Reading Assessment

This trusted practitioner guide and course text helps K-8 teachers utilize assessment as an integral component of classroom instruction. It guides teachers step by step to recognize good reader behaviors, assess students' strengths and weaknesses, and make evidence-based instructional decisions. Formal and informal measures are discussed for evaluating specific components of literacy, with a focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Every chapter features activities for developing understanding; in-depth practice exercises are provided in several appendices. Helpful reproducible tools can be photocopied from the book or downloaded and printed in a convenient 8½" x 11" size. New to This Edition Chapter on major current initiatives: the CCSS and response to intervention. Extensive CCSS content woven throughout the book. Expanded coverage of vocabulary assessment, now in its own chapter. Checklists to guide the selection of high-quality published instruments.

Year

2014

Publisher

Guilford Press

Editions

1

ISBN

9781462514137

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