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How Do I Find a Book To Read? Middle and High School Students Use a Rubric for Self-Selecting Material for Independent Reading.
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Schirmer, Barbara R.; Lockman, Alison Schirmer – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2001
This article offers a strategy for helping students to choose material they can read during sustained silent reading periods in school and independently at home. The rubric considers the following readability factors: vocabulary, sentence complexity, topic and concepts, clarity of ideas, level of abstraction, organization, design and format,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Reading, Reading Difficulties
The Early Detection of Reading Difficulties. Third Edition.
Clay, Marie M. – 1985
Intended for teachers and administrators, this book examines systematic observation of reading behaviors and reading recovery procedures to help children with reading problems. Part one deals with systematic observation, beginning with a discussion of the reading process and reading programs. Following that, it describes the use of the diagnostic…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Identification, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading
Independent Reading Materials for the Two-Year College Reading Program.
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Muller, Al; Muller, Dorothy – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
Advocates using the adolescent novel as a source of independent reading material in the two-year college reading program with adults with low reading skills. Includes an annotated bibliography of 23 appropriate novels available in paperback. (MKM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, College Students, High Interest Low Vocabulary Books, Independent Reading