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Series Preface xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
One Introduction 1
The Unfair Race 1
The Importance of Reading 2
The Gap Between Reading Research and Classroom Practice 4
The Unfortunate Reality About Reading Research: Nobody Knows About It! 4
Why Is There a Gap Between Research and Classroom Practice? 6
The Powerful Research Results We Have Been Missing 11
Acknowledging and Responding to the Gap Between Research and Practice 14
Summary 20
Two How We Teach Reading and Why It Does Not Work With Struggling Readers 23
A Very Brief History of Reading Instruction 24
Why Our Current Approaches to Reading Instruction Are Ineffective With Struggling Readers 26
The Visual Memory Hypothesis of Word Reading 30
The Three Cueing Systems Model of Reading 35
The Phonics Approach to Reading 41
Summary 42
Three A Practical Framework for Understanding and Assessing Reading Skills 46
The Simple View of Reading 46
Types of Reading Difficulties/Disabilities 54
The Components of Reading 58
The Components of Word-Level Reading 60
The Components of Linguistic Comprehension 73
Summary 77
Four Understanding Word Recognition Difficulties 80
The Importance of This Chapter 80
Introducing Orthographic Mapping 81
How Skilled Word Reading Develops 83
The Early Stages of the Reading Process 91
Learning to Read Irregular Words 104
The Research on Orthographic Mapping 109
How the Phonological-Core Deficit Hinders Reading Development 114
Word-Reading Fluency and Orthographic Mapping 121
Students Whose Native Language Is Not English 125
Answers to the Questions Posed About Reading Difficulties 127
Summary 129
Five Understanding Reading Comprehension Difficulties 133
Specific Reading Comprehension Impairment 134
What Is Required for Skilled Reading Comprehension? 135
Reader Abilities 136
Text Factors 143
Task Factors 144
Students Whose First Language Is Not English 144
Summary 145
Six Assessing Phonological Processing Skills 149
An Introduction to Intervention-Oriented Assessment of Reading 149
Issues in Assessing Phonological Skills 154
Phonological Awareness Assessment 165
Phonological Blending Assessment 170
The Rationale for Assessing Rapid Automatized Naming and Working Memory 172
Summary 179
Seven Assessing Phonics Skills 182
Orthographic Knowledge 183
Assessing Phonics Skills 187
Summary 196
Eight Assessing Word Identification and Reading Fluency 199
The Assessment of Word-Reading Skills 199
Untangling the Confound Between Word Recognition and Word Identification 202
Word Identification Subtests 208
The Assessment of Word-Reading Fluency 212
Types of Fluency Tasks 214
Summary 219
Nine Assessing Reading Comprehension and Related Skills 222
Reading Comprehension Assessment 223
Tests of Reading Comprehension 231
Tests of Listening Comprehension 233
Assessment of Skills That Contribute to Reading Comprehension and Listening Comprehension 235
Summary 244
Ten Effective Approaches for Preventing Reading Difficulties 247
Prevention: Removing the Hurdles Before the Race Begins 247
Experimental Support for Phonological Awareness Instruction 253
Experimental Support for Explicit and Systematic Letter-Sound Instruction 265
Practical Considerations Regarding Teaching Letter-Sound Skills and Phonics 269
The Centrality of Phonology in Word Reading 275
Phonological Awareness Training Programs 276
Preventing Literacy-Related Language Difficulties 280
Summary 283
Eleven Effective Approaches for Overcoming or
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Essentials of assessing, preventing, and overcoming reading difficulties by David A. Kilpatrick. ISBN 9781118845400. Published by John Wiley & Sons in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.