Instructing Students Who Have Literacy Problems

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Long valued for its coverage of both assessment and instructional strategies, this widely popular reading diagnosis text presents a balanced view of literacy instruction, thoroughly examining interventions for students having difficulties with word study and reading comprehension. Instructing Students Who Have Literacy Problems, 7/e incorporates chapters on both formal and informal assessment with instructional interventions, allowing instructors to use this versatile text for one inclusive course or for two separate courses on diagnosis and instruction. Student case studies, as well as vignettes of teachers in action, illustrate real-world applications based on extensive research and the theoretical foundations of reading intervention. The new edition is available as an enhanced eBook, includes suggestions for using technology to teach struggling readers, addresses the Common Core State Standards, and includes numerous other features that establish the text as an influential and invaluable resource in the fields of reading assessment, diagnosis, and remediation. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video.

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Sandra McCormick is a Professor Emerita and former Director of the Reading Clinic at the Ohio State University.  She is an author of six previous editions of this popular text, the graduate-level textbook, Remedial and Clinical Reading Instruction (Merrill), and numerous articles on delayed readers published in Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Language Arts, and other journals.  Dr. McCormick has served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was coeditor, with Jerry Zutell, of the National Reading Conference Yearbook.

Jerry Zutell is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Reading Clinic at the Ohio State University.  He is a noted researcher and writer about oral reading fluency, spelling development, and related instructional practices.  He is the developer of the Directed Thinking Spelling Activity (DSTA), an innovative student-active cycle of word study instruction, and the Theme-Context-Roots-Reference-Review (TC3R) model of vocabulary instruction.  Dr. Zutell is a senior author of Spell It –Write! (Zaner-Bloser, 1998), coauthor of Essential Strategies for Word Study (Scholastic, 2010), and author of the vocabulary series, Word Wisdom (Zaner-Bloser, 2005, 2013). Dr. Zutell was coeditor, with Sandra McCormick, of the National Reading Conference Yearbook.