Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition

Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition

This trusted teacher guide and widely adopted text provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and hands-on practical tools for reading assessment. The authors present a clear roadmap for evaluating K-8 students' strengths and weaknesses in each of the basic competencies that good readers need to master. Teachers learn how to select, administer, and interpret a wide range of formal and informal assessments, and how to use the results to improve instruction. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 30 reproducible assessment tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.<br /><br /> New to This Edition<br /> *Chapter on assessing vocabulary.<br /> *Additional instruments, including the Informal Decoding Inventory and the Motivation to Read Profile--Revised.<br /> *Links to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been added throughout.<br /> *The latest research and more instructional strategies in every area.<br /><br /> See also Reading Assessment in an RTI Framework, which offers systematic guidance for conducting assessments in all three tiers of RTI.