Assessing and Addressing Literacy Needs: Cases and Instructional Strategies
Author(s): Barbara Combs (Author)
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Publication Date: 19 May 2011
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 296 pages
ISBN-10: 1412975298
ISBN-13: 9781412975292
Book Description
Designed to help preservice and inservice teachers use assessments to identify problems and employ appropriate strategies to help their students become better readers, this text includes 12 case studies that detail children′s literacy struggles. The cases are embedded within a framework of research-based instructional interventions related to best practices in literacy instruction. The core chapters of the book are organized around six essential elements in learning to read―emergent literacy, word identification, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and engagement―and include a review of the literature, assessment strategies, instructional interventions, a section on Intervening With Technology, and two detailed case reports.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“I would VERY LIKELY adopt this book…for the readability, comfort level, and wide-scope.” — Deborah Ferrar
“Yes, I would like to adopt this book for a course, especially for the lab text for my reading methods course. I feel it provides important problem solving work that undergraduate students rarely get to be involved in an organized manner.” — Michael Martin
“It is very likely I would adopt this text because it provides the opportunity to analyze data and plan for intervention.” — Leslie Marlow
From the Back Cover
Designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers understand the problems that children encounter when learning to read and to provide key instructional strategies related to best practices in literacy instruction.
About the Author
Barbara Combs is Professor of Teaching & Learning and Associate Dean for Teacher Education in the College of Education and Human Development at University of North Dakota. She publishes regularly in leading Education journals (primarily in the area of literacy) and is author or editor of four books published by the Foxfire Fund, an educational and literary organization that advocates a learner-centered, community-based educational approach.
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