Reading Assessment for Diagnostic-Prescriptive Teaching - Hardcover

"Tony Manzo is a very visible and respected researcher and scholar in education. Sometimes spoken of as ""the person who discovered the 'cure' for comprehension deficits,"" Manzo pioneered the concepts of ""mental modeling"" and ""reciprocal teaching""- two of the most generative and enduring ideas in pedagogy in the 20th century. He has written several books and many juried articles. Tony has also created several teacher-friendly instruments to aid in the assessment of thinking, reader styles, and social-emotional development. In 1993 he was granted the International Reading Association's Wm. S. Gray Citation of Merit, its highest award for lifetime creative research and problem-solving in the field."

Anthony and Ula Manzo (both California State U., Fullerton) and Albee (Northwest Missouri State U.) provide teacher trainees, practicing teachers and reading specialists with a diagnostic-prescriptive model for classroom and individual assessment of struggling readers. The second edition features new coverage of assessment and instruction for emerg