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Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction and Assessment, 6-12 / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1598573594
- ISBN-13:
- 9781598573596
- Pub. Date:
- 10/01/2014
- Publisher:
- Brookes Publishing
- ISBN-10:
- 1598573594
- ISBN-13:
- 9781598573596
- Pub. Date:
- 10/01/2014
- Publisher:
- Brookes Publishing
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Overview
PREPARE FUTURE EDUCATORS TO
- teach the fundamental components of literacy, with special emphasis on fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- address the Common Core State Standards
- prepare students for college and career by teaching literacy in content areas
- differentiate instruction for struggling students and English language learners
- implement the highly effective RTI model and other multi-tiered systems of support
- apply evidence-based instructional strategies in the classroom
- use current legislation to inform classroom instruction
STUDENT-FRIENDLY FEATURES: Practical sample lesson plans for use in tutoring and student teaching, classroom examples illustrating recommended practices, helpful chapter objectives and summaries, in-class exercises and homework assignments, an appendix of formative assessment strategies.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781598573596 |
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Publisher: | Brookes Publishing |
Publication date: | 10/01/2014 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 11.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.90(d) |
Age Range: | 11 - 17 Years |
About the Author
While working at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin College of Education, Dr. Hougen led the Higher Education Collaborative (HEC). The HEC provided collaborative and professional development opportunities for teacher educators in literacy throughout Texas. She continued this work on a national scale with the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform Center (CEEDAR Center) at the University of Florida, working with state departments, institutes of higher education, and school districts.
Currently, Dr. Hougen is a national consultant collaborating with state departments and institutes of higher education to improve educator preparation. She also serves on the board of The Center for Effective Reading Instruction.
Dr. Hougen has contributed to numerous professional publications on literacy and teacher education, including two textbooks: The Fundamentals of Literacy Assessment & Instruction, Pre-K–6, 1st and 2nd editions (2012 and 2020) and The Fundamentals of Literacy Assessment & Instruction, 6–12 (2014).
Leslie C. Novosel, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the College of Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; she received her doctorate from the University of Kansas. Dr. Novosel is a former special educator and reading teacher for incarcerated youth with disabilities. Dr. Novosel is driven to improve the literacy and life outcomes of vulnerable adolescents who are at risk of school failure. She credits the editor of this book, Dr. Martha Hougen, for her guidance and inspiration.
Susan M. Smartt, Ph.D. As a senior research associate at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Smartt engaged in research, writing, and teaching focused on improving teacher preparation in reading. Previously, she was a national literacy consultant with state departments, teacher preparation programs, and local school districts. Her work focused on facilitating school reform, implementing, reading intervention for low-performing schools, using data to inform practice, developing Response to Intervention initiatives, and implementing scientifically based literacy programs.
Dr. Smartt owned and directed a reading clinic for more than 20 years in which she provided comprehensive psychoeducational assessments, dyslexia evaluations, and tutoring services. She has been a classroom teacher, a reading coach, a reading specialist, and a principal. She was an early contributor to the development of LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) (Moats & Tolman, 2017) and past president of the Tennessee branch of the International Dyslexia Association. Her publications include journal articles, edited volumes, and books on research-based reading intervention and policy initiatives, including Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions (Smartt & Glaser, 2010). Currently, Dr. Smartt tutors and provides advocacy services for students with dyslexia.
Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is Director of the UIC Center for Literacy. Previously, he was Director of Reading for the Chicago Public Schools, serving 437,000 children. His research focuses on the relationship of reading and writing, school improvement, the assessment of reading ability, and family literacy. He has published more than 200 research, articles, chapters, and books on literacy.
Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D., is a leading researcher, educational consultant, and author who works with schools in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Hasbrouck worked as a reading specialist and coach for 15 years and later became a professor. Her research in reading fluency, academic assessment and interventions, and instructional coaching has been widely published. She is the author and coauthor of several books, curriculum materials, and assessment tools. She continues to collaborate with researchers on projects related to reading assessment and intervention.
Susan M. Ebbers, M.S.,taught middle and elementary grades for 15 years before moving into administration, curriculum writing, and research. Her doctoral studies focused on vocabulary development, morphological awareness, and the development of literacy. Her curricular materials are published by Voyager Sopris Learning. Her children's literature is published by Rowe Publishing.
Stephen Ciullo, Ph.D., . Dr. Ciullo is an associate professor of special education at Texas State University. He earned his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on improving writing and reading outcomes for students with learning disabilities. Dr. Ciullo also conducts research to support the content-area literacy instruction of educators who teach students with learning disabilities. He was previously a special education teacher in New York.
Dr. Reutebuch holds a doctorate in special education with experience directing large-scale intervention, evaluation, and, professional development projects. She has served as a classroom teacher and reading coach before transitioning into higher education. Her areas of research include reading difficulty/disability in children and youth, including those targeting English learners and individuals with autism.
Joan Sedita, M.Ed., is the Founder and President of Keys to Literacy, which specializes in providing professional development for literacy across the United States. She worked at the Landmark School for students with learning disabilities from 1975 to 1998. She was the lead trainer in Massachusetts for Reading First and a national LETRS trainer and author. At Keys to Literacy, she develops professional development programs, books, and online courses that focus on reading and writing instruction for all grades. Joan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and her Master of Education degree in reading from Harvard University.
Jennifer B. Wick Schnakenberg, Ph.D., is the principal investigator for the Texas Literacy Initiative at the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts and the project director for Preventing School Dropout with Secondary Students: The Implementation of an Individualized Reading Intervention and Dropout Prevention Intervention at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include teacher effectiveness, the impacts of professional development on teacher learning and student achievement, interventions for students with reading difficulties at all ages, and how leadership influences school culture and climate.
