For undergraduate/graduate courses in Reading Methods, and Reading/Literacy Tutoring.

This text provides a solid pool of ideas gathered to offer a wide range of strategies that effectively assist struggling readers and writers. Unique to this text is the way it begins with assessment tools encouraging teachers to identify how and why students are struggling with literacy tasks and then offers a variety of effective intervention strategies to help teachers help students in word identification, comprehension, and fluency, and motivation. Each strategy is formatted consistently with step-by-step directions that detail how it should be implemented.