This article introduces a way of seeing miscue analysis data through a "spider chart", a readily available digital graphing tool that provides an effective way to visually represent readers' complex coordination of interrelated cueing systems. A spider chart is a standard feature in recent spreadsheet software that puts a new spin on miscue…

"Reading in Asian Languages" is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction…

Considers a reading assessment procedure that offers teachers a way of using miscue analysis in the course of a busy classroom day. Presents "Over the Shoulder Miscue Analysis" as a foundation for reflection, the opportunity to revisit and make meaning of a literacy event. Explores how Over the Shoulder has helped teachers as researchers…

As a special education teacher, locating effective techniques for improving and tracking her students' reading progress became an ongoing task. During the author's first year in that role, she realized immediately that finding an effective approach for improving reading was crucial for her students. A professor introduced her peers and her to…

Gives a brief history of miscue analysis, and then describes miscue analysis procedures, how to code and analyze miscues, and the reader's knowledge of the language cuing systems. Includes an appendix of markings for miscue analysis. (SR)

Two boys from a special education class worked with Wilson to improve reading. Using Miscue Analysis to assess their reading strengths and weaknesses, Wilson engaged the boys in analyzing their miscues (Collaborative Retrospective Miscue Analysis), which led to their increased confidence and use of additional reading strategies.

Describes the writer's experiences rethinking his reading instruction in his special education resource room. Demonstrates how miscue analysis helped him see his students' strengths. (SR)

Discusses a primary classroom in which the teacher uses miscue analysis, print awareness tasks, and book handling analysis to get to know her kids as readers and to build her instructional program. Describes using reading strategy groups made by grouping together students with similar strengths. Appends a description of how to administer the Book…

Discusses how miscue analysis informs two teachers' daily interactions with middle-grade students: how their teaching is transformed, how the structure of the day is changed, how they use reading conferences, and lessons from children. Appends a reading interview form, a record sheet for audio tapes, and a description of a strategy lesson on…

This theoretical article examines reading processes using chaos theory as an analogy. Three principles of chaos theory are identified and discussed, then related to reading processes as revealed through eye movement research. Used as an analogy, the chaos theory principle of sensitive dependence contributes to understanding the difficulty in…

Describes a case study that used retrospective miscue analysis as a research tool to assist one preservice teacher as she reconstructed her perception of the reading process. Over the course of the study, the preservice teacher examined her assumptions about reading, became acutely aware of and revalued her reading strategies, and came o the…

Discusses how the author, a second-/third-grade bilingual teacher, uses miscue analysis to plan reading strategy instruction that meets each individual child's needs by building on each one's strengths as a reader, in both their first and second languages. Appends a description of buddy reading. (SR)

Based on similar psycholinguistic principles to those on which Reading Miscue Analysis is based, the Qualitative Analysis of Silent and Oral Reading (QASOR) is a proposed framework for the investigation of individual variations in oral and silent reading behaviors. QASOR provides a framework for examining how well readers construct and reconstruct…

The second edition of this British publication provides details of recent developments in the assessment of reading attainments and the analysis of reading processes. The book begins with a description of various types of reading tests and assessment techniques with consideration given to the purposes for which normative, criterion-referenced, and…

Suggests that helping readers revalue the reading process and themselves as readers requires teachers to have an understanding of this process. Presents a case study of a seventh-grade student labeled as "learning disabled." Describes a miscue analysis and follow-up activities that helped the student strengthen his reading skills. (RS)