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Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties, 9th Edition James L. Shanker, Ward Cockrum   Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties is a reading diagnostic and intervention handbook.  Organised around the subskills of reading, the book allows experienced teachers to find assessment resources to document a child's strengths and areas of need and find effective instructional strategies to teach missing skills.    New to this edition is a chapter on developing reading fluency.In addition, each chapter has been reorganised. This reorganisation first presents a definition of the reading skill covered followed by three sections: a section on assessing the skill, a section on teaching the skill, and a section on how the skill might impact English Language Learners.The balance of the text are Assessment Appendices which house every classroom assessment tool that a busy classroom teacher needs to screen or monitor students' literacy progress.Each assessment resource is briefly identified by purpose and offers both the assessment tool for the student and a data collection tool for teachers.     Contents: Preparation and Use of Materials for How to Use This Book Reading Diagnosis Chart Making Your Own Diagnosis Kit from the Appendices Introduction: Important Principles and a Useful Method for Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties Part One: Emergent Literacy Skills Part Two: Decoding Skills Part Three: Fluency and Specific Oral Reading Difficulties Part Four: Comprehension Skills Part Five: Study Skills and Other Abilities Appendices for Locating Reading Difficulties Appendices for Correcting Reading Difficulties Glossary Index   2008, 496 pages, softcover