Case Studies in Preparation for the California Reading Competency Test

This concise, case-based text helps pre-service and practicing teachers prepare for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA). Drs. Rossi and Schipper cover all domains, concepts, strategies and assessments required by RICA. The cases cover a wide variety of student profiles and grade levels reflecting California's school population and include a variety of scenarios for whole classes, groups, and individual students. However, the usefulness of this text goes beyond RICA preparation. It's a terrific companion to any literacy methods text for teacher preparation courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as inservice teaching. The real-life scenarios reflect the literacy learning situations teachers encounter in actual classrooms and help teachers place their knowledge of reading methods and strategies into realistic contexts. All cases reflect research-based

This concise, case-based text helps pre-service and practicing teachers prepare for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA). A terrific companion to any literacy methods text for teacher preparation courses, the book includes cases from a wide variety of grade levels and student profiles, and provides scenarios for teaching whole classes, groups, and individual students. Drs. Rossi and Schipper cover all domains, concepts, strategies, and assessments required by RICA, and each case reflects research-based concepts and strategies covered in major reading methods and diagnosis texts.

 

New features to this edition include entertaining, informative case studies enhanced with reader feedback as well as model narratives rewritten to reflect RICA’s new style of questions and answers. The authors provide specific answers to case study questions that cover the strengths, needs, and strategies for each one, and an updated bibliography, organized by topic, allows students to seek additional information on problem areas.