Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems, First Edition

by Morris, Darrell

• ISBN13: 9781593856168
• ISBN10: 1593856164
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-27
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

In this highly informative text, Darrell Morris offers detailed, practical guidance based on decades of hands-on experience as a reading clinician and educator. He demonstrates how to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic assessment; interpret reading scores; and provide individualized instruction that takes each student's specific strengths and weaknesses into account. Case studies bring to life the book's one-to-one strategies for struggling beginning readers, older remedial readers (second- to sixth-grade reading levels), and those with severe reading disabilities. Small-group and whole-class applications are discussed, and a special chapter describes an exemplary teacher training approach. Helpful appendices feature ready-to-use assessment tools, book lists, and other reproducibles.

Author Biography

Darrell Morris, EdD, is Professor of Education and Director of the Reading Clinic at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, where he has been on the faculty since 1989. While at Appalachian State, he has directed the master’s program in reading, researched the beginning reading and spelling processes, and helped school districts throughout the country set up early reading intervention programs. Dr. Morris is the recipient (with several colleagues) of the International Reading Association’s 2005 Dina Feitelson Research Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The McGuffey Reading Center-University of Virginia	p. 1
The Education of a Reading Clinician	p. 3
Three Assumptions about the Reading Process	p. 5
Organization of This Book	p. 9
Diagnosing Reading Problems
Administering an Informal Reading Diagnosis	p. 13
Assessing Word Recognition in Isolation	p. 14
Assessing Contextual Reading (Oral and Silent)	p. 20
Assessing Spelling	p. 34
Adapting the Assessment for Beginning Readers	p. 37
Interpretation of Reading Scores	p. 49
The Case Summary Sheet	p. 49
Interpretation of Scores: Set 1 (Easy Cases)	p. 51
Interpretation of Scores: Set 2 (More Difficult Cases)	p. 56
Interpreting Scores from a First-Grade Reading Battery	p. 61
Beyond the Initial Reading Diagnosis	p. 66
The Parent Interview	p. 66
Diagnosis through Teaching	p. 70
Pre- and Posttesting with an Informal Diagnostic Battery	p. 72
Informal versus Standardized Tests	p. 75
Correcting Reading Problems
Preventing Reading Problems in the Early Grades	p. 83
Lesson Plans and Teaching Tools	p. 83
A Toolbox for Tutoring Beginning Readers	p. 85
Reading Materials	p. 85
Teaching Techniques	p. 86
Case Studies	p. 109
The Emergent Reader	p. 109
The Preprimer Reader	p. 113
The Primer Reader	p. 117
Classroom Applications	p. 123
Correcting Reading Problems in the Later Grades: I. Basic Teaching Strategies	p. 132
A Toolbox for Tutoring Struggling Readers	p. 132
Reading Materials	p. 132
Teaching Techniques	p. 133
Classroom Applications	p. 163
Correcting Reading Problems in the Later Grades: II. Case Studies	p. 176
Corrective Cases	p. 176
Walter (Word Recognition Problem-Early)	p. 177
Wendy (Word Recognition Problem-Late)	p. 183
Cory (Comprehension Problem-Early)	p. 190
Carol (Comprehension Problem-Late)	p. 193
Faye (Fluency Problem-Early)	p. 197
Frank (Fluency Problem-Late)	p. 201
Severe Cases of Reading Disability	p. 206
A Problem with Letters and Sounds	p. 207
A Problem with Word Retrieval	p. 209
A Problem with Patterning	p. 211
Training Reading Teachers
Clinical Training for Teachers of Reading	p. 217
The Goals of Clinical Training	p. 217
The Practicum: A Context for Training Teachers of Reading	p. 220
A Two-Course Clinical Sequence	p. 222
Diagnosis and Correction Course	p. 222
The Teaching Practicum	p. 224
The Practicum and the Teacher-in-Training	p. 227
The Practicum and the Reading Professor	p. 230
The Fate of Clinical Training for Teachers of Reading	p. 231
References	p. 237
Reading Materials Cited in Text	p. 243
Index	p. 245
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