Miscues Not Mistakes: Reading Assessment in the Classroom

In this substantive, practical guide, Ruth Davenport presents essentially a miscue analysis workshop in a book-a lucid, teacher-friendly account of the whys and hows of the topic. Davenport demonstrates that you can do miscue analysis every day with every student reading any book through the use of an Over the Shoulder Procedure. You will not only be able to interpret what you hear when you listen-really listen-to readers; you’ll realise that changes in the text are miscues, not mistakes, that tell you much about the reader’s use of language and processing of written text. Davenport lays the foundation for understanding her methods with a thorough description of the reading process from a transactive sociopsycholinguistic perspective. She then offers practical applications of these methods using reproducibles, examples, and explanatory artwork.