Multiple Paths To Literacy: Assessment and Differentiated Instruction for Diverse Learners, K-12

by Joan P. Gipe

Multiple Paths to Literacy approaches reading assessment and learning from a multiple-intelligences perspective. This perspective helps teachers understand students' varied strengths, needs, and learning styles and provides teachers with analytical techniques for helping all students learn more effectively.
The first section of the book provides important foundations for assessment and analytic teaching; the second section offers concrete instructional techniques, including strategies for English learners. New to this edition is a book-specific Companion Website allowing readers to integrate text knowledge with website directives. Margin notes refer the reader to the Companion Website resources.

Genres: Education

453 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

Reviews

[Sarah Beth]

I found this textbook to be extremely dull and a bit hypocritical. Most of the text is about how to make reading and literacy engaging, but the textbook itself was the exact opposite of engaging. I found a few useful tips for the classroom, but overall I really dragged through most of the chapters. I liked the discussion of word clouds and maps, but other than that I can't think of anything particularly noteworthy.

[Buddy Draper]

This was another worthy textbook that I read as part of my master’s program. It covered all the same ground as previous textbooks but was still readable.

[Justin]

For a book on reading assessments and interventions it is very hands-on and full of strategies and ready-to-use forms. I felt that this would've been a book I should've had in my education classes. It comes across as being written by a teacher for a teacher.

[Justin Ferguson]

For a book on reading assessments and interventions it is very hands-on and full of strategies and ready-to-use forms. I felt that this would've been a book I should've had in my education classes. It comes across as being written by a teacher for a teacher.

[Lisa]

Love this book and am using as a basis for a training.

[Rachel]

Excellent resource for ant reading class! Definitely a textbook I will be hanging on too!

[Chelsea]

So boring.

[Paula Boyce]

I think this is a very comprehensive, user-friendly textbook for preparing educators for real world teaching. Gipe and Richards provide lots of strategies, classroom examples, and a plethora of useful resources at the end of each chapter. Teachers--both new to the profession as well as experienced--will find ideas and activities for assessment, instruction, differentiation and the current research behind these best practices. Readers will find everything from beginning literacy instruction to teaching content area reading and writing in this one book. It's well worth the time, effort, and cost. I will be using it in my upcoming foundational class for new teachers.