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A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit was written for reading tutors. This includes parents, grandparents, classroom tutors, student teachers and any other valuable soul listening to a child read.
The book details how to administer an informal reading inventory (IRI) – how to listen to a student read while recording any erroneous habits. Forms are included for recording and categorizing these errors for shared documentation.
The following causes and remedies of reading errors addressed are insertions and omissions, substitutions, reversals, regressions, as well as reading paces.
The progress of various students with their specific reading problems are illustrated. For instance, Anna is a prolific reader – adds words to embellish her stories. Jax omits words, Skyler substitutes words for any unfamiliar word, Juan has a reversal problem, and Drew repeats lines of print frequently. A code is supplied for recording these erroneous habits.
Included are stories usurped from McGraw Hill’s Reading for Concepts series for grade levels 1.9 through 6.4. Emphasis is placed on the quality of comprehension. The type of comprehensive questions includes factual detail versus inference, identifying work in context, verification, cause and effect, concept recognition, and meaning of the whole story.
With a combined score of the reading errors and any incorrect comprehensive question, the tutor can determine if the student is reading at the independent, instructional, or frustration level. This is extremely valuable and accurate information they can pass on to the teacher.
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