The Howard Street Tutoring Manual

Teaching At-Risk Readers in the Primary Grades
2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-59385-124-8
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

This indispensable manual provides a comprehensive guide to one-on-one instruction for struggling readers in grades 1 to 3. The book addresses the hows, whats, and whys of setting up a volunteer or professional tutoring program, supplies assessment guidelines and reproducible forms, and presents in-depth case studies that demonstrate the nuts and bolts of tutoring three children at different stages of early literacy over an entire school year. Case study chapters offer clear descriptions of lesson plans, instructional activities, and informal assessment procedures, illustrated with realistic examples of student work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Darrell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Tutoring Model
2. The Initial Reading Assessment
3. Atticus, the Emergent Reader
4. Beth, the Fledgling Reader
5. Curt, the Late-First- to Second-Grade-Level Reader

Über Autor(innen)

Darrell Morris, EdD, is a professor of education and the director of the Reading Clinic at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1980, after which he began his college teaching career at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois. Since moving to Appalachian State in 1989, he has directed the master's program in reading, researched the beginning reading and spelling processes, and helped school districts throughout the country set up early reading-intervention programs.