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Understanding, Assessing, and Teaching Reading: A Diagnostic Approach, 8th edition

  • James Erekson, 
  • Michael F Opitz, 
  • Roland Schendel

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Overview

Understanding, Assessing and Teaching Reading offers a combination of theory, practical applications and basic skills that emphasizes how to make reading assessment and instruction decisions. This comprehensive, practical text helps teachers gather assessment data in order to make teaching decisions. In addition to fostering understanding of the reading assessment process, this text presents a wide variety of reading skills, strategies and teaching techniques that are appropriate follow-ups to assessments.

The 8th edition offers a dedicated chapter on assessing and teaching writing, bridge features that emphasize how teachers connect understanding-assessment-instruction and updated children's literature recommendations.

Published by Pearson (September 18th 2020) - Copyright © 2020

ISBN-13: 9780136630340

Subject: Reading & Literacy

Category: Reading Assessment / Diagnosis / Remediation

Overview

1. Understanding a Diagnostic Approach to Assessing and Teaching Reading
2. Factors That Affect Reading Performance
3. Classroom Assessments
4. Oral Reading Assessments
5. Commercial Tests
6. Becoming the Teacher with a Diagnostic Mindset
7. Teaching with Texts
8. Early Literacy
9. Comprehension
10. Vocabulary
11. Phonics
12. Fluency
13. Teaching Writing
14. Partnering with Families, Teachers, and Community

Appendix A: Informal Reading Inventory Administration and Scoring Procedures
Appendix B: Examiner Booklet
Appendix C: Informal Reading Inventory Student Booklet

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