Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students - Softcover

Miller, Wilma H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876282494 ISBN 13: 9780876282496

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1993

Synopsis

This unique handbook gives reading and learning disability teachers one of the most comprehensive and practical resources available today for diagnosing and remediating all types of reading disabilities in elementary and middle school students. Included are easy-to-follow explanations of the various causes of reading disabilities and over 100 reproducible assessment devices, corrective activity sheets, and other aids. And all of this material is printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying of test and activity pages as many times as needed for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class!

About this title

About the Author

Wilma H. Miller, Ed.D., is currently Professor of Education at Illinois State University in Normal, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate students in reading for 25 years. Prior to that she was an elementary school teacher in Illinois and Arizona.
Dr. Miller has published nearly 200 journal articles dealing with various aspects of reading such as The Reading Teacher, Elementary English and Reading Horizons. She has also authored 17 books in the field, including Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook (1997) and Ready-to-Use Activities and Materials for Improving Content Reading Skills (2000), Reading Teacher's Complete Diagnosis and Correction Manual (1988), and Reading Comprehension Activities Kit, (1990), published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.

From the Back Cover

This unique handbook gives reading and learning disability teachers one of the most comprehensive and practical resources available today for diagnosing and remediating all types of reading disabilities in elementary and middle school students. 

Included are easy-to-follow explanations of the various courses of reading disabilities and over 100 reproducible assessment devices, corrective activity sheets, and other aids. And all of this material is printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying of test and activity pages as many times as needed for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class!

Here are just a few of the special features you'll find in the Handbook:

• case studies of actual children showing how reading problems are caused by different kinds of factors
• scores of ready-to-use assessment devices to help you accurately identify a child's specific reading weaknesses
• a complete Individual Reading Inventory for determining a student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels
• step-by-step directions for using oral reading miscue analysis effectively
• reproducible activity sheets for improving students' ability in visual perception, letter identification, sight word recognition, graphophonic analysis, structural analysis, semantic analysis, and reading comprehension
• a description of the contemporary Reading Recovery Program which is being used with at-risk children
• specific strategies for use with learning handicapped children
• appendices listing publishers/distributors of actual computer software and materials for improving competency in word identification and comprehension skills.

In short, Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook is brimming with ready-to-use, classroom-tested strategies and materials for working with reading disabled children. It will be an invaluable, time-saving resource for all teachers in the effort to help each child achieve his/her optimal potential in reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876282494
• ISBN 13: 9780876282496
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 406