| Whats After Assessment?/Follow-Up Instructions for Phonics, Fluency and Comprehension: Follow-Up Instruction for Phonics, Fluency, and Comprehension Contributor(s): Strickland, Kathleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0325005729 ISBN-13: 9780325005720 Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books OUR PRICE: $34.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2005 Annotation: If you're like many teachers, you may have successfully assessed the strengths and needs of your struggling readers, but the wide array of reading activities in teaching manuals leaves you asking yourself: Now what? In "What's After Assessment?," Kathleen Strickland provides a comprehensive instructional resource that will help you select the strategies that best match your students' needs. With emphases on engaging kids in the process of improving their own reading and on differentiated teaching, Strickland shows you how to develop children's abilities to use semantic, syntactic, and graphic strategies to help them build a variety of meaning-making skills. Working with the latest research, Strickland provides you with: a detailed "If...Then" chart that explicitly matches reading needs to instructional possibilitiesmore than 100 classroom-tested, developmentally appropriate activities that really work because they help students read strategically26 reproducibles to help you implement specific strategiessmart advice on topics like grouping, helping readers take ownership of their learning, and helping readers choose appropriate books. Stop struggling with instruction for developing readers, and think strategically. Read "What's After Assessment?" and get your students doing the activities of reading, not just doing reading activities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Language Experience Approach - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics - Education | Elementary |
| Dewey: 372.41 |
| LCCN: 2004030645 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 8.4" W x 11" (0.93 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If you're like many teachers, you may have successfully assessed the strengths and needs of your struggling readers, but the wide array of reading activities in teaching manuals leaves you asking yourself: Now what? In What's After Assessment?, Kathleen Strickland provides a comprehensive instructional resource that will help you select the strategies that best match your students' needs. With emphases on engaging kids in the process of improving their own reading and on differentiated teaching, Strickland shows you how to develop children's abilities to use semantic, syntactic, and graphic strategies to help them build a variety of meaning-making skills. Working with the latest research, Strickland provides you with:
Stop struggling with instruction for developing readers, and think strategically. Read What's After Assessment? and get your students doing the activities of reading, not just doing reading activities. |
Contributor Bio(s): Strickland, Kathleen: - After years as a classroom teacher and reading specialist, Kathleen Strickland now teaches undergraduate and graduate students at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. She has written numerous books for Heinemann with her husband James, including Engaged in Learning (2002), Making Assessment Elementary (2000), and Reflections on Assessment (1998). Her book Literacy Not Labels (1995) tells the story of her two-year study of a literature-rich special education classroom. She has given keynote addresses and conducted workshops for professional development for teachers from the Big Island in Hawaii to Atlantic City, New Jersey. |