Understanding Reading Problems (9^th Ed.) Assessment and Instruction, Loose-Leaf Version

 A market-leading guide to assessing children?s and young people?s literacy and implementing corrective instruction, covering reading and writing at every stage of development.

KEY TOPICS: Reading assessment and instruction, diagnosis and correction of reading difficulties, remedial instruction, response to intervention, teaching English language learners, Common Core State Standards and reading instruction

MARKET: Teachers responsible for assessing children?s and young people?s literacy, grades K-8

Jean Gillet has been an elementary reading specialist in central Virginia. She has also served as a classroom teacher, staff development specialist, and university educator. Her professional interests include the diagnosis and correction of reading difficulties, children’s developmental spelling, and children’s writing. Jean’s extensive published work includes topics such as including contributing to classroom instructional materials on writing and spelling. The coauthor of several textbooks for teachers on language arts, reading, writing, and spelling, she received her doctorate from the University of Virginia.

Charles Temple teaches courses in literacy, children’s literature, and storytelling at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He trained as a reading clinician at the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia where he earned his Ph.D. He has co-authored many textbooks for teacher education, including All Children Reading, Children’s Books in Children’s Hands, The Beginnings of Writing, and The Developmental Literacy Inventory.  Temple has worked on literacy and democratization projects on five continents, and currently volunteers as a teacher trainer and children’s book editor in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Tanzania. He plays banjo and guitar, and is a children’s book author.

Codruca Temple teaches courses in literacy, applied linguistics, and teaching methods for English Language Learners at the State University of New York at Cortland, where she oversees certification programs for teachers of foreign languages and programs for TESOL, preschool through grade 12.  She earned her doctorate in English Education and Linguistics at Syracuse University. She is coauthor of The Beginnings of Writing. Charles and Codruca Temple have five children and two grandchildren

• Highly readable, student accessible, and teacher-friendly.
  • The clear writing style throughout is a result of the authors’ backgrounds as professional writers, experts in literacy, and experienced teacher trainers.
  • The book’s organization–introduction of the concepts, followed by detail on assessment and teaching procedures–enhances students’ abilities to comprehend the material, while making it easier to teach from, especially in assessment and corrective teaching courses populated by students with different background knowledge.
• Thorough coverage of assessing and teaching all students.
  • NEW! The challenges of assessing and teaching English language learners and linguistically and culturally different students is covered in depth in Chapter 9 and as a section on teaching ELLs in every chapter.
  • Laws and policies affecting children with special needs, as well as other physical and cognitive factors that impinge on students’ literacy growth are covered in depth.
• NEW! The latest information on the Common Core State Standards.
  • Requirements of the Standards are covered throughout, providing invaluable advice for meeting those standards.
  • Text Complexity, which has replaced “readability” in the language of the Common Core State Standards, is covered in this new edition.
  • Close reading, also a new requirement of the Standards, is covered in Chapters 5 and 7 to show readers what’s needed to intelligently navigate the language and structures of informational and narrative texts.