Reading Instruction and Assessment: Understanding the Ira Standards

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

This book discusses and provides teaching recommendations for the Instructions and Assessment standards of the IRA's Standards for Reading Professionals, Revised, 1998. This is a book like no other in the market. In an eloquent and user-friendly manner, Armbruster and Osborn both well-known in reading instruction explain and elaborate the most recent reading standards published by the International Reading Association (Standards for Reading Professionals, Revised, 1998). These standards are proficiency-based, focused on Knowledge and Beliefs, Instruction and Assessment, and Organizing Literacy Programs. The Instructional and Assessment standards addresed in the book have been translated for prospective and in-service teachers into doable teaching strategies that support the standards.

Author Biography

Bonnie B. Armbruster is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jean H. Osborn is an educational consultant who has served as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for ten years

Table of Contents

About the Authors v
Introduction vi
SECTION ONE Creating a Literate Environment
Literate Environment
1(6)
Personal Response to Literature
7(6)
Integrating Language Arts across Content Areas
13(6)
Technology
19(8)
Parent Involvement
27(5)
SECTION TWO Word Identification, Vocabulary, and Spelling
Cueing Systems
32(7)
Phonics
39(9)
Context
48(5)
Connecting Reading, Writing, and Spelling
53(9)
Vocabulary
62(7)
SECTION THREE Comprehension
Direct Instruction of Comprehension Strategies
69(7)
Questioning Strategies
76(7)
Prior Knowledge
83(7)
Monitoring Comprehension
90(4)
Aspects of Text
94(6)
SECTION FOUR Study Strategies
Multiple Sources
100(4)
Adjusting Reading Rate
104(3)
Time-Management Strategies
107(3)
Organizing and Remembering Information
110(4)
Test-Taking Strategies
114(3)
SECTION FIVE Writing
Writing Process
117(4)
Conventions of Written English
121(5)
SECTION SIX Assessment
Assessment
126(10)
SECTION SEVEN Recommendations
Recommendations
136(10)
Index 146

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