| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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Essentials of psychological assessment series |
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Essentials of psychological assessment series.
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| Contents |
Chapter One: Introduction. The Unfair Race -- The Importance of Reading -- The Gap Between Reading Research and Classroom Practice -- The Unfortunate Reality About Reading Research: Nobody Knows About It! -- Why Is There a Gap Between Research and Classroom Practice? -- The Powerful Research Results We Have Been Missing -- Acknowledging and Responding to the Gap Between Research and Practice -- Chapter Two: How We Teach Reading and Why It Does Not Work With Struggling Readers. A Very Brief History of Reading Instruction -- Why Our Current Approaches to Reading Instruction Are Ineffective With Struggling Readers -- The Visual Memory Hypothesis of Word Reading -- The Three Cueing Systems Model of Reading -- The Phonics Approach to Reading -- Chapter Three: A Practical Framework for Understanding and Assessing Reading Skills. The Simple View of Reading -- Types of Reading Difficulties/Disabilities -- The Components of Reading -- The Components of Word-Level Reading -- The Components of Linguistic Comprehension -- Chapter Four: Understanding Word Recognition Difficulties. The Importance of This Chapter -- Introducing Orthographic Mapping -- How Skilled Word Reading Develops -- The Early Stages of the Reading Process -- Learning to Read Irregular Words -- The Research on Orthographic Mapping -- How the Phonological-Core Deficit Hinders Reading Development -- Word-Reading Fluency and Orthographic Mapping -- Students Whose Native Language Is Not English -- Answers to the Questions Posed About Reading Difficulties -- Chapter Five: Understanding Reading Comprehension Difficulties -- Specific Reading Comprehension Impairment -- What Is Required for Skilled Reading Comprehension? -- Reader Abilities -- Text Factors -- Task Factors -- Students Whose First Language Is Not English -- Chapter Six: Assessing Phonological Processing Skills. An Introduction to Intervention-Oriented Assessment of Reading -- Issues in Assessing Phonological Skills -- Phonological Awareness Assessment -- Phonological Blending Assessment -- The Rationale for Assessing Rapid Automatized Naming and Working Memory -- Chapter Seven: Assessing Phonics Skills. Orthographic Knowledge -- Assessing Phonics Skills -- Chapter Eight: Assessing Word Identification and Reading Fluency. The Assessment of Word-Reading Skills -- Untangling the Confound Between Word Recognition and Word Identification -- Word Identification Subtests -- The Assessment of Word-Reading Fluency -- Types of Fluency Tasks -- Chapter Nine: Assessing Reading Comprehension and Related Skills. Reading Comprehension Assessment -- Tests of Reading Comprehension -- Tests of Listening Comprehension -- Assessment of Skills That Contribute to Reading Comprehension and Listening Comprehension -- Chapter Ten: Effective Approaches for Preventing Reading Difficulties. Prevention: Removing the Hurdles Before the Race Begins -- Experimental Support for Phonological Awareness Instruction -- Experimental Support for Explicit and Systematic Letter-Sound Instruction -- Practical Considerations Regarding Teaching Letter-Sound Skills and Phonics -- The Centrality of Phonology in Word Reading -- Phonological Awareness Training Programs -- Preventing Literacy-Related Language Difficulties -- Chapter Eleven: Effective Approaches for Overcoming or Minimizing Reading Difficulties. Intervention with Word-Level Reading Difficulties -- Popular Reading Interventions With Modest or Minimal Results -- Reading Intervention Research With Minimal to Modest Results -- The Phonological Awareness Intervention Continuum -- Reading Intervention Studies with Highly Successful Results -- Specific Programs Used in Highly Successful Outcome Studies -- Addressing Comprehension Difficulties -- Making It Work: Practical Intervention Issues -- Chapter Twelve: Case Illustrations. Mild Dyslexic Pattern -- Severe Dyslexic Pattern -- ELL Student -- Compensator Pattern -- Mixed Type -- Hyperlexic Type -- Chapter Thirteen: Reading Difficulties and Learning Disability Identification. Far Fewer Students with SLD? -- Characteristics That Suggest an Educational Disability--Part 1: SLD in Word-Level Reading -- Characteristics That Suggest an Educational Disability--Part 2: Reading Comprehension -- General Guidelines for Identifying a Reading Disability -- Afterword |
| Summary |
"Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a detailed discussion of the nature and causes of reading difficulties, which will help develop the knowledge and confidence needed to accurately assess why a student is struggling. Readers will learn a framework for organizing testing results from current assessment batteries such as the WJ-IV, KTEA-3, and CTOPP-2. Case studies illustrate each of the concepts covered. A thorough discussion is provided on the assessment of phonics skills, phonological awareness, word recognition, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Formatted for easy reading as well as quick reference, the text includes bullet points, icons, callout boxes, and other design elements to call attention to important information. Although a substantial amount of research has shown that most reading difficulties can be prevented or corrected, standard reading remediation efforts have proven largely ineffective. School psychologists are routinely called upon to evaluate students with reading difficulties and to make recommendations to address such difficulties. This book provides an overview of the best assessment and intervention techniques, backed by the most current research findings. Bridge the gap between research and practice Accurately assess the reason(s) why a student struggles in reading Improve reading skills using the most highly effective evidence-based techniques Reading may well be the most important thing students are taught during their school careers. It is a skill they will use every day of their lives; one that will dictate, in part, later life success. Struggling students need help now, and Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties shows how to get these students on track"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2021) |
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Reading
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Language and languages.
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Reading
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Language
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Assessment, Testing & Measurement.
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Language and languages
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Reading
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015015962 |
| ISBN |
9781118845400 |
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1118845404 |
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9781118845288 |
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1118845285 |
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