Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) 1st Edition

I teach middle school special ed. It's quite common to have a student or two in my class who needs basic instruction in phonemic awareness. Kilpatrick's ideas are the best I've found for working with students who need much more than comprehension practice.

I am due to take the ELAR 4-8 exam soon and wanted to learn more about reading difficulties in the classroom and relevant assessment. This is a densely packed book that has summaries and quizzes at the end of chapters to test your understanding of what you’ve read. There are some tables and diagrams included as visual aids. Also, lots of references to research studies which is helpful if you want to follow up particular topics.I am steadily working my way through the book with highlighters and pencil, taking notes in the hope that I can embed some of this wealth of information! A very useful read for any classroom practitioner.

Quick delivery, great condition.This book was purchased for a class I am taking. Very informative.

I am a Reading Specialist in an elementary school. Initially, I purchased this book to have in my office as a reference guide in the event I had a student who was not responding to traditional intervention methods. So the book sat in my office for several months until one day I decided to go through it to find some strategy to help me deal with a boy in Grade 3 who was not responding to any of the methods I used to help him decode words. I turned to a chapter towards the end of the book which dealt with reading difficulties. However, the chapter kept referring to previous chapters dealing with a specific topic. So, I flipped back to the previous chapters and started reading. The long and short of this--I picked up the book and began reading it from the first chapter. It took me a while to get through it because it is VERY extensive and covers each chapter supporting it with LOTS of research. By the time I had completed the first chapter, I couldn't put it down. It is by far THE BEST book I have used in my work. In addition to giving support from the research, the author gives concrete examples used in classrooms with lots of suggested activities. The author covers the full spectrum of reading difficulties (word recognition, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension) and suggests methods and strategies which can be used for each one. I would highly recommend this book to all reading specialists and those who work with struggling students. I have since searched for other books by this author and found them to be just as helpful. Don't hesitate to purchase this book. Well worth the price.

I am a school psychologist and saw David Kilpatrick speak back in 2016. Since then I have followed him and read all his books, including this one and Equipped for Reading. These two books changed my practice in diagnosing and understanding reading disabilities. Some of the information he presents can be very scientific and overwhelming, but if you stick with it, you won't regret it. You will have a new, much more in- depth understanding on learning disabilities - but perhaps more importantly, you will come away with a new understanding on how you teach a child to read - and the best interventions to use if you have a child who struggles with reading. I cannot tell you how many educators/teachers/school psychologists/speech therapists have had "AH HA" moments after reading this book. It is a must read.

Amazing reference. Filled with useful tidbits. Both excellent as a indepth guide and as thorough reference guide. My go to guide, for reading differentiation. Updated on the lastest research into orthographic mapping. The book provides indepth overviews of the most effective reading pedagogy out there and the article resources are superb. The biggest downside of the price is steeper than I would like, and all too often falls outside most teachers budget and the reason for my 1 star deduction.Wiley publishing could you please consider decreasing the cost of this book? Teacher salaries do not allow for such extravagant prices and our children could really stand to benefit from having more evidence based practice in there classrooms. I have donate 4 copies now to teachers who NEED HELP REACHING THIS NATIONS STUDENTS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE❗️Please consider being a strong, sustainable piece of the solution. A lower price range would also mean local bookstores would be able to stock it.If Ms Trump is still looking for books to donate to schools, please try this one! Absolutely no racism just filled with practical, insightful, solid pedagogy. If you want our nation's schools to improve consider donating a copy to a local K-8 school or your districts reading specialist. Even useful for private schools.Peter Wiley, maybe you can get the ball rolling by donating copies to the struggling school in your area. No doubt, you will be able to find the schools in the most need on either Great School or the School Digger website. If not, I would be happy to create a spreadsheet for you free of charge! Teaching students looking to pass the Praxis Reading Specialist exam look no further, here is the best reference book out there.Makes a great gift for student teachers, school/district leadership, reading specialist, and nearly anyone in the teaching field.

This book is full of really useful and insightful information based on research about how reading is acquired and what is necessary for struggling readers to do in order to catch up. Although it does not contain the actual reading intervention programme, it is so rich in information that one can start to look at ones own assessment and interventions and tighten those up, even without the programme. It has a link to the PAST, a phonological assessment which is a useful starting point. It should be a 'must read' for every educational psychologist who are involved in supporting struggling readers as well as specialist teachers and SENCos. It is not a 'light read' as it is research based but the information one gleanes makes it worthwhile reading through and provides a really helpful insight into how reading development takes place and the conditions necessary for it to succeed. A brilliant and eye-opening book!

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This book is a "must read" for all school psychologists, reading specialists and the general teaching population. Dr Kilpatrick has his feet in both the world of reading research (he is an Assistant Professor of Psychology) and in the practical applications of that research for school systems in his role as a school psychologist.His book is a thorough and thoughtful presentation of the latest and best of reading research and its implications for school-based teaching practices. He outlines very clearly, chapter by chapter, the best assessment tools and teaching practices (based on the best research) and how those practices can and should impact reading instruction in the regular classroom as well as for students struggling with the process. His suggestions are all practical and can be used in classroom and small group and one-to-one settings. The publisher also provides online access to Dr. Kilpatrick's Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST) (an informal and valuable instrument which identifies advanced phonological awareness) and a document providing a variety of word study activities designed to improve students' word identification skills.Dr. Kilpatrick appears to be the first to integrate the well-established word learning theories of Linnea Ehri and David Share with the phonological-core deficit hypothesis of reading disabilities. His integration of these three theories, which he calls the "phonological proficiency hypotheses," explains more research data than any of of these three theories does alone. His hypothesis explains why some reading intervention studies yield much stronger results than others. While phonemic segmenting and blending activities are components of almost all reading interventions, the presence of "advanced phonemic awareness" activities, which help develop phonemic proficiency, is often not present at all. Their importance to reading progress is therefore under-researched and not understood as well as it should be. Dr. Kilpatrick shows very clearly that reading interventions that provide advanced phonemic instruction provide the best gains for students compared to interventions providing segmenting and blending only or not at all. As one reads his research summaries and conclusions, the relationship of advanced phonological teaching activities, which lead to greater phonemic proficiency and then to stronger and more fluent word reading, becomes very clear. In my mind, his phonological proficiency hypothesis is an extremely important insight that needs to be explored in greater depth in more studies. However, even at this point, the evidence is sufficiently strong and indicates that reading programs providing advanced phonemic processing teaching activities, should be more widely incorporated in the educational system, both in regular classrooms and for students with reading difficulties.I recommend this book very highly. It is the best summary of reading research I have read to date. His prose is straightforward and his suggestions for teaching activities very practical. This is a book that deserves to be widely read in the educational and reading research community at large.Dr. Stephen TruchDirector, The Reading Foundation Clinic, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

As a retired teacher now tutoring, I am still learning. This book really added to my understanding of the process of helping children become solid readers.

An excellent review and analysis of the practices of teaching and assessing reading development in light of neuroscience. This would be an important reference for every school administrator, reading specialist and teacher. Note I was an early literacy teacher for 5 + years.