Reddit reviews Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print

Well, there are the study guides. They are expensive but lots cheaper than taking the test over and over.

The real issue, it sounds like, is that she has not been well prepared for doing reading intervention. Ask her how many sounds are in the word "car" if she says 3, she needs more phonemic awareness knowledge. She definitely needs to make sure she is teaching with blendable sounds as well. That video is from the University of Florida Literacy Initiative. I would highly recommend following them on facebook as they often post very good, up to date information for teachers regarding effective practices and interventions.

More great books: Strategies that Work, CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook, Words Their Way, Bringing Words to Life and everything else by that author.

Now, this one is much harder, but it changed my life as a teacher. She needs to read this book. It is dense. It is hard. It covers EVERYTHING we know about how people acquire and utilize the ability to read. It also covers what can go wrong. It is fantastic. A buddy to read this with would be great. I have a study guide for this book, I read it in grad school, that I would be happy to email along if you want to pm me an email for her.

If she wants to tell me what kinds of questions she's seeing that she doesn't know, I'd be happy to send along resources or chat with her.