Instructing Students Who Have Literacy Problems

Sandra McCormick, Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University, is the author of five previous editions of this popular text; the graduate-level textbook, Remedial and Clinical Reading Instruction (Merrill); and numerous articles on delayed readers published in Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Language Arts, and other journals. Dr. McCormick has served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was coeditor, with Jerry Zutell, of the National Reading Conference Yearbook.



Jerry Zutell is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Reading Clinic at The Ohio State University. He is a noted researcher and writer about oral reading fluency, spelling development, and related instructional practices. He is the developer of the Directed Thinking Spelling Activity (DSTA), an innovative student-active cycle of word study instruction. Dr. Zutell is a senior author of Spell It -Write! (Zaner-Bloser, 1998), is the author of the vocabulary series, Word Wisdom (Zaner-Bloser, 2005). and is coauthor, with Timothy Rasinski, of Essential Strategies for Word Study: Effective Methods for Improving Decoding, Spelling, and Vocabulary (Scholastic, 2010).