Instructional Assessment: An Essential Path for Guiding Reading Instruction

This timely text brings relevant assessment practices into harmony with learning and teaching by ensuring that the assessment process is firmly anchored to the same principles that guide effective instruction. In general terms, Instructional Assessment provides educators with practical approaches that result in effective reading instruction for students of all ages and reading levels. In specific terms, Instructional Assessment is targeted at reducing the curriculum and instructional mismatches that hinder the learning of struggling students. This comprehensive resource delineates the process of assessing the reading performance of students across different reading dimensions: comprehension, metacognition, language development, word recognition, word study, responding, and fluency and flow. Chapter by chapter, this authoritative text provides the empirical basis for instructional assessment and culminates with specific strategies that can be used with individuals, small groups and entire classrooms of students. Helpful reproducible tools are included throughout the material and can be photocopied from the text