Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students [Spiral-bound]

Wilma H. Miller Ed.D. (Author)

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Publication Date: October 15, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0876282494 | ISBN-13: 978-0876282496

This unique handbook gives reading and learning disability teachers one of the most comprehensive and practical resources available today for diagnosing and remediating all types of reading disabilities in elementary and middle school students. Included are easy-to-follow explanations of the various causes of reading disabilities and over 100 reproducible assessment devices, corrective activity sheets, and other aids. And all of this material is printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying of test and activity pages as many times as needed for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class!

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This unique handbook gives reading and learning disability teachers one of the most comprehensive and practical resources available today for diagnosing and remediating all types of reading disabilities in elementary and middle school students.?

Included are easy-to-follow explanations of the various courses of reading disabilities and over 100 reproducible assessment devices, corrective activity sheets, and other aids. And all of this material is printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying of test and activity pages as many times as needed for use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class!

Here are just a few of the special features you'll find in the Handbook:

• case studies of actual children showing how reading problems are caused by different kinds of factors
• scores of ready-to-use assessment devices to help you accurately identify a child's specific reading weaknesses
• a complete Individual Reading Inventory for determining a student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels
• step-by-step directions for using oral reading miscue analysis effectively
• reproducible activity sheets for improving students' ability in visual perception, letter identification, sight word recognition, graphophonic analysis, structural analysis, semantic analysis, and reading comprehension
• a description of the contemporary Reading Recovery Program which is being used with at-risk children
• specific strategies for use with learning handicapped children
• appendices listing publishers/distributors of actual computer software and materials for improving competency in word identification and comprehension skills.

In short, Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook is brimming with ready-to-use, classroom-tested strategies and materials for working with reading disabled children. It will be an invaluable, time-saving resource for all teachers in the effort to help each child achieve his/her optimal potential in reading.

About the Author

Wilma H. Miller, Ed.D., is currently Professor of Education at Illinois State University in Normal, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate students in reading for 25 years. Prior to that she was an elementary school teacher in Illinois and Arizona.
Dr. Miller has published nearly 200 journal articles dealing with various aspects of reading such as The Reading Teacher, Elementary English and Reading Horizons. She has also authored 17 books in the field, including Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook (1997) and Ready-to-Use Activities and Materials for Improving Content Reading Skills (2000), Reading Teacher's Complete Diagnosis and Correction Manual (1988), and Reading Comprehension Activities Kit, (1990), published by The Center for Applied Research in Education.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 406 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (October 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876282494
• ISBN-13: 978-0876282496
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,160,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A complete book on how to assess and help students, August 2, 1998

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This review is from: Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students (Paperback)

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.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reading Resources Galore!, August 13, 2000

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Colleen D. Gallagher "teachingheart net" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students (Spiral-bound)

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource, May 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students (Paperback)

Although this is a great resource it is a bit bulky. Even so, I wouldn't want less material. I appreciate the reproducible sheets so much. I don't have a lot to say that others haven't already said. I do want to recommend another set of books to use directly with the children. It is four Dolch sight word books by Betsy B. Lee. These don't look that much like little kid books and they are even used in middle school and the lower grades. Look up the author's name at amazon.