Andrew P. Johnson 
Designing Meaning-Based Interventions for Struggling Readers 

This highly practical book helps K–8 teachers implement effective reading interventions that support meaningful comprehension and engage students with interesting, age-appropriate texts. Andrew P. Johnson presents a range of strategies for addressing difficulties in the core areas of word identification, fluency, and comprehension. Packed with illustrative figures, the book provides guidance and tools for assessing reading problems, combining and adapting interventions for particular students, planning writing activities to enhance reading, aligning efforts within a response-to-intervention framework, and designing individualized education programs. Informed by current research, Johnson candidly targets ‘educational malpractice” and helps readers puzzle through the controversies surrounding dyslexia diagnoses and special education decision making.

Daftar Isi

Introduction

I. Background Information

1. Instruction and Interventions

2. Educational Research and Theoretical Models

3. Understanding the Reading Process

4. Coming to a Common Understanding

II. Elements of a Meaning-Based Intervention for Reading

5. How a Meaning-Based Intervention for Reading Works

6. Language Experience Activities

7. Word Work

8. Sight Words and Scope and Sequence Carts

9. Word Identification Strategies

10. Cloze and Maze Activities: Semantic Cueing

11. Writing for Reading

12. Fluency

13. Comprehension

14. Reading Practice (More, Please)

III. Diagnosing, Assessing, and Monitoring Progress

15. Standardized Tests

16. Diagnosing the Problem

17. Progress Monitoring

IV. Individualized Education Programs

18. Individualized Education Programs for Reading

19. Peer-Reviewed Research

V. Designing Reading Interventions

20. Response-to-Intervention Particulars

21. Scientifically Based Research

22. When the Gold Standard Is Un-Golden: A Review of Torgesen et al. (2009)

23. Evaluating Research

24. Students with Dyslexia

VI. Issues in Special Education

25. Problems in the Special Education World

Epilogue

References

Index

Tentang Penulis

Andrew P. Johnson, Ph D, is Professor of Literacy Instruction and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He specializes in literacy instruction for students with intellectual and learning disabilities, response to intervention for reading and writing, strategies for the inclusive classroom, and advanced pedagogy. Prior to his university career, he taught in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms for 9 years. Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous academic articles, book chapters, and books related to literacy and learning, and hosts a podcast,
The Reading Instruction Show.