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

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Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives

Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a detailed discussion of the nature and causes of reading difficulties, which will help develop the knowledge and confidence needed to accurately assess why a student is struggling. Readers will learn a framework for organizing testing results from current assessment batteries such as the WJ-IV, KTEA-3, and CTOPP-2. Case studies illustrate each of the concepts covered. A thorough discussion is provided on the assessment of phonics skills, phonological awareness, word recognition, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Formatted for easy reading as well as quick reference, the text includes bullet points, icons, callout boxes, and other design elements to call attention to important information.

Although a substantial amount of research has shown that most reading difficulties can be prevented or corrected, standard reading remediation efforts have proven largely ineffective. School psychologists are routinely called upon to evaluate students with reading difficulties and to make recommendations to address such difficulties. This book provides an overview of the best assessment and intervention techniques, backed by the most current research findings.

  • Bridge the gap between research and practice
  • Accurately assess the reason(s) why a student struggles in reading
  • Improve reading skills using the most highly effective evidence-based techniques

Reading may well be the most important thing students are taught during their school careers. It is a skill they will use every day of their lives; one that will dictate, in part, later life success. Struggling students need help now, and Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties shows how to get these students on track.

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    Essentials of Psychological Assessment
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"Th[is is] literally the best book ever written in our field."
-Dr. Maria Murray, Associate Professor of Literacy, State University of NY at Oswego

"David Kilpatrick's book, one of Wiley's Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, is much more than a synthesis of test reviews, summaries of intervention research, illustrative case studies, and recommendations for reading and literacy interventions. While such content is pro forma in a guide for school psychologists, reading specialists, and educators, this book offers provocative new insights into the nature of reading development, reading difficulties, and effective instruction that deserve wide discussion and application in the field...[This book] represents one of the most potent linkages between science and educational practice available to us now. "
-Dr. Louisa Moats, EdD, review from International Dyslexia Association's Perspectives on Language and Literacy, Summer 2016, p. 51-52.

"[Kilpatrick's] book is highly recommended for all school psychologist practitioners. It provides a comprehensive foundation in the research on the development of reading skills as well as an in-depth analysis of how to approach assessment and intervention. Understanding what the research says about how and what to instruct is crucial for school psychologists who are working in a multitiered system of support in order to be able to support teachers in choosing effective instruction at the classroom level and beyond.
-Lynne O. Thies, PhD, NCSP, review from Communiqué he Newsletter of the National Association of School Psychologists, Vol, 45, Issue 2, 2016.

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  • Provides step-by-step guidelines for organizing an assessment, selecting appropriate instruments, and interpreting results
  • Expert advice on formulating interventions and educational programming
  • Conveniently formatted for rapid reference

Effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties offers school psychologists, reading specialists, and educators a practical and accessible guide to the most relevant research, information, and strategies available for understanding, assessing, and intervening with students who present with reading difficulties.

This essential resource draws on the author's Intervention Oriented Assessment, which determines why a student struggles with reading. The author's assessment technique aligns with other well-established assessments and current knowledge about the component skills needed for success in reading. The book also explores how to incorporate the most recent research on word recognition into practice in order to guide curricular decisions, evaluation practices, and intervention approaches. Designed for easy reading as well as quick reference, the text includes case studies that illustrate key concepts, callout boxes, and other design elements to call attention to important information.

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties offers

  • Strategies for accurately assessing the reason(s) why a student struggles with reading
  • Techniques for improving reading skills that are highly effective and evidence-based
  • Guidelines for interpreting and using the reading components in assessment batteries
  • Online supplemental tools and resources

Students need help now, and Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties shows how to get these students on track.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (August 28, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118845242
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118845240
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.01 x 8.5 inches
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Muso
5.0 out of 5 stars Wealth of information
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023
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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.
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Bonnie Dasher
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024
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This book was purchased for a class I am taking. Very informative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vital Reading for Reading Specialists
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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.
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Jeanne K Witt
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books you can read as an educator
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2022
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A book all school psychologists should own...and place front and center in their reference materials
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2016
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Thank you, Dr. Kilpatrick! This text is the best I've read in many years as related to my professional practice. It's wonderfully applicable to school psychologists, which makes sense given his many years as a practitioner. Although I believe it would be a great text specifically to use for graduate-level training of school psychologists in reading theory and assessment, it certainly would help generally with training of educators and parents as well. (They might simply choose to skim over the information about some of the standardized phonological and achievement tests commonly administered by school psychologists.) The author clearly has taken an extensive amount of time to pore over research that most of us would never have had the time or intense drive to look into. What's great to me is how he conveys these findings in clear language. His "simple view" of reading strips away some of the jargony, confusing terms that other representations of reading process include. I'm always on the lookout for parsimony in my practice, and I think his ideas (and those substantiated by the amply-cited research on reading) will more effectively and simply capture what we need to know than other models. Although sharing the neuroscientific depictions of reading process may make you feel smarter in conversation, Kilpatrick nails what will make you feel competent in serving students.
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Ms J Carlsson
5.0 out of 5 stars A thorough review of reading research that matters!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2021
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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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Stephen Truch
5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ!
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2016
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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 Truch
Director, The Reading Foundation Clinic, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful!
Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2022
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Teaching reading to support all students
Reviewed in Canada on November 28, 2019
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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.
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