Description

Precision Reading: Instructors’ Handbook
Third Edition

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Precision Reading

• Characteristics of Skilled Readers
• Characteristics of Struggling Readers
• Who is Precision Reading for?
• How was Precision Reading Developed?
• Design of Precision Reading
• Why Precision Reading Works

Chapter 2. The Core Strategy

• Introduction
• Student Selection
• Passage Selection
• Passage Formatting
• Passage Reading, Recording, and Graphing
• Word Practice
• Retelling
• Core Strategy Guidelines
• A Few Cautions on Core Strategy Implementation
• Whole Class and Small Group Implementation

Chapter 3. The Support Strategies

• Overview
• Silent Pre-Reading
• Five-Second-Delay Procedure
• Precision Reading of Word Lists
• Vocabulary Association Procedure
• Echo Pre-Reading
• Language Experience Approach
• Additional Sets of Support Strategies
• Vocabulary Development
• Six-Day Plan
• Four-Point Personal Dictionary
• Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
• Other Vocabulary Development Strategies
• Time-On-Task Reading
• Drop Everything and Read
• Book Bags
• Reading Tutors
• Other Time-On-Task Strategies
• Motivation to Read
• Reading Challenges
• Reading Projects
• Support Strategies Guidelines

Chapter 4. The Comprehension Strategies

• Overview
• Retelling
• 3epeat Questioning
• Reciprocal Reading
• Comprehension Strategies Guidelines

Chapter 5. The Comprehension Strategies

• Overview
• Teaching Non-Readers

Chapter 6. Assessment and Program Implementation

• Overview
• Assessment
• Record Keeping
• Best Practices
• Resources

Specifications

Precision Reading: Instructors’ Sourcebook (3rd Edition) with Grades One to Six Passages

Table of Contents

Section 1. Graphs

Introduction

• Passage Graph To 90 Words
• Passage Graph To 160 Words
• Passage Graph 50-190 Words
• Passage Graph 20-300 Words
• Sight Words Graph To 90 Words
• Sight Words Graph To 160 Words
• Sight Words Graph To 190 Words
• Sight Words Graph To 300 Words

Section 2. Core Strategy Record Forms

• Introduction
• Error Words Form
• Long Term Precision Reading Record
• Precision Reading Student Profile

Section 3. Strategy Checklists and Forms

• Introduction
• Core Strategy and Word Practice
• Five-Second-Delay Procedure
• Precision Reading of Word Lists
  – error words form
• Vocabulary Association Procedure
• Echo Pre-Reading
• Language Experience Approach
• Fernald Multisensory Technique
• Six-Day-Plan
  – copy-write-copy from mind study guide
• Four-Point Personal Dictionary
  – four-point personal dictionary templates
• Vocabulary Self-Collection
• DEAR
• Book Bags
  – book bag reading record
• Retelling in the Core Strategy
• Retelling as a Comprehension Strategy
  – retelling prompts
  – retelling questions
  – retelling rating scale
• 3repeat Questioning
  – 3repeat reading comprehension questions
  – 3repeat questions and answers record
• Reciprocal Reading
  – reciprocal reading comprehension strategies

Section 4 Formatted Passages (Grades One to Six Sourcebook)

• Introduction
• Copying Passages
• Organization
• Grade One Passages
  – Run, run, do not walk!
  – I am not an elephant!
  – Airplane down?
• Grade Two Passages
  – I could not sleep
  – First week at school
  – Books
• Grade Three Passages
  – Bears going down to the sea
  – Snapping turtles
  – Pterosaurs
• Grade Four Passages
  – The strangest creature on earth
  – Whale watching
  – Flying frogs and snakes
• Grade Five Passages
  – The first North Americans
  – Volcano
  – Global warming
• Grade Six Passages
  – Taste
  – The brothers Grimm
  – Discovering earth’s oceans

Most Common Words in Children’s Reading and Writing

Bibliography of Resources

Specifications