Recommended Teacher Resources
Journal
Articles
Samuels,
Jay. (1997).
The method of repeated readings. The Reading Teacher, 50(5),
376-382
This
article discusses the importance of repeated readings in any literature
program. It highlights how to use repeated readings in a literature
program. It also reports research conducted using repeated readings with a
mentally retarded student.
Saenz,
Laura. (2002). Examining the reading difficulty of secondary students with
learning disabilities. Remedial & Special Education. 23(1),
31-42.
This article describes research conducted with 111 high school students with learning disabilities concerning reading expository versus narrative text. The students were asked to read 4 passages 2 expository and 2 narratives. Reading fluency was measured as words read correctly in two minutes. The students were then asked 10 comprehension questions. This research found that students with LD had more difficulty reading and comprehending expository passages than narrative passages. This article recommends specific strategies to increase reading fluency including: repeated readings, class-wide peer tutoring and previewing.
Recommended Books
Name
of Book:
Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3
Author(s):
Fountas
and Pinnell
Copyright:
ISBN:
Phone
Number: 1-800-541-2086
Fax:
1-800-847-0938
E-mail:
http://www.heinemann.com
Cost:
~
$30.00
Information:
Matching
Books to Readers
compiles more than seven thousand books for kindergarten through grade
three. There is also a lot of
information on how you can use, acquire, and level books yourself.
Name
of Book:
Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for
Teaching Reading Disabled Students
Author(s):
Wilma
H. Miller
Copyright:
1993
Name
of Book:
Classroom Activities for Correcting Specific Reading Problems
Author:
Stephen Pavalak
Copyright:
1985
ISBN
# 0-13-136219-4
Publisher:
NY:
Parker Publishing Company
Information:
This book contains games and activities to build phonic analysis,
oral reading, comprehension and structural analysis skills.
Name
of Book: Locating
and Correcting Reading Difficulties.
Author: Eldon Ekwall
Copyright:
1985
ISBN:
0-675-20347-3
Publisher:
Bell
& Howell Company
Information:
This book provides strategies for teacher to locate and remediate
reading difficulties.
Name
of Book: Reading
and Learning Disability
Author:
Estelle L. Fryburg
Copyright:
1997
ISBN#
0-398-06745-7
Publisher:
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD.
Information:
This book highlights the causes of specific types of disabilities and
strategies to help students overcome specific processing deficits.
Name
of Book: What
Really Matters for Struggling Readers
Author:
Richard
Allington
Copyright:
2001
ISBN#
0-321-06396-1
Publisher:
Addison
Wesley Educational Publisher Inc.
Information:
This book reviews research and strategies that work with struggling
readers.
Name
of Book: Supporting
Struggling Readers and Writers: Strategies for Classroom Interventions 3-6
Author:
Dorothy Strickland, Kathy Ganske & Joanne Monroe
Copyright:
2002
ISBN#
1-57110-055-5
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Information:
This book offers research-based practices for improving students’
reading and writing skills.
Bibliography
Adams,
M.J. (1990). Beginning to read: thinking and learning about print.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Allington
R. (2001) What really matters for struggling readers.
NY: Addison Wesley Longmont.
Chall,
J.S., Bissex, G., Conard, S., and Harris-Sharples, S. (1996).
Qualitative assessment of text difficulty: a practical guide for
teachers and authors. Cambridge, MA: Brookline.
Ekwall,
E. (1985). Locating and correcting reading difficulties.
Howell Company
Founta
I.C., and G.S. Pinnell.(1996). Guided
reading: good first teaching for all children.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Martimez,
M., N. L. Roser and S.K. Stecker (1999).
“I never thought I could be a star: A readers theater ticket to
fluency” The Reading Teacher 52: 326-334
Pavalak,
S. (1985). Classroom
activities for correcting specific reading problems.
NY: Parker Publishing Company
Saenz,
Laura. (2002). “Examining the reading difficulty of secondary students
with learning disabilities.” Remedial & Special Education.
23(1), 31-42.
Samuels,
Jay. (1997).
“The method of repeated readings.” The Reading Teacher, 50(5),
376-382
Strecker,
S.K. (2001). “Questions Teachers Are Asking About Reading Fluency.”
The California Reader 34: 23-26
Strickland,
Dd., Ganske, K. & Monroe, J. (2002).
Supporting struggling readers and writers.
Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
Vacca,
J.L., Vacca, R.T., and M.K. Grove. (2000). Reading and learning to read.
(4th ed.). New York: Longman