Assessing and Addressing Literacy Needs: Cases and Instructional Strategies - Softcover

Combs, Barbara E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412975298 ISBN 13: 9781412975292

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412975298
• ISBN 13: 9781412975292
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296