Built on a case-study approach to reading diagnosis, this classroom-based book features strong research, a theoretical foundation and a developmental, constructivist perspective of literacy. In this fourth edition, the authors offer an Instructional Approach that consistently helps the reflective practitioner connect diagnosis with instructional planning. It provides many more cases from actual students and classrooms than other diagnostic books, as well as a strong research and theoretical grounding for practice. The book introduces readers to early literacy screening, running records, informal reading inventories, miscue analysis and much more. For teachers and practitioners and students training to work in reading assessment.
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User-friendly for the classroom teacher:
Trained as a reading specialist in the 80s, I have always worked as a classroom teacher. This year I am at a school that has no reading speicialist. I panicked at first trying to interpret numbers from standardized tests. The scores did little except to confirm that there was in fact a reading problem. Then I found Reading Diagnosis for Teachers: An Instructional Approach. It is a user-friendly guide for informally diagnosing and treating reading difficulties. It gave me just the boost I needed to organize... more info
