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Truth About DIBELS What It Is - What It Does By Kenneth S. Goodman. Copyright 2006. Foreword by P. David Pearson To order, click on the publishers website: Heinemann DIBELS is the worst thing to happen to the teaching of reading since the development of flash cards.—P. David PearsonDynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is wildly popular up and down the local and state education hierarchies. It’s easy, quick, and an approved Reading First assessment tool. So what’s not to like? EVERYTHING. In The Truth About DIBELS you’ll find out why teachers, administrators, and reading researchers nationwide are emphatically resisting the insidious influence of DIBELS. Well-known education writers—including P. David Pearson, Robert Tierney, Sandra Wilde, and Maryann Manning—tell you how DIBELS hurts students and teachers and why impairs learning and teaching. They present chapters that:
If DIBELS is creeping into your classroom, school, district, or state—or if it’s already taken over—read The Truth About DIBELS. Then use its accompanying CD, loaded with a complete anti-DIBELS PowerPoint presentation, to show colleagues, policy makers, or parents that when it comes to reading assessment, DIBELS just doesn’t work. |
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DIBELS: What it is and What it does Edited by Ken Goodman. Copyright 2006. To order, click on the publishers website: Vermont Society for the Study of Education, Inc. The book's main contributor and editor is the nationally and internationally renowned reading authority Ken Goodman, Professor Emeritus from the Department of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona. Goodman is past president of the International Reading Association and the National Conference on Language and Literacy. Expertly evoking the DIBELS landscape, Goodman sees it as "a set of silly tests" that "misrepresent pupils" and "demean teachers." However, his ultimate depiction of DIBELS is as the "pedagogy of the absurd."
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What's
Whole in Whole Language 20th Anniversary Edition By Ken Goodman. Copyright 1986, 2005. To order, click on the publishers website: RDR Books With more than 250,000 copies in
print around the world, What's Whole in Whole Language is now back
in print in this updated 20th anniversary edition, which includes a new
afterword by the author.
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Reading
Miscue Inventory From Evaluation to Instruction By Yetta M. Goodman, Dorothy J. Watson, and Carolyn L. Burke Second Edition, Copyright 2005. To order, click on the publishers website: Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc. What Professional Educators Say about Reading Miscue Inventory ... At a time when teachers and
schools are being called upon to document the progress their students are
making in reading and math, I can't think of a better book to put in the
hands of classroom teachers. I use the Reading Miscue Inventory routinely
at the middle school level, particularly when developing plans to support
readers who seam to be struggling. Even when I am not completing a formal
miscue analysis, I listen to readers for the information the RMI has
helped me to value. This authentic assessment
provides substantive data on how readers engage with the reading process
to make meaning; it also illuminates the disconnects in that process when
reading is challenging. unlike most reading assessments that only provide
a label or a "level," the Reading
Miscue Inventory provides teachers with the insights to know how to
help readers better succeed. In this era of high stakes
testing and commercial classroom reading tests, the Reading
Miscue Inventory restores professionalism to teacher assessment and
hope for our nation's readers. This new edition succeeds in making our
most powerful tool for revealing readers' strengths and needs even more
accessible than ever, with clear directions for implementation,
interpretation, and instructional applications. These literacy luminaries
are once again lighting our way!
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Saving
Our Schools The Case for Public Education Saying No To "No Child Left Behind" Edited by Ken Goodman, Yetta Goodman, Patrick Shannon, and Roger Rapoport. Copyright 2004. To order, click on the publishers website: RDR Books A stealth campaign to privatize
American education, George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB)
threatens to close more than 6,000 public schools, pushing dedicated
teachers and disadvantaged children out of our neighborhood schools.
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On
the Revolution of Reading The Selected Writings of Kenneth S. Goodman Edited by Alan D. Flurkey & Jingguo Xu. Copyright 2003. To order, click on the publishers website: Heinemann Like all visionaries, Ken Goodman has had ideas that are truly different, wholly new, and completely unforeseen. And like the work of any "heretic," his model of the reading process has met with its share of controversy. In 1967, he spawned a revolution with his article "Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game." Disputing the view of reading as sequential word recognition, Goodman argued for the understanding of reading as a process of constructing meaning, of making sense of print. Since then, he has continued to publish extensively on the reading process, sharing his insights with teachers who could apply them to their classroom practices. Now, for the first time, the best of Goodman's provocative writings are available in one convenient volume.
