Assessing and Addressing Literacy Needs: Cases and Instructional Strategies

by Barbara E. Combs

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412975292
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/07/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Literacy Assessment and Instruction
Chapter 2: Focus on Emergent Literacy
Chatper 2: Focus on Word Identification
Chapter 3: Focus on Fluency
Chapter 4: Focus on Vocabulary
Chapter 5: Focus on Comprehension
Chapter 6: Focus on Engagement
Glossary
Index
About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

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Leslie Marlow

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