or monitor  students' literacy progress.  Each assessment resource is briefly identified by purpose and offers both the assessment tool for the student and a data collection tool for teachers.  

Preparation and Use of Materials for How to Use This Book

Reading Diagnosis Chart

Making Your Own Diagnosis Kit from the Appendices

Introduction:    Important Principles and a Useful Method for Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties

1.    Developing Phonemic Awareness

2.    Developing Alphabet Knowledge

3.    Developing Sight Vocabulary

4.    Developing Phonics Knowledge: Consonants

5.    Developing Phonics Knowledge: Vowels

6.    Developing Phonics Knowledge: Blends, Digraphs, or Diphthongs

7.    Developing Structural Analysis

8.    Developing Knowledge of Contractions

9.    Developing Ability to Use Context Clues

10.    Developing Reading Fluency

11.    Improving Poor Pronunciation

12.    Decreasing Omissions

13.    Decreasing Repetitions

14.    Decreasing Inversions or Reversals

15.    Decreasing Insertions

16.    Decreasing Substitutions

17.    Decreasing Guessing at Words

18.    Decreasing Word-by-Word Reading

19.    Limiting Incorrect Phrasing

20.    Decreasing Voicing, Lip Movements, Finger Pointing, and Head Movements

21.    Developing Vocabulary Knowledge

22.    Improving Comprehension

PART FIVE:    STUDY SKILLS AND OTHER ABILITIES

23.    Developing Reading Speed

24.    Developing the Ability to Adjust Reading Rate

25.    Reading at an Appropriate Rate for Comprehending

26.    Developing Skimming and Scanning Ability

27.    Developing Ability to Locate Information

28.    Developing Dictionary Skills

29.    Developing Spelling Skills

A-1    Code for Marking in Oral Diagnosis

A-2    Preparation and Use of Materials for Testing Phonemic Awareness

A-3    Preparation and Use of Materials for Testing Letter Knowledge

A-4    Preparation and Use of Materials for the Quick Check for Basic Sight Words

A-5    Preparation and Use of Materials for Testing Basic Sight Words and Phrases

A-6    Preparation and Use of Materials for the Graded Word Lists Sight Vocabulary Assessment

A-7    Preparation and Use of Materials for the Phonics Assessment

A-8    Preparation and Use of Materials for the Structural Analysis Assessment

A-9    Preparation and Use of Materials for Testing Knowledge of Contractions

A-10  Preparation and Use of Materials for the Quick Survey Word List

A-11  Preparation and Use of Materials for Testing Ability to Use Context

A-12  Preparation and Use of Materials for Testing Ability to Use Context Clues: Multiple Meanings Word Assessment

A-13  Preparation and Use of Materials for Determining Reading Rate

A-14  Preparation and Use of Materials for Estimating a Reading Comprehension Level

A-15  Preparation and Use of Materials for the Reading Interest Surveys

B-1    Books for Emergent Readers

B-2    Basic Sight Word Sentences

B-3    A Phonics Primer

B-4    Phonogram Lists

B-5    Words for Teaching Short and Long Vowels

B-6    Words, Sentences, and Stories for Teaching Structural Analysis

B-7    Prepositional Phrases

B-8    Prefixes and Suffixes

B-9    Using the Cloze Procedure

B-10  Repeated Readings Chart

B-11  Precision Reading Form and Charts

B-12  Charts for Graphing Words per Minute and Comprehension

B-13  Suggestions for Interviewing Parents of Disabled Readers

Glossary

Index

• New to this edition is a chapter on developing reading fluency
• A reorganization of each chapter-This chapter reorganization offers users a definition of the reading skill covered followed by three sections: a section on assessing the skill, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English Language Learners. 
• More carefully developed appendices to offer tools that are immediately usable for busy classroom teachers.

• Reading Diagnosis Chart –Matched to the development of reading ability–parallels chapter order.

  • Creates a guideline by which teachers can easily identify specific reading difficulties and quickly locate strategies that address them.

• Standard chapter format for each reading difficulty–Provides definition, discussion of assessment, recommendations in alphabetical order, and games and exercises to engage learners in practice.

  • Facilitates comparisons and highlights differences and similarities in various reading challenges.

• Eleven chapters on oral reading difficulties–Poor pronunciation skills, omissions, repetitions, and others.

  • Provides a rich repository of strategies for assisting students with inadequate “reading aloud” skills–source of some of the most common reading difficulties.

• Fifteen appendices addressing locating reading difficulties and thirteen addressing correcting reading difficulties–Include more than thirty different diagnostic tests or instruments, with directions and tips for administering each. The text is perforated to allow teachers to create their own assessment  handbook by reprinting assessment tools when needed or placing them all in a loose-leaf notebook.
•            Creates an exceptionally complete blueprint for “finding and fixing” literally dozens of reading problems experienced by readers of all ages.