Full Description
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 8 1/2 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.
Contents
1. New Initiatives and New Concerns: How Have They Influenced Reading Assessment? 2. Purposes of Reading Assessment: What Do Good Readers Do and How Can Teachers and Coaches Assess This? 3. Methods of Assessment: What Are the Different Kinds of Assessments and What Do They Tell Us about Reading Performance? 4. Assessment as Part of Instruction: How Can We Assess as We Teach? 5. The Informal Reading Inventory Process: How Does It Address the Purposes of Reading Assessment? 6. Early Literacy: What Do We Need to Know about Beginning Readers? 7. Word Identification: How Can We Assess a Student’s Word Identification Ability? 8. Reading Fluency: How Can We Assess Reading Fluency? 9. Vocabulary Knowledge: How Can We Assess Comprehension of Words? 10. Comprehension of Text: How Can We Assess Understanding of Text? 11. Schoolwide Reading Assessment: How Can We Collect, Organize, and Present Classroom Data? General Summary. Assessing the Good Reader Behaviors and the Common Core State Standards
