1. Overview of Reading and Reading Problems -- Introduction -- Reading Problems: A National Dilemma -- Recent Influences on the Teaching of Reading -- Key Elements of Teaching Reading 2. Factors Associated With Reading Problems -- Introduction -- Neurological and Cognitive Factors -- Environmental Factors -- Emotional Factors -- Intelligence and Intellectual Factors -- Language Factors -- 3. Gathering Data to Develop Students' Literacy Profiles -- Introduction -- Information About the Environment -- Information About the Individual -- Methods of Collecting Information -- 4. Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Assessments -- Introduction -- Using Both Formal and Informal Assessment --Tests of General Reading Assessment -- Diagnostic Reading Tests -- -- Measuring Factors Related to Reading -- Measuring Intelligence -- 5. Administering an Informal Reading Inventory -- Introduction -- Does the Student Have a Reading Problem and How Severe Is It? -- What Is the General Area of the Reading Problem? -- Overview of Informal Assessment Measures -- IRIs and Response-to-Intervention -- Combining IRI Assessment With Think-Alouds -- 6. Providing Instruction and Intervention Strategies -- Introduction -- A New Perspective on Intervention: Grade-Level Competence -- Successful Intervention Programs -- Guidelines for Teaching Struggling Readers -- 7. Early Literacy -- Introduction -- Early Literacy Concepts -- Strategies to Develop Early Literacy Concepts -- 8. Improving Word Knowledge: Word Recognition -- Introduction -- Stages of Word Recognition Development -- Strategies for Identifying Words -- Word Recognition and the Common Core Standards -- Assessing Phonics Strategies-- Teaching Phonics Strategies -- Assessing Structural Analysis Strategies -- Teaching Structural Analysis Strategies -- Word Recognition Strategies and Response-to-Intervention (RTI) -- 9. Improving Word Knowledge: Fluency -- Introduction -- The Role of Fluency in the Reading Process -- Fluency and the Common Core Standards -- Assessing Fluency -- General Guidelines for Fluency Development -- Strategies for Developing Fluency in Context -- Strategies for Developing Sight Words in Isolation -- Word Recognition Fluency and Response-to-Intervention (RTI) -- 10. Vocabulary Development and Listening Comprehension -- Introduction -- Importance of Language to Reading -- Assessing Language Abilities -- Conditions That Foster Language Learning -- Strategies for Fostering Language: Listening Comprehension -- Strategies for Fostering Language: Meaning Vocabulary -- Using Poetry to Develop Language -- 11. Comprehension of Narrative Text -- Introduction -- Improving Comprehension Before Reading -- Improving Comprehension During Reading -- Improving Comprehension After Reading -- Connecting the Literacy Experience -- 12. Comprehension of Informational Text -- Introduction -- Organization of Informational Text -- Informational Text and the Common Core Standards -- Assessing Abilities With Informational Text Using the Informal Reading Inventory -- Strategies for Helping Students Read Informational Text -- Strategies for Transforming Informational Text -- 13. Integrating Reading and Writing -- Introduction -- Importance of Teaching Writing -- Assessing Writing -- Writing Instruction -- Personal Communication --Strategies for Integrating Reading and Writing -- Writing With Poetry -- Handwriting -- 14. Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners: English Language Learners, Literacy in a Culturally Diverse Society, Parents and Families, Adolescents and Adults With Reading Problems -- Introduction -- English Language Learners -- Literacy in a Culturally Diverse Society -- The Important Role of Families and Parents in Fostering Literacy -- Adolescents With Reading Problems -- Adults With Reading Problems -- 15. Literacy Instruction for Students With Special Needs -- Introduction -- Students With Disabilities -- The Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 -- The Individualized Education Program -- Transition Services -- Educational Environments -- Learning Disabilities -- Providing Reading Instruction for Students With Special Needs -- Direct Instruction Reading Program -- 16. Literacy Support as a Collaborative Process -- Introduction -- Changing Roles of Reading Specialists -- Role of the Reading Specialist in Assessment -- Role of the Reading Specialist in Instruction.
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