Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties
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Table of Contents

  • Part One: Emergent Literacy Skills
  • 1.      Developing Phonemic Awareness         
  • 2.      Developing Alphabet Knowledge           
  • Part Two: Decoding Skills        
  • 3.      Developing Sight Vocabulary    
  • 4.      Developing Phonics Knowledge
  • 5.      Developing Structural Analysis 
  • 6.      Developing Ability to Use Context Clues
  • 7.     Developing Dictionary Skills      
  • Part Three: Comprehension Skills
  • 8.      Developing Vocabulary Knowledge       
  • 9.      Improving Comprehension
  • Part Four: Fluency And Specific Oral Reading Difficulties      
  • 10.      Developing Reading Fluency    
  • 11.      Improving Poor Pronunciation   
  • 12.      Decreasing Omissions 
  • 13.      Decreasing Repetitions
  • 14.      Decreasing Inversions or Reversals     
  • 15.      Decreasing Insertions  
  • 16.      Decreasing Substitutions         
  • 17.      Decreasing Guessing at Words
  • 18.      Decreasing Word-by-Word Reading     
  • 19.      Limiting Incorrect Phrasing      
  • 20.      Decreasing Voicing, Lip Movements, Finger Pointing, and Head Movements     
  • Part Five: Study Skills And Other Abilities 
  • 21.      Developing Reading Speed
  • 22.      Developing the Ability to Adjust Reading Rate   
  • 23.      Reading at an Appropriate Rate for Comprehending      

About the Author

Ward A. Cockrum has been involved in literacy education for more than 30 years. His teaching experience includes his positions as a reading specialist in a K–4 school, a middle school reading/science teacher, a fifth-grade teacher and a Pre-first-grade teacher. Currently a professor at Northern Arizona University, he directs the Reading Specialist Endorsement Program and teaches a variety of reading education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Cockrum is the co-author, with James Shanker, of the fifth edition of the Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory.

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