Rita's Educational Literacy Library
Educational Literacy Library
Miscue analysis may be the single best tool for assessing readers' difficulties. With Reading Conversations, you can take this tool to a new level, moving beyond diagnosis and into developmental strategies that involve not only teacher-student explorations of how students make meaning with texts, but also peer-led discussions.
In retrospective miscue analysis (RMA) you work directly with students, engaging them in conversations about their reading miscues. RMA sessions achieve three important goals: helping you understand what readers are thinking as they read. Buy It Now!
Classroom Research for Teachers
Over 100 teachers have used this small guide to figure out how to manage classroom scenarios that just weren't working. This book takes you through 10 easy steps for conducting practical classroom research that fits right into the busy day of real teachers. You'll be surprised at the ideas and answers to your questions that the data you collect from ordinary student work reveals. Buy It Now
Building Classroom Reading Communities
My using retrospective miscue analysis, teachers can help students improve reading comprehension and fluency. This book emphasizes student strengths and gives students the tools they need to reflect on their reading and become better readers." -- Bridget Stegman, Title I Reading/Instructional Coach.
"The authors open the windows to a new perspective on reading by merging research-based Retrospective Miscue Analysis with adapted Socratic Circle discussions, thus empowering all elementary readers to collaboratively identify and verbalize reading strategies, individually experience ownership and control as readers, and effectively build both literacy and language confidence and competence within a united classroom community." -- Marjorie R. Hancock, Professor Emerita of Elementary Education.
"The authors not only clarify the details of examining conversations about reading miscues and retellings, they take you inside Seeger's third-grade classroom. Here you see firsthand how RMA works, from demystifying the coding process for miscues to watching each member of her class benefit from learning in Socratic Circles. Real classroom examples and vignettes, not to mention the variety of reproducible resources included, show how RMA and Socratic Circles engage students at every level of development in critical thinking and critical reflection-activities that empower students' reading development and become an essential assessment tool to guide further instruction." -- Kathleen Strickland, Professor of English and Elementary Education. Buy It Now
