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Advanced Literacy Practices: From the Clinic to the Classroom
Author(s): Evan Ortlieb (Author, Editor), Earl H. Cheek (Editor), Jr. (Editor)
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: January 28, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 1781905037
- ISBN-13: 9781781905036
Book Description
Advanced Literacy Practices: From the Clinic to the Classroom includes salient information about clinical literacy practices that transfer to other settings. From historical perspectives to cutting edge instructional techniques, this edited text includes elements of designing literacy clinics, models of reading and writing practices, technology-based instruction, and frameworks for meeting the diverse needs of students. As the second volume in the series, Literacy Research, Practice, and Evaluation, notable authors share their perspectives as effective literacy clinic directors of how to enhance the literacy achievement of students. These first-hand accounts are critical as readers glean from their career-long devotion and decades of research, practice, and experimentation. Readers garner rich perspectives on literacy improvement through this research-based practical guide. It provides a current examination of issues and trends in clinical literacy practices appropriate for novice and experienced educators and researchers alike.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Ortlieb (Monash U., Australia) and Cheek (Louisiana State U.) provide new and experienced educators and researchers with 19 chapters contributed by authors from the US, who describe the benefits and services provided by literacy clinics for youth experiencing difficulties in reading and writing. They detail the foundational, reading and writing, technological, and complementary elements of these clinics, highlighting techniques that can be applied in multiple settings, such as the clinic, classroom, or at home. They include information on assessment practices, elementary and secondary students, urban and multilingual students, and those with learning disabilities. They discuss the evolution of literacy clinics, creating a university-based literacy center, designing an off-campus clinic, creating a learning environment for struggling readers, vocabulary/comprehension-based models, fluency, building writing communities, preparing special educators to teach reading, preparing preservice teachers to differentiate instruction, using podcasts and reflective video pedagogy, mentoring, peer conferencing, collaboration within school-based clinics, and other topics. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. –Book News Inc. Portland, OR
About the Author
Evan Ortlieb – St. John’s University, NYC, USA
Earl H. Cheek, Jr. – Louisiana State University, USA
Earl H. Cheek, Jr. – Louisiana State University, USA
