Classroom Activities for Correcting Specific Reading Problems - by Stephen A Pavlak (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For all reading teachers and specialists, grades K-12, this resource provides over 230 tested, easy-to-use exercises, games, and activities to correct individual reading skills deficiencies in the areas of phonic analysis, structural analysis, comprehension and oral reading skills ... plus a reproducible "Individual Pupil Checklist of Reading Skills " for easy recordkeeping.

From the Back Cover

This resource provides a store of tested, easy-to-use exercises, games, and activities to help reading specialists and classroom teachers correct students' individual reading skill dificiencies at the primary, intermediate, and upper levels.

It includes 234 sequentially organized activities in the basic skill areas of phonic analysis, structural analysis, comprehension, and oral reading, as well as a special selection of activities in the area of survival reading skills that will be especially useful with readers in the intermediate and upper grades.

Also included is a reproducible "Individual Pupil checklist of Reading Skills" which lists the skill as they are usually encountered in the reading skills continuum and can be used to keep a record of each child's reading skill needs..

Each corrective game or activity is keyed to the Checklist and gives you all of the details and directions necessary for its successful use:

Name a distinct descriptive title
Purpose the specific skill/subskill reinforced
Construction procedure for preparing any special item required
Players number of participants
Materials a complete list of materials needed
Directions directions for carrying out the activity or playing the game

Many of the activities also provide illustrations to supplement the construction procedures. The survival reading activities include complete answer keys, and many of them can be set on student worksheet pages for independent use.

You'll find a diversity of materials for correcting specific problems in each skill area, including 41 letter and letter sound recognition activities...52 consonant and vowel recognition activities...35 structural analysis and syllabication skills activities...25 vocabulary and lterial comprehension activities...33 interpretive comprehension and critical reading skills...18 oral reading activities...and 28 survival reading skills activities.

Note A series of reproducible informal tests for evaluating each sjill on the "Individual Pupil Checklist of Reading Skills" are presented in Dr. Pavlak's companion volume, Informal Tests for Diagnosing Specific Reading Problems, also available from the publisher.

About the Author

Stephen A. Pavlak, Ph.D., has taught and supervised reading on both the elementary and secondary levels. As a reading supervisor, he organized a complete diagnostic and remedial reading program in his own school district.
Since 1971, Dr. Pavlak has been on the faculty of the California University of Pennsylvania, where he presently serves as chairperson of the Elementary Education Department and teaches in the Reading Program. He also serves as a consultant to public and private schools on the development of reading programs and has participated in many reading and language arts programs on the local, state, and national levels.
Dr. Pavlak earned his M.Ed. degrees in Elementary Education and Reading from the California University and his Ph.D. with a major in reading from the University of Pittsburgh.