Understanding Reading Problems : Assessment and Instruction

This market-leading text helps teachers create engaged readers at all age levels, from primary grades through adolescence, through its comprehensive exploration of strategies for reading assessment and instruction. Heavily revised, the new edition maintains its focus on struggling readers and emphasizes classroom-based, rather than clinical, approaches. Understanding Reading Problems, 5/e, integrates case studies and a reader friendly style with the latest research.

JEAN WALLACE GILLET has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and university educator. She is currently an elementary reading specialist and teaches undergraduate and graduate reading courses in Charlottesville, VA. She has co-authored several widely-used college texts, is senior author of an elementary spelling series, and has been a staff development consultant to dozens of school districts.

CHARLES TEMPLE is Professor of Education at the College of William and Mary. He taught for seventeen years at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and is the author of many books on literacy and several books for children. He currently is co-Director of the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project, a teacher education project active in twenty countries in central Europe and Asia.