Case Studies in Preparation for the California Reading Competency Test - Softcover

Rossi, Joanne C.; Schipper, Beth E.

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9780205360154: Case Studies in Preparation for the California Reading Competency Test

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ISBN 10: 0205360157 ISBN 13: 9780205360154

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

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This concise, case-based text helps pre-service and practicing teachers prepare for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA).

Drs. Rossi and Schipper cover all domains, concepts, strategies and assessments required by RICA. The cases cover a wide variety of student profiles and grade levels reflecting California's school population, and include a variety of scenarios for whole classes, groups, and individual students.

However the usefulness of this text goes beyond RICA preparation. It's a terrific companion to any literacy methods text for teacher preparation courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. The real-life scenarios reflect the literacy learning situations teachers encounter in actual classrooms and help teachers place their knowledge of reading methods and strategies into realistic contexts. All cases reflect research-based concepts and strategies covered in all major reading methods and diagnosis texts used in colleges and universities throughout the state of California.

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This concise, case-based text helps pre-service and practicing teachers prepare for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA). A terrific companion to any literacy methods text for teacher preparation courses, the book includes cases from a wide variety of grade levels and student profiles, and provides scenarios for teaching whole classes, groups, and individual students. Drs. Rossi and Schipper cover all domains, concepts, strategies, and assessments required by RICA, and each case reflects research-based concepts and strategies covered in major reading methods and diagnosis texts.

New features to this edition include entertaining, informative case studies enhanced with reader feedback as well as model narratives rewritten to reflect RICA’s new style of questions and answers. The authors provide specific answers to case study questions that cover the strengths, needs, and strategies for each one, and an updated bibliography, organized by topic, allows students to seek additional information on problem areas.

About the Author:

Joanne C. Rossi andBeth E. Schipper

Between them, the authors have over 60 years of experience in the field of reading and language arts as classroom teachers, reading specialists, curriculum consultants, clinicians, administrators, college professors and administrators, and supervisors of student teachers. In the past 20 years, a major focus of the authors’ work has been in the research and instruction of language arts assessment in elementary and high school districts. They are also the authors of the book Portfolios in the Classrooms: Tools for Learning and Instruction. Joanne Rossi is at Notre Dame DeNamur University and Beth E. Schipper is at California State University, Fullerton.

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