Analytical Reading Inventory (8th Edition) with 2 CDs - Softcover

Mary Lynn Woods; Alden J. Moe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013172343X ISBN 13: 9780131723436

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2006

Synopsis

Analytical Reading Inventory is a thorough diagnostic reading inventory with clear step-by-step instructions for test administration.  This instrument can be used to measure the reading progress of typical, remedial, and gifted readers.  The Analytical Reading Inventory comes with a Readers' Passages booklet and two CDs.  One CD walks listeners through a case study, while the second CD supports students' use of a study guide packet.  These CDs help them to understand how to complete each portion of the ARI to evaluate a student's reading level and performance, and why each assessment of the ARI is important.  New to this edition is an alignment of the ARI tests to standards.

 

Features:

• Audio CDs—Listening segments for learning about each test component and for practicing test administration from a live case study.

  • Allows users to experience a case study of reader taking the inventory, learn how to code miscues, and learn all components of an ARI session.

• Instruction Manual Examiner's Record—Includes three forms of narrative passages and two forms of expository passages.

  • Helps users assess readers agility with a variety of oral readings, as well as listening and silent reading.

• Separate Reading Passages Book—Presents line-for-line match to the Examiner's Record—requires no copying.

• Examiner's Records —In a user-friendly format made up of easy-to-fill-in grids.

  • Simplifies data collection and organizes information in a convenient, visually-appealing tool.

  • Facilitates coding of miscues, helps make it easy for examiners to follow along as the reader reads.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Analytical Reading Inventory with accompaning audio tape is a comprehensive K-12 informal reading inventory which includes narrative and expository passages. It can be used in a variety of reading methods classes middle, and high school students. Extensive field-testing and years of classroom use have made teachers confident that the results obtained through the inventory are both valid and reliable. The inventory renders accurate information about each student's levels of instruction, strategies to recognize words and comprehend book, and oral and silent reading performance. The book contains everything future teachers, inservice teachers, reading specialists, and psychometrists need to administer a thorough, one-on-one analysis of the reading strategies used by elementary, middle and high school students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 013172343X
• ISBN 13: 9780131723436
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 288