Assessing and addressing literacy needs
Subtitle: cases and instructional strategies
By: Barbara Combs
Publisher: SAGE; SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781412975292
Subjects: Remedial teaching; Training of; Reading; Ability testing; Reading teachers
Description: "Assessing and Addressing Literacy Needs: Cases and Instructional Strategies is designed to help preservice and inservice teachers understand the problems that children encounter when learning to read and to provide key instructional strategies related to best practices in literacy instruction. The text promotes reflection and analysis that will provoke thoughtful responses and discussions to help teachers use assessments to identify problems and employ appropriate strategies to help their students become better readers"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Machine generated contents note: About the AuthorAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: Introduction to Literacy Assessment and InstructionChapter 2: Focus on Emergent LiteracyChatper 2: Focus on Word IdentificationChapter 3: Focus on FluencyChapter 4: Focus on VocabularyChapter 5: Focus on ComprehensionChapter 6: Focus on EngagementGlossaryIndex.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction to literacy assessment and instruction; title: Focus on emergent  literacyl; title: Focus on word identification; title: Focus on fluency; title: Focus on vocabulary; title: Focus on comprehension; title: Focus on engagement; title: Glossary..