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

Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students. This is an excellent handbook both for the specialist teacher and the mainstream class teacher who wish to help students who have a reading disability. The author Wilma Miller outlines for us the nature of reading disabilities and how best we can diagnose those disabilties. In the chapters of the book she goes on to provide us with ready to use strategies and activities for correcting disabilities in word-identification and comprehension. The book is practical and most useful. I would strongly recommend it to all interested in helping students with reading disabilities.

This book may be large; still, it is filled with resources galore! The chapters speak for themselves and are entitled; What are Reading Disabilities?, General Guidelines and Materials for Diagnosing Reading Disabilities, Ready-To-Use Materials for Diagnosing Disabilities in the Word-Identification Techniques, Ready-To-Use Materials for Diagnosing Disabilities in Comprehension and basic Study Skills, Ready-To-Use Strategies and Activities for Correcting Disabilities in Word-Identification Techniques, and Ready-To-Use Strategies and Activities for Correcting Disabilities in Comprehension and Basic Study Skills.Each of the above chapters are filled with wonderful ready to use assessments and remediations. Some of my favorite goodies in the book include; Emergent Literacy Behavioral Checklist, Primary Checklist For Teacher Observation of a Child's Reading Skills, the explanation of Running Records, the Graded Word Lists, the tests for Assessing Sight-Word Recognition in Context, and the games included for teaching different reading skills. I use a variety of the many tests in this book as a pre-assessment at the start of the year and a post assessment at the end of the year. The book was well worth the money for me and is used often in my K-3 Resource Room.

An excellent book, especially for a beginning special educator or elem. teacher. A main weakness is that it is voluminous and spiral bound -- heavy but easily ripped! I chose it one semester as required text for a reading methods class I teach to sp. ed. teacher candidates and it is so huge that I told them to bring it to class only on identified weeks. For a professional library, it contains a wealth of all kinds of information on the reading process, assessment & remediation.