Cynthia Shanahan is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is also a principal investigator for Project READI and Institute of Education Sciences-funded reading comprehension grant. The focus of her research is on disciplinary literacy.
Leslie S. Rush, M.Ed., Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Education at the University of Wyoming. An experienced English teacher and English teacher educator, Dr. Rush is the co-editor of English Education, the journal of the Conference on English Education. Her research interests include disciplinary literacy, literacy coaching, and adolescent literacy.
Abby Reisman, PhD., is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania who focuses on historical thinking and adolescent literacy. Her most recent inquiries center on teacher preparation around high-leverage practices, such as text-based discussion, and the design and interpretation of Common Core aligned history assessments. With Brad Fogo, she developed the Reading Like a Historian curriculum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWz08mVUIt8), a document-based curriculum that engages students in historical inquiry. She works with districts across the country on helping teachers implement the Reading Like a Historian approach.
Brad Fogo, Ph.D., is Director of Digital Curriculum for the Stanford History Education Group. He also works as a clinical research associate for history education at the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. A public school history teacher for 9 years, he holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and teacher education from Stanford University.
Dolores Perin, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She directs the Reading Specialist master program, which prepares students for state certification as teachers of literacy. Her research interests include the education of struggling readers and writers through the lifespan. Dr. Perin received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and is a licensed psychologist with practical experience with individuals who have reading and writing difficulties.
Neva Cramer, Ph.D., specializes in learning and teaching through the arts. With a background in the performing arts and education, Dr. Cramer has combined her interests and studies to promote literacy and learning through the arts at state, national, and international conferences and through her research and publications. She was recently awarded the Elmore Whitehearst Award for Creative Teaching at Schreiner University, where she is an assistant professor and the director of education.
Desirée Pallais, M.A., is an independent consultant serving the needs of educators who work with bilingual and English language learners. Ms. Pallais formerly worked at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and provided online supports for teachers. In her native Nicaragua, she founded and directed an innovative school; taught college; and supported national initiatives in curriculum, training, and evaluation. Currently, she assists reading reform efforts in Latin America.
Pamela Bell, Ph.D., has over 40 years of experience in special education and in national, state, and regional school improvement initiatives. Dr. Bell directs the Response to Intervention Institute at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in preventing learning difficulties through effective response to intervention implementation and in improving educational outcomes for youth in foster care.
Hannah R. Gerber, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Special Populations at Sam Houston State University. Her scholarship focuses on the ecologies and pedagogies afforded through video-gaming practices among adolescents. She is the author of forthcoming books Game Night at the Library (Gerber & Abrams, VOYA Press) and Qualitative Methods for Researching Online Learning (Gerber, Abrams, Curwood, & Magnifico, Sage) and the edited volume Building Literate Connections Through Video Games and Virtual Environments: Practical Ideas and Connections (Gerber & Abrams, Sense Publishers). She is the founding co-editor of the Sense book series Gaming Ecologies and Pedagogies.
Jane M. Hunt, Ed.D., is a clinical assistant professor in the Teaching, Learning and Leading with Schools and Communities Teacher Preparation Program at Loyola University, Chicago. She has over 30 years of experience in education, including teaching in elementary and middle school classrooms, serving as a reading specialist and consultant, and working with teacher candidates and school partners as a university professor. Dr. Hunt's research and teaching focuses on preparing literacy teachers to enter the field with the knowledge, skills, and commitment required to be able to meet the needs of all learners, primarily those in at-risk populations.
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Table of Contents
About the Reproducible MaterialAbout the Editor
About the Contributors
Preface
ForewordCarol Jago
Acknowledgments
I Introduction to Literacy Assessment and Instruction, Grades 6–12
- Teaching Literacy and Content
Martha C. Hougen - Social and Emotional Consequences of Reading Disability
Leslie Novosel - Features of Effective Instruction
Jennifer B. Wick Schnakenberg and Martha C. Hougen - Academic Vocabulary Development: Meaningful, Memorable, and Morphological
Susan Ebbers and Martha C. Hougen - Fluency Development for the Older Student
Jan Hasbrouck and Martha C. Hougen - "Now It Makes Sense!": Best Practices for Reading Comprehension
Stephen Ciullo and Colleen Reutebuch - Learning to Write and Writing to Learn
Joan Sedita - Understanding the New Demands for Text Complexity in American Secondary Schools
Elfrieda H. Hiebert
- The What and Why of Disciplinary Literacy
Cynthia Shanahan and Timothy Shanahan - Disciplinary Literacy in English/Language Arts Classes
Leslie S. Rush - Teaching Disciplinary Literacy in History Classes
Abby Reisman and Bradley Fogo - Teaching Students to Read and Write in Science
Dolores Perin - Reading and Writing as a Mathematician
Brian R. Bryant and Diane Pedrotty Bryant - Literacy in the Arts
Neva Cramer
- Teaching Adolescent English Language Learners
Desiree Pallais - Response to Intervention and Multi-tiered Systems for Support in Secondary Schools
Pamela Bel - Microblogging: An Example of Using Technology to Increase Engagement and Achievement
Hannah R. Gerber - Current Laws, Policies, and Initiatives
Martha C. Hougen, Susan Smartt, and Jane Hunt - Ten Tips for Becoming an Effective Teacher
Martha C. Hougen
Appendix B Helpful Web Sites
Appendix C Sample Lesson Plans and Instructional Tools
Appendix D Glossary
Index