Remediating Reading Difficulties

by CRAWLEY

• ISBN13: 9780697377289
• ISBN10: 0697377288
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-19
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Remediating Reading Difficulties provides practical, easy-to-implement activities and strategies designed to correct diagnosed reading difficulties. Most chapters describe a specific reading problem or skill, explain possible causes of the problem, and provide an extensive and wide-ranging variety of ideas and instructional strategies to remediate and prevent the reading problem. Remediating Reading Difficulties is also an excellent handbook of ideas for teachers in the regular classroom who wish to teach and reinforce specific reading skills and for teachers working with students who speak other languages (ESOL/LEP students). Brief, clear, student-friendly, and comprehensive, Remediating Reading Difficulties is a simple, easy-to-use quick-reference tool that both pre- and in-service teachers will want to keep ready at arm's length to motivate, communicate with, assess, and promote good reading practices in all readers.

Table of Contents

PART I: INITIAL READING

Chapter 1: Improving Letter Recognition

PART II: WORD ATTACK

Chapter 2: Improving Sight-Word Knowledge

Chapter 3: Improving Decoding Skills: Phonics

Chapter 4: Improving Decoding: Structural Analysis

Chapter 5: Improving Decoding: Using Context

PART III: COMPREHENSION

Chapter 6: Improving Vocabulary

Chapter 7: Improving Comprehension

Chapter 8: Improving Metacognition

PART IV: ORAL READING

Chapter 9: Improving Fluency

Chapter 10: Decreasing Reversals

Chapter 11: Decreasing Omissions

Chapter 12: Decreasing Substitutions

Chapter 13: Decreasing Nonpronunciations

Chapter 14: Decreasing Repetitions

Chapter 15: Decreasing Insertions

Chapter 16: Decreasing Faulty Habits

PART V: STUDY SKILLS

Chapter 17: Adjusting Reading Rate

Chapter 18: Skimming and Scanning

Chapter 19: Memory Aids

Chapter 20: Listening

PART VI: AFFECTIVE AREAS

Chapter 21: Teaching Speakers of Other Languages

Chapter 22: Improving Self-Concept

Chapter 23: Developing Interests in Reading

Chapter 24: Suggestions for Parents

Appendix A: Sight-Word Lists

Appendix B: Developing a Skills Kit

Appendix C: Major Word-Attack Generalizations

Appendix D: Word Lists for Word-Attack Elements

Appendix E: Common Phonograms

Appendix F: Language-Experience Approach

Appendix G: Neurological Impress Method

Appendix H: Kinesthetic Method

Appendix I: Guidelines for Asking Questions

Appendix J. Websites

Appendix K: Trade Books for Challenged Readers

Appendix L: Caldecott and Newbury Award-Winning Books

Appendix M: Commercial Books, Kits, and Workbooks for Instruction

Appendix N: Multimedia, Including Games, Software, Electronics, and Writing Activities

Appendix O: Publishing Companies

Index