Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students

This unique handbook gives reading and learning disability teachers one of the most comprehensive and practical resources available today for diagnosing and remediating all types of reading disabilities in elementary and middle school students.

Included are easy–to–follow explanations of the various courses of reading disabilities and over 100 reproducible assessment devices, corrective activity sheets, and other aids. And all of this material is printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying of test and activity pages as many times as needed for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class!

Here are just a few of the special features you′ll find in the Handbook:

• case studies of actual children showing how reading problems are caused by different kinds of factors
• scores of ready–to–use assessment devices to help you accurately identify a child′s specific reading weaknesses
• a complete Individual Reading Inventory for determining a student′s independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels
• step–by–step directions for using oral reading miscue analysis effectively
• reproducible activity sheets for improving students′ ability in visual perception, letter identification, sight word recognition, graphophonic analysis, structural analysis, semantic analysis, and reading comprehension
• a description of the contemporary Reading Recovery Program which is being used with at–risk children
• specific strategies for use with learning handicapped children
• appendices listing publishers/distributors of actual computer software and materials for improving competency in word identification and comprehension skills.

In short, Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook is brimming with ready–to–use, classroom–tested strategies and materials for working with reading disabled children. It will be an invaluable, time–saving resource for all teachers in the effort to help each child achieve his/her optimal potential in reading.