This is a comprehensive reference guide for teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals working or living with children who are both deaf and blind. It provides day-to-day guidance and suggestions about techniques and methods for assessing children with multi-sensory deprivation, and for devising programs to help them cope.
Cast lightly is the third book of entertaining fishing tales by New Zealand angler John McInnes. Journey with him along rivers and streams, then around the odd lake - places typical of so many waters where brown trout are found. These stories tell how trout live and how to catch them. Yet there is no instruction. Information and discovery is hidden in the narratives. There is fishing at dawn, fishing at the river's edge, fishing in the headwaters, and even, as a short break from New Zealand, a little fishing in Scottish lochs. A collection of stories for all who fish and many who don't, Cast Lightly offers an inviting escape, whether the reader is marooned in the central business district or is reading in bed after a day on the river.
An addition to the teacher's repertoire of silent reading tests is the formal cloze procedure. This test requires the reader to replace exactly individual words deleted from a reading passage. It serves to identify those students who are not reading at an expected level, but it does not suggest why this is so. However, with modifications to both the deletion and evaluation procedures a cloze technique can be used as a diagnostic tool to assess students' reading behaviours. The modified cloze procedure is developed from this premise. It yields valuable information about students' reading strengths and weaknesses. It employs silent reading and can be administered to groups of students. The analysis entails qualifying one-word responses. It is considerably less time-consuming than oral reading assessments. Through its use teachers may acquire further insight into the reading process and thereby gain expertise in assessing reading development. An overview of formal cloze procedure is presented in section 1 of this booklet. The modified cloze procedure is explained in detail in section 2. Section 3 contains 16 modified cloze passages for classroom use. In order to increase the practical value of this booklet, it has been written as a set of instructions addressed directly to the teacher. (Author/PN)
Toronto, Ont. : Ministry of Education : Ministry of Colleges and Universities : Ontario Government Bookstore, Publication Centre
Published Date
ISBN 10
0774378018
ISBN 13
9780774378017
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