Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions / Edition 1

by Susan Smartt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598570960
Publisher:	Brookes Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan M. Smartt, Ph.D. As a senior research associate at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Smartt engaged in research, writing, and teaching focused on improving teacher preparation in reading. Previously, she was a national literacy consultant with state departments, teacher preparation programs, and local school districts. Her work focused on facilitating school reform, implementing, reading intervention for low-performing schools, using data to inform practice, developing Response to Intervention initiatives, and implementing scientifically based literacy programs.

Dr. Smartt owned and directed a reading clinic for more than 20 years in which she provided comprehensive psychoeducational assessments, dyslexia evaluations, and tutoring services. She has been a classroom teacher, a reading coach, a reading specialist, and a principal. She was an early contributor to the development of LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) (Moats & Tolman, 2017) and past president of the Tennessee branch of the International Dyslexia Association. Her publications include journal articles, edited volumes, and books on research-based reading intervention and policy initiatives, including Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions (Smartt & Glaser, 2010). Currently, Dr. Smartt tutors and provides advocacy services for students with dyslexia.

Deborah M. Glaser, Ed.D., is a national education consultant, trainer, and author based in Boise, Idaho.

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

Editorial Reviews

"This book includes practical tools and activities that have a strong research base. Teachers will find valuable resources and activities to help them connect their assessment data with the most effective teaching strategies."

Diane Haager

"Describes a range of measures for capturing what students know and can do, and a range of activities for what to do when students do not progress as well as expected."

University of California in Riverside - Rollanda E. O'Connor

"A variety of critical tools needed to perform reliable assessments and plan differentiated small group instruction based on the data collected . . . I highly recommend this book as a wonderful resource and 'tool kit' every classroom should be equipped with."

K-12 Elementary Education & Reading Specialist - Jenny Fisk

"Very practical . . . Every school seeking answers to how to help every student become a successful reader will find this book to be a valuable resource."

Gibson Hasbrouck & Associates, Wellesley, MA - Jan Hasbrouck

"A cogent, in-depth guide for teaching not only the major components of reading but also their essential connections for real world classroom instruction grounded in rigorous assessment of students' progress."

Editor of Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills - Judith R. Birsh

"An excellent example for redirecting attention to the 'intervention' in Response to Intervention."

Professor of Educational Psychology, Director of University of Washington Brain Education and Technology--Education Site - Virginia W. Berninger

"A powerful gathering recommended for any educator's library"

The Midwest Book Review - California Bookwatch

"An excellent resource . . . Teachers will find this book very valuable in helping children become better readers."

Professor of Literacy, ESL, and Educational Psychology; Editor, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, T - R. Malatesha Joshi

"This timely resource fills the gap between assessment and reading interventions; it's filled with essential information for all reading and elementary teachers."

University of Arizona - Nancy Mather

"Lives up to its title and provides the reader with the 'next steps' needed to provide effective literacy instruction to students who require differentiated instruction."

H.E. Hartfelder/Southland Corp Regents Chair and Executive Director, Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, Uni - Sharon Vaughn