Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions (Smartt, Glaser)

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Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction
Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions
By Susan M. Smartt, Ph.D., & Deborah R. Glaser, Ed.D.

"This timely resource fills the gap between assessment and reading interventions; it's filled with essential information for all reading and elementary teachers."—Nancy Mather, Ph.D., University of Arizona

"An excellent example for redirecting attention to the "intervention" in Response to Interventions."—Virginia W. Berninger, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Washington

What happens after a formative literacy assessment like DIBELS, TPRI, FAIR, or AIMSweb? How can educators translate the results into targeted interventions and improved reading outcomes? This reader-friendly teaching guide makes the next steps of literacy instruction clear and easy for K–6 educators. Developed by highly respected experts Smartt and Glaser, this book gives readers a specific breakdown of the indicators on today's most popular reading assessments and matches those items with interventions that make a real difference.

Next STEPS is everything educators want:

designed for use with response to intervention—gives explicit instructions on designing Tier II and Tier III small-group instruction and monitoring student progress
extensively field tested during the nationwide trainings the authors have conducted
organized by the "big five" ideas identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
packed with practice activities directly linked to each big idea
shows teachers how to integrate all five big ideas during instruction, so lessons are well-rounded and comprehensive
based on the latest, most reliable research and best practices
shows educators both how to teach and what to teach to make students better readers

All of the suggested interventions are quick and creative, get real results with minimal planning, use materials most teachers already have, and effectively target the specific "trouble spots" that literacy assessments have identified. And with the classroom vignettes and sample teacher-student dialogues, educators will have adaptable models for their own classroom interactions.

A must for every education professional who wants to do more with the valuable information they get from literacy assessments, this guidebook takes the guesswork out of intervention and helps transform struggling students into skillful readers.

Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions

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ISBN 978-1-59857-096-0
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8.5 x 11 / 256 pages / 2010
$39.95
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Table of Contents

About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

1. Introduction to Next STEPS

II. Steps to Reading Success

2. Teaching Struggling Readers to Read
3. Phoneme Awareness
4. Phonics
5. Fluency
6. Comprehension
7. Vocabulary

III. Weaving It All Together

8. Weaving Elements Together for a Lifetime of Reading

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