Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties

Updated and reorganized to be even more useful, this popular book's twenty-nine chapters divided into six major sections once again provide busy pre-service and in-service reading teachers the essential tools they need—specific, concrete methods—for helping struggling readers become successful readers. KEY TOPICS The authors' easy-to-read language effectively explains what to do in the diagnostic/remedial process; and twenty-four exceptionally thorough appendices offer hands-on tools for doing it. While individual instruction is clearly identified as the ideal, numerous strategies are also offered for both small- and large-group instruction. Emphasis is on direct instruction, motivational learning activities, and “practice, practice, practice.†For elementary school reading teachers.

One of the most popular volumes in reading education...a practical, "how to" book that provides future elementary reading teachers with concrete, straightforward methods for identifying and correcting 28 common reading errors.