Balanced Reading Strategies and Practices: Assessing and Assisting Readers with Special Needs

Balanced Reading Strategies and Practices: Assessing and Assisting Readers with Special Needs, 1/e

D. Ray Reutzel, Southern Utah University
Robert B. Cooter, Dallas Public Schools

Published September, 1998 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

This text is appropriate for Reading/Diagnosis and Remediation or Reading/Literacy Assessment.
This practical handbook provides finger-tip information, readily available assessment tools, and detailed instructional strategies useful to current and future teacher to help them effectively meet the needs of every child in the area of reading—but especially those children with special needs. It guides teachers through the necessary steps to successfully implement the elements of a Balanced Literacy Program that will assist every child in becoming a life-long reader and writer.

Features

Some of the significant topics covered in the text are: gif/subullet.gif = portfolio assessment, taking running records, concepts about print, phonemic awareness and phonics, comprehending narratives, comprehending expository texts, vocabulary instruction, literature response, connecting reading and writing, fluency development, teaching limited English proficient students, study skills, and school to career connections.
Chapters are divided into three sections: gif/subullet.gif = 1) Background Briefing for Teachers, a short, information packed section that provides an update about each chapter's topic or focus. gif/subullet.gif = 2) Assessment Strategies, a series of selected assessment tools/procedures introduced to help teachers examine the focus or topic. gif/subullet.gif = 3) Balanced Reading Interventions, a series of selected instructional strategies recommended to give teachers a range of possibilities to teach students with special needs.
Information is provided that relates to the purpose, materials, audiences, and processes necessary to successfully use the instructional strategy or assessment tool recommended by the text.

Table of Contents

1. Balanced Reading Programs: A Context for Assessment Instruction.
2. Portfolio Assessment in a Balanced Reading Program: Part 1
3. Portfolio Assessment in a Balanced Reading Program: Part II/Running Records and Retellings.
4. Cooperative and Collaborative Learning: Assessing the Learning Opportunities.
5. Concepts About Print: Children's Insights into Reading and Writing.
6. The Alphabetic Principle and Phonemic Awareness.
7. Teaching and Assessing Phonics in a Balanced Reading Program.
8. Teaching and Assessing Vocabulary Development.
9. Assessing and Enhancing Reading Comprehension.
10. Assessing and Developing a Sense of Story.
11. Teaching Expository Text: Structures.
12. Connecting Reading and Writing.
13. Developing Reading Fluency.
14. Reader Stance and Literature Response.
15. Developing Research and Reference Skills.
16. Assessing and Assisting Special Needs Readers: English as a Second Language.
Name Index.
Subject Index.