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Remediating Reading Difficulties

ISBN10: 0078110246 | ISBN13: 9780078110245

Remediating Reading Difficulties

Remediating Reading Difficulties, 6th Edition

ISBN10: 0078110246
ISBN13: 9780078110245
By Sharon Crawley and King Merritt
© 2012

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Brief and accessible, the sixth edition of Remediating Reading Difficulties defines specific reading skills and problems and then presents practical, easy-to-implement activities and strategies for correcting these problems. Although especially helpful for children with diagnosed difficulties, this quick-reference guide effectively reinforces skills that are useful to all children, including those who are limited English proficient or are speakers of other languages.

UNIT I: EMERGENT/BEGINNING LITERACY SKILLS

1: Concepts of Print

2: Letter Identification

3: Phonological Awareness

UNIT II: WORD ANALYSIS SKILLS

4: Sight Word Recognition

5: Picture Clues

6: Phonic Analysis

7: Syllabic Analysis

UNIT III: VOCABULARY

8: Graphic Organizers

9: Morphology

10: Context

11: Word Relationships

12: Extending an Interest in Vocabulary

UNIT IV: FLUENCY

13: Major Fluency Strategies

14: Fluency Miscues

15: Decreasing Faulty Habits

UNIT V: TEXT COMPREHENSION

16: Preparing Students to Read

17: Organizational Structures

18: Elaborative Structures

19: Questioning Structures

20. Teaching Structures

UNIT VI: STUDY SKILLS

21: Adjusting Reading Rate

22: Memory and StudyAids

23: Listening

UNIT VII: AFFECTIVE AREAS

24: Improving Self-Concept

25: Developing Interests

26: Suggestions for Parents

UNIT VIII: SPECIALIZED APPROACHES

27: Kinesthetic Method

28: Neurological Impress Method

29: Reading Recovery Method

30: Language Experience

UNIT IX: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

31: Characteristics of English Language Learners

32: Teaching English Language Learners

APPENDIX A: Major Word Analysis Generalizations

APPENDIX B: Word Lists for Word Analysis Elements

APPENDIX C: Common Phonograms (Rimes)

APPENDIX D: Developing a Teaching Kit

APPENDIX E: Award-Winning Books

APPENDIX F: Teachers’ Resources for Finding Books

APPENDIX G: Phonics, Assessment, Struggling and Emergent Readers

APPENDIX H: High Interest, Low Vocabulary, ESL, ELL, ABE

APPENDIX I: Handwriting, Technology, Teachers’ Resources

APPENDIX J: Publishing Companies

References Index

About the Author

Sharon Crawley

Sharon J. Crawley is currently a professor at Florida Atlantic University teaching diagnosis, content reading, and reading in elementary school. She received her Ed.D. from the University of Houston. She is also the author ofStrategies for Guiding Content Reading (Allyn & Bacon) and Jamestown Heritage Readers (Jamestown Publications).

King Merritt

King Merritt was formerly an Associate Professor and Director of the Reading Center at the University of Texas at El Paso where he taught courses in the Diagnostic Teaching of Reading. He received his E.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. Other books published include The Reading Skills Inventory (Parker, 1980). Strategies for Improving Reading in Social Studies (Kendall-Hunt, 1979) and Historical Perspectives of Charles Merritt: 1652-1718 (Gateway, 1987).

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