Description
Book SynopsisMarcia Invernizzi is Director of the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia exploring developmental universals in non-English orthographies. A former English and reading teacher, Marcia works with children experiencing difficulties learning to read and write in intervention programs such as Virginia's Early Intervention Reading Initiative and Book Buddies
Francine Johnston is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches reading, language arts, and children's literature. A former first-grade teacher and reading specialist.
Donald Bear is director of the E. L. Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy where he and preservice, Master's and doctoral students teach and assess children who struggle to learn to read and write. Donald i
Trade Review
Responses from the field… A strength of each chapter is the Notes for the Teacher section that introduces each set of sorts. This reminds teachers about developmental appropriateness and pacing variations based on learner needs. Clearly the gradual release of responsibility model of guided instruction is promoted and reinforced throughout the text. Barbara Pettegrew, Otterbein College Chapter layout is excellent. Format is designed to include anything that might be needed for the lesson, and each takes you step by step through the process being taught, allowing time for students to internalize and firm up the skills and strategies. Susan K. McCloskey, California State University, Fresno
Table of Contents
SORTS FOR EARLY WITHIN WORD PATTERN SPELLERS Sorts 1 - 6 Picture Sorts for Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds Spell Check 1: Assessment for Long Vowel Sounds Sorts 7 - 12 Word Sorts Contrasting Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds and Patterns (CVC and CVCe) Spell Check 2: Assessment for Short- and Long (CVCe)-Vowel Spelling Patterns Sorts 13 - 18 Common Long-Vowel Patterns (CVCe and CVVC) Spell Check 3: Assessing the CVVC Long-Vowel Pattern for A, E, O andU SORTS FOR MIDDLE WITHIN WORD PATTERN SPELLERS Sorts 19 - 24 Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns Spell Check 4: Assessment for Less Common Long-Vowel Patterns Sorts 25 - 30 R-Influeced Vowel Patterns Spell Check 5: Assessment for R-Influenced Vowels SORTS FOR LATE WITHIN WORD SPELLERS Sorts 31 - 35 Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowel Sounds Spell Check 6: Assessment for Diphthongs and Other Ambiguous Vowels Sorts 36 - 42 Beginning and Ending Complex Consonants and Consonant Clusters Spell Check 7: Assessment for Beginning Complex Consonant Clusters Spell Check 8: Assessment for Hard and Soft C and G and Word Endings -CE, -SE, and -VE Spell Check 9: Assessment for Complex Consonant Clusters DGE/GE and TCH/CH Sorts 43 - 44 High-Frequency Words and Contractions Spell Check 10: Assessment for High-Frequency Words Starting with A- and Be- Spell Check 11: Assessment for Contractions Sorts 45 - 46 Inflectional Endings for Plural and Past Tense Spell Check 12: Base Word + Inflection: Plural and Past Tense Endings Sorts 47 - 50 Long Vowel Homophones Appendix
