Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties

This book is for general education teachers, special education teachers, reading interventionists, teachers that work with English Learners, and administrators. It covers assessments, reading disabilities, and evidence-based interventions. The content of this book aims to close the gap between reading research and classroom instruction.

• The reading research that isn’t making it into teachers’ hands
• Why current teaching practices don’t help struggling readers
• A framework for understanding and assessing reading skills
• Word recognition and reading comprehension difficulties
• Assessing phonological processing and phonics skills
• Effective ways to prevent reading difficulties