KEY BENEFIT: Gives teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, school psychologists, special education teachers, and Title I teachers over 65 instructional techniques they can differentiate instruction to meet the diverse learning needs of their students–all explained in easy, step-by-step procedures and complete with important diagnostic information for each technique.
KEY TOPICS: Framework for instruction, progress monitoring, literacy development, effective reading teacher research, teaching culturally diverse learners and English language learners, Response to Intervention, the importance of writing to reading development, assessment techniques, and the literacy event.
MARKET: Pre-service and in-service teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, school psychologists, special education teachers, and Title I teachers
Diagnostic Teaching of Reading, 7/e, by renowned author Barbara J. Walker, is the ideal resource for pre-service and in-service educators, including teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, school psychologists, special education teachers, and Title I teachers. In it they see how to use a variety of instructional and assessment techniques to help plan lessons designed to improve literacy for all learners in their charge.
Included are over 65 instructional techniques that meet the diverse learning needs of all students, including struggling readers and writers, English language learners, and culturally diverse learners. With the information presented here, teachers see how to continually reflect on their instructional practices and tailor their instruction to the strengths and needs of the diverse children they teach.
Barbara Walker