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Valuing
Language Study Inquiry Into Language for Elementary and Middle Schools By Yetta M. Goodman. Copyright 2003. To order, click on the publishers website: National Council of Teachers of English Everyday in so many ways,
children are surrounded by language: from the language of home and family,
to the never-ending bombardment of environmental print, to the clash
between school admonitions to use "standard" English and their
peer groups' specialized and invented speech. Why not assume, then, that
students love to think and talk about language as much as teachers do? And
they do, asserts language development researcher and teacher educator
Yetta M. Goodman, if given opportunities to explore language issues and
questions that arise naturally.
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Kidwatching Documenting Children's Literacy Development By Yetta Goodman and Gretchen Owocki. Copyright 2002. To order, click on the publishers website: Heinemann This smart, practical guidebook
shows preschool, kindergarten and primary teachers how to refine their
literacy evaluation practices through careful kidwatching. By observing
and recording children's literacy development, teachers also develop new
understandings of the ways children think and learn.
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Language and Thinking in School, A Whole-Language Curriculum .Kenneth S. Goodman, E. Brooks Smith, Robert Meredith and Yetta M. Goodman, 3rd edition New York: Richard C. Owen, 1987.
What's Whole in Whole Language, Kenneth S. Goodman, Toronto:
Scholastic Lmtd. 1986 and Heinemann, Portsmouth NH,
1986, French Trans. Le
pourquoi et le comment du langage intégré. Toronto: Scholastic Lmtd.
1989, Spanish Translation: Lenguaje Integral, Editorial Venezolana,
Merida Venezuela also El Lenguaje Integral, Aique Grupe,
Argentina,
1990, Japanese edition Kyoku e no atarashi chosen: Eigo ken ni okeri
zentai gengo kyoiku, Tokyo: Ozora Sha,
1997, Portuguese.Introduçåo à
Linguagem Integral Artes Medicas, Sao Paolo;
1998, Chinese Edition
Report Card on Basal Readers, Kenneth S. Goodman, Patrick Shannon, Yvonne Freeman and Sharon Murphy, Katonah, NY: Richard C. Owen, 1988.
The Whole Language Evaluation Book, Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman and Wendy Hood, Portsmouth, NH: Heineman 1989.
Organizing for Whole Language, Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman and Wendy Hood, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991.
The Whole Language Catalog, Kenneth S. Goodman, Lois Bird and Yetta M. Goodman, Santa Rosa, CA. American School Publishers (Sra division,McGraw Hill-Macmillan), 1991.
The Whole Language Catalog: Supplement on Authentic Assessment, Kenneth S. Goodman, Lois Bird and Yetta M. Goodman. Santa Rosa, CA. American School Publishers,SRA div. McGraw Hill Macmillan, 1992.
The Whole Language Catalog: Forms for Authentic Assessment, Kenneth S. Goodman, Lois Bird and Yetta M. Goodman., Santa Rosa, CA: American School Publishers,SRA div. McGraw Hill Macmillan ,1993.
In Defense of Good Teaching, Kenneth S. Goodman (ed.), York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 1998.
Phonics Phacts, Ken Goodman, Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic Canada and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1994.
Basal Readers, A Second Look. Patrick Shannon and Kenneth S. Goodman, Katonah, NY: Richard C. Owen, 1994.
Ken Goodman On Reading, Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic Canada 1996 and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1996.
How Children Construct Literacy,Yetta M. Goodman, (Editor) , Newark DE: International Reading Association, 1991.
Literacy Events in a Community of Young Writers,Yetta M. Goodman & Sandra Wilde, (Eds) New York, Teachers College Press, 1992.
Reading Strategies: Focus on Comprehension,Yetta M. Goodman, Dorothy Watson, & Carolyn Burke, 2nd Edition, New York, Richard C. Owen, 1996.
Retrospective Miscue Analysis: Revaluing Readers and Reading,Yetta M. Goodman & Ann Marek, Katonah NY: Richard C. Owen, 1996.
Whole Language Voices in Teacher Education, Yetta M. Goodman and Kathryn F. Whitmore, (eds.) York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 1996.
Notes from a Kidwatcher: Selected Writings of Yetta M. Goodman, Sandra Wilde (ed.) Portsmouth, NH :Heinemann, 1996.