RETROSPECTIVE MISCUE ANALYSIS

The Essential RMA:
A Window into Readers' Thinking
By Yetta
Goodman, Prisca Martens,
Alan Flurkey
2014 Paperback 80 pages
ISBN 978-1-57274-900-9
Item # 555
$13.95
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Table of Contents
Preface
Author Bios
Endorsements
Watch Yetta's
Speech on video
Retrospective Miscue
Analysis Website
"Assessment is an important part of my
reading and language arts methods course for elementary ed
majors, and I use The Essential RMA as a central text that
introduces my undergraduates to Miscue Analysis and
Retrospective Miscue Analysis. When my students read
Goodman, Martens, and Flurkey’s Essential RMA book, they are
immediately able to begin analyzing miscues and talk with
children about their reading processes. This book is
essential for developing a “miscue ear” and a strength
perspective that emphasizes what children know rather than
what they don’t know."
Renita Schmidt, Ph.D., Associate Professor Teaching and
Learning
COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION University of Iowa
"Call this book the 'pocket guide' to RMA.
What a great resource. It is uncomplicated, instructional, and very accessible! I hadn't thought about collaborative RMA or whole
class RMA before. This has a lot of merit in a
grade 9 classroom where curriculum demands
make it difficult
to focus on one student at a time."
Sarah Shimmin,
Grade 9 English and History Teacher
Brooks High School
Launceston, Tasmania
Retrospective Miscue
Analysis (RMA) was
first a research tool. Now it is a
teaching tool. Using RMA, readers of all ages learn to become
proficient readers of text.
RMA helps them participate
in conversations about the reading process and helps
them develop skills as readers and writers.
Information collected through miscue analysis leads
to meaningful discussions between teacher and
student and among students, with or without the
teacher. As stated in the Preface, "RMA has
the power to bring back joy in teaching and
engagement in learning. Enough to revive good
teaching; enough to nourish a learner."
VIEW
VIDEO:
Dr. Yetta Goodman Delivers Oscar S. Causey
Address:
"Miscue Analysis: A Transformative Tool for Researchers, Teachers,
and Readers".
Literacy Research Association (LRA) 64th Annual Conference,
December 4, 2014, Marco Island, Florida, USA
Video of Yetta Goodman
provided by:
Peggy Albers
Professor of Language and Literacy
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia.
Retrospective Miscue
Analysis Website
We encourage you to visit the Essential RMA website (www.retrospectivemiscue.com)
a resource that provides more in-depth knowledge about
miscue analysis and RMA, when you are ready to dig
deeper. There are links to forms that make RMA easier,
lists of questions and comments that deepen
conversations, and references to books and articles that
are addressed specifically for different age groups and
groupings of readers. There are links to recordings of
readers, showing how miscues are marked, the kinds of
materials we suggest for readings, and how to select
materials for readings. Within the pages of the book you
will see an occasional icon that identifies some of the
content that is included at the
website.
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Yetta M. Goodman,
Regents Professor Emerita,
University of Arizona, supports teachers as professional observers of
learners (kidwatchers) and innovative curriculum developers in collaboration
with their students. She publishes about miscue analysis and the
constructivist nature of literacy learning and teaching and holds leadership
positions in literacy organizations. Contact Yetta at
ygoodman@u.arizona.edu
Prisca Martens
is a Professor in the Department of Elementary
Education at Towson University, Towson, Maryland, where she teaches courses
on reading/literacy and children’s literature. Her research and publications
are in the areas of early literacy, miscue analysis, retrospective miscue
analysis, and children’s literature. She can be reached at
pmartens@towson.edu.
Alan
D. Flurkey
is Associate Professor of Literacy Studies in the School of
Education at Hofstra University. He has taught elementary grades and
special education classes and he has directed the Reading/Writing Learning
Clinic. His research interests include RMA, eye-movement miscue analysis,
studies of reading proficiency, and applications of corpus linguistics.
Alan’s email address is
Alan.D.Flurkey@hofstra.edu.
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