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Struggling Readers: Assessment and Instruction in Grades K-6reviewed by Laura May - 2004 Title: Struggling Readers: Assessment and Instruction in Grades K-6 Author(s): Ernest Balajthy and Sally Lipa-Wade Publisher: Guilford Press, New York ISBN: 1572308524, Pages: 285, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com In their book Struggling Readers: Assessment and Instruction
in Grades K-6, Ernest Balajthy and Sally Lipa-Wade provide one
way to address the important issue of what to do with students who
read below grade level. As educators focus their attention on how
to reach the needs of every single student, many schools and
districts are focusing their attention on ways to help those
children who read below grade level. This book is complete with
detailed case study examples, and all readers will find the broad
range of assessment devices provided in the appendix useful.
But the authors attempt a difficult goal: to place all
below-level readers into three categories. Once teachers or reading
specialists have placed students into one of these categories, the
authors prescribe specific teaching interventions that will most
effectively help the reader. Catch-on, catch-up, and
stalled—You may wonder what Ernest Balajthy and Sally
Lipa-Wade are describing? I initially thought it could be cars, or
maybe races. But no, it is children that... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Laura May
University of Texas at Austin E-mail Author LAURA MAY is a reading specialist at a Title I school outside of Houston. She holds a Masters degree from the University of Texas Austin in the Dept. of Language and Literacy. Her primary interests include reading intervention strategies, literacy practices for second-language learners, and improving literacy schoolwide.
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