Direct Instruction Reading, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (February 5, 2015) © 2017

  • Douglas W. Carnine University of Oregon
  • Jerry Silbert
  • Edward J. Kame'enui
  • Timothy A. Slocum
  • Patricia A. Travers
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Title overview

For courses in Reading in Special Education or Direct Instruction Reading (K-6)

Novice and expert teachers alike get the detailed guidance they need to be successful teaching any child who struggles with reading in the alphabetic writing system.

Unique in its approach of leaving little to chance or guesswork, Direct Instruction Reading details how to teach, what to teach, why it is important to teach it, when to teach it, how long, how often, at what starting point in time, and to what criterion level of performance. It is designed to give both novice teachers with limited or no teaching experience, as well as the expert teacher with extensive teaching experience the detailed guidance they need to be successful teaching any child who struggles with reading in the alphabetic writing system. This new edition features chapter Learning Outcomes; a new chapter on Response to Intervention (RtI); information relating the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to the Direct Instruction approach; web resources, video links, and other general research reference sources; explicit references and links to the most rigorous research available through the Institute of Education Sciences (IES); and updated research throughout.

Table of contents

  • Part I Perspective
  • Chapter 1 Perspectives on Reading Instruction
  • Chapter 2 A Model of Reading Instruction
  • Chapter 3 Classroom Reading Instruction
  • Chapter 4 Delivery of Instruction
  • Part II Beginning Reading
  • Chapter 5 An Overview of Beginning Reading
  • Chapter 6 Phonemic Awareness and Alphabetic Understanding
  • Chapter 7 Letter - Sound Correspondence
  • Chapter 8 Sounding Out Regular Words
  • Chapter 9 Sight Reading
  • Chapter 10 Irregular Words
  • Chapter 11 Vocabulary Instruction during the Beginning Reading Stage
  • Chapter 12 Comprehension Instruction during the Beginning Reading Stage
  • Part III Reading Instruction During The Primary And Intermediate Grades
  • Chapter 13 Phonic Analysis
  • Chapter 14 Structural Analysis
  • Chapter 15 Irregular Words: Primary and Intermediate Grades
  • Chapter 16 Fluency Instruction and Passage Reading
  • Chapter 17 Vocabulary Instruction after the Beginning Stage
  • Part IV Overview Of Comprehension Instruction
  • Chapter 18 Comprehension Skills and Procedures
  • Chapter 19 Narrative-Comprehension Strategies
  • Chapter 20 Critical Reading
  • Part V Content-Area Reading
  • Chapter 21 Direct Instruction in Content-Area Reading
  • Chapter 22 Response to Intervention: School-Wide Organization of Reading Instruction

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