Provides future teachers with practical suggestions for developing a reading and learning programme in the primary school. The text begins with theoretical material, follows with methods for developing literacy skills, and ends with practical information on assessment and organization. An instructor's manual, along with test file and microtest are also available.

Reading for Success in Elementary Schools

Education & Teaching

Flippo, Rona F.

Cheek, Earl H.

Lindsey, Jimmy D.

Schools & Teaching

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School

Reading Assessment & Instruction: A Qualitative Approach to Diagnosis

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Harcourt College Pub.

Grades K - 5 As the reading wars rage on, Rona Flippo brings us hopeful news from the front: "Even though there are numerous differences in perspectives among reading experts, some of whom have been pitted against each other by the media during the 'Wars,' they still do agree on some commonly held ideas and beliefs about contexts and practices for teaching reading in today's schools." Now, in this timely and important volume, Flippo reveals the common ground she uncovered during a decade of repeated interviews and written communications with top reading experts–including Ed Fry, P. David Pearson, and Yetta Goodman. 
In What Do the Experts Say?, anyone who has been affected by the phonics versus whole language debates, which means all of us, will find a thorough and well-balanced presentation of the basic arguments that have fired the controversy. In exploring these issues, Flippo insightfully underscores the critical need for some agreement. Next, she presents the Expert Study itself, with essential information about the various participants and study methods. The areas of agreement are then analyzed and interpreted, but here the book moves beyond the theoretical into the real world, with practicing teachers sharing their own views and classroom experiences. 
In keeping with the book's productive, practical emphasis, the author concludes with a synthesis of all the book's messages and invites readers to participate in a follow-up study designed to give classroom teachers and other school professionals an equal voice. Because ultimately, only when practitioners join the conversation about how best to support developing readers, will they be empowered to make the decisions that are shaping literacy education today.

What Do the Experts Say?: Helping Children Learn to Read

Children's Books

Heinemann

Grades K-6 Rona Flippo's Reading Assessment and Instruction received glowing reviews for its unabashed belief in the capabilities of knowledgeable teachers to make the correct literacy decisions for the students they teach. This revision continues to be unique among reading diagnosis books, bridging the gap between narrative/observation-driven assessment and the more traditional quantitative analysis that typically governs the work of reading specialists. And once again it supports individual classroom teachers' knowledge, beliefs, decisions, and roles, while incorporating the various philosophies in the field of reading and literacy education. Assessing Readers contains specific assessment, instruction, and organizational ideas and strategies, plus these distinctive features: <ul>
<li>an emphasis on assessment of students' strategies, strengths, interests, motivations, fluency, schemata, and metacognitive awareness </li>
<li>lots of sample assessments found throughout the book </li>
<li>attention to the individualization of instruction so that special learners and students from all cultural and sociocultural backgrounds have opportunities to learn </li>
<li>chapters devoted to such topics as understanding standardized tests and scores; assessing affective influences, linguistic strategies, comprehension and cognitive strategies; practical applications from miscue analysis; use of portfolios and rubrics; organizing the classroom; grouping to facilitate ongoing assessment and instruction; and explicit instruction with sample lessons </li>
<li>pedagogical aids that make the book easy to understand and practical to use– <ul>
<li>contextual definitions and a glossary of terms </li>
<li>chapter-opening focus and goal statements </li>
<li>"consider and react" opportunities throughout each chapter </li>
<li>end-of-chapter questions for reflection and response </li>
<li>an appendix of portfolio and rubric assessment forms and ideas. </li> </ul>
</li> </ul>
A handy reference and resource, Assessing Readers above all empowers teachers, encouraging them to think about the value of their assessment and instruction choices and supporting them with tools to help them achieve their goals.

Assessing Readers: Qualitative Diagnosis and Instruction

Texts and Tests is a unique nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers of grades 1 through 8 that covers not only the teaching of study skills, but also test-taking techniques in ALL subject areas. Rona Flippo spells out specific study-learning strategies to develop and reinforce: 
<ul>
<li>reading </li>
<li>report writing </li>
<li>summarizing </li>
<li>response writing </li>
<li>outlining </li>
<li>discussing </li>
<li>researching </li>
<li>preparing for objective or essay tests </li> </ul>–all applicable across the curriculum, no matter what grade you teach.

Texts and Tests: Teaching Study Skills Across Content Areas

Grades K-6           Building strong, independent reading in grades K-6 is one of the best ways to develop lifelong readers, and giving children options for free reading promotes personal ownership over literacy growth. In Personal Reading, Rona Flippo guides you through the process of aligning each student in your classroom with selections that are not only appropriate for them but whose content will excite them into opening new books. Personal Reading shows you how to meet the motivations of each student, while avoiding pigeonholing children into a predetermined series of texts that may not address their individual interests and needs, nor foster independence. Flippo includes numerous reproducible forms that help teachers inventory children's favorite topics, curiosities, and purposes, as well as ideas for activities that engage learners in their own personal-reading development. With the help of Personal Reading you'll learn key strategies for matching children to books, including:   assessing children's prior reading knowledge gauging students real interests, motivations, and purposes differentiating books and instruction to match individual children offering children a variety of genres providing activities that build personal-reading momentum getting parents, families, and communities involved.   The path to a lifetime of reading enjoyment begins in your classroom. Read Personal Reading, use its many "Try It Out" activities and practical forms, checklists, and tools. You'll find the right books for your students and make their first steps into a life of self-sustaining literacy positive ones.  

Personal Reading: How to Match Children to Books

Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research

The Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source available for college reading and study strategy practitioners and administrators. In this thorough and systematic examination of theory, research, and practice, college reading teachers will find information to make better instructional decisions, administrators will find justification for programmatic implementations, and professors will find in one book both theory and practice to better prepare graduate students to understand the parameters and issues of this field. No other book currently provides a comprehensive collection of information, though college reading and study strategy programs continue to expand and can be found in four-year colleges, universities, community/junior colleges, medical schools, technical schools, and other postsecondary institutions around the world. The Handbook is an essential resource for professionals, researchers, and students as they continue to study, research, learn, and share more about college reading and study strategy issues and instruction.

This exciting new book provides future teachers with practical suggestions to develop a facilitative reading and learning program in the elementary classroom. It's logically organized beginning with theoretical material, followed by methods for developing literacy skills and strategies, and finally, practical information on assessment and organization.

Mcgraw-Hill College

Teaching Reading & Study Strategies at the College Level

Intl Literacy Assn

College Reading and Study Strategy Programs

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Reading for Success in Elementary Schools

Reading Assessment & Instruction: A Qualitative Approach to Diagnosis

What Do the Experts Say?: Helping Children Learn to Read

Assessing Readers: Qualitative Diagnosis and Instruction

Texts and Tests: Teaching Study Skills Across Content Areas

Personal Reading: How to Match Children to Books

Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research

Reading for Success in Elementary Schools

Teaching Reading & Study Strategies at the College Level

College Reading and Study Strategy Programs