The Howard Street Tutoring Manual: Teaching At-Risk Readers in the Primary Grades - Softcover

Morris, Darrell

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9781572304444: The Howard Street Tutoring Manual: Teaching At-Risk Readers in the Primary Grades

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ISBN 10: 1572304448 ISBN 13: 9781572304444

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1999

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This book prepares professionals and students to conduct one-to-one instruction with struggling readers and to conceptualize and develop tutorial programs. Written by the developer of Chicago's Howard Street tutorial program, the manual is grounded in theory and research and incorporates a range of new findings on emergent and at-risk readers in grades one through three. Readers learn procedures for assessing such literacy skills as word recognition, oral reading, and spelling. In-depth case studies are presented, following the progress of three children at different stages of early literacy over the course of an entire school year. Featuring detailed descriptions of teaching plans, lessons, and informal assessments, as well as word lists, reading lists, and illustrative figures, the case studies show how empirically validated teaching strategies and methods can be tailored to each learner's developmental needs.

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This manual has two important strengths. First, it is based on rigorous experimental research. Second, it contains carefully detailed guidelines for conducting assessments, developing lesson plans, and implementing effective teaching strategies with struggling readers....Morris is a highly respected reading expert, and the manual is theoretically based yet presented in a fashion that is easy to read and implement. This manual is a great tool for volunteer tutors and students learning to become reading teachers, as well as for experienced classroom teachers and reading specialists (Barbara A. Wasik, PhD ).

About the Author:

Darrell Morris, EdD, is a professor of education and the director of the Reading Clinic at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1980, upon which he began his college teaching career at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois. Since moving to Appalachian State in 1989, he has directed the masters program in reading, researched the beginning reading and spelling processes, and helped school districts set up early reading-intervention programs. Dr. Morris lives with his wife and two teenage children in Boone.

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