Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties (Revised)

by Cockrum, Ward; Shanker, James L.

• ISBN13: 9780132929103
• ISBN10: 0132929104
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-11
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

In this widely popular reading diagnosis and intervention handbook, beginning and experienced teachers alike find the assessment resources and tools they need to document a child's strengths and areas of needand get effective instructional strategies to teach skills that are missing. Locating and Correcting Reading Difficultiesis organized around the sub-skills of reading and fits well with most major reading programs currently in use.

Author Biography

Ward A. Cockrum has been involved in literacy education for more than 30 years. His teaching experience includes his positions as a reading specialist in a K–4 school, a middle school reading/science teacher, a fifth-grade teacher and a Pre-first^-grade teacher. Currently a professor at Northern Arizona University, he directs the Reading Specialist Endorsement Program and teaches a variety of reading education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Cockrum is the co-author, with James Shanker, of the fifth edition of the Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book 

Introduction

                        Introduction

Part One: Emergent Literacy Skills

  1.      Developing Phonemic Awareness         

  2.      Developing Alphabet Knowledge           

Part Two: Decoding Skills        

  3.      Developing Sight Vocabulary    

  4.      Developing Phonics Knowledge

  5.      Developing Structural Analysis 

  6.      Developing Ability to Use Context Clues

  7.     Developing Dictionary Skills      

 

Part Three: Comprehension Skills

  8.      Developing Vocabulary Knowledge       

  9.      Improving Comprehension

 

Part Four: Fluency And Specific Oral Reading Difficulties      

10.      Developing Reading Fluency    

11.      Improving Poor Pronunciation   

12.      Decreasing Omissions 

13.      Decreasing Repetitions

14.      Decreasing Inversions or Reversals     

15.      Decreasing Insertions  

16.      Decreasing Substitutions         

17.      Decreasing Guessing at Words

18.      Decreasing Word-by-Word Reading     

19.      Limiting Incorrect Phrasing      

20.      Decreasing Voicing, Lip Movements, Finger Pointing, and Head Movements     

 

Part Five: Study Skills And Other Abilities 

21.      Developing Reading Speed

22.      Developing the Ability to Adjust Reading Rate   

23.      Reading at an Appropriate Rate for Comprehending      

24.      Developing Skimming and Scanning Ability

25.      Developing the Ability to Locate Information

26.      Developing Spelling Skill

 

Appendices for Locating And Correcting Reading Difficulties

A-1     Code for Marking in Oral Diagnosis

A-2      Books for Emergent Readers

A-3      Basic Sight Word Sentences

A-4      A Phonics Primer

A-5      Phonogram Lists

A-6      Words for Teaching Short and Long Vowels

A-7      Words, Sentences, and Stories for Teaching Structural Analysis

A-8      Prepositional Phrases

A-9      Prefixes and Suffixes

A-10     Using the Cloze Procedure

A-11     Repeated Readings Chart        

A-12     Precision Reading Form and Charts

A-13     Charts for Graphing Words per Minute and Comprehension       

A-14     Suggestions for Interviewing Parents of Low Achieving Readers

A-15     The Language Experience Approach

 

Glossary         

Index