Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Inventory Assessment: So What Do I Do Now?

This book will provide a clear understanding on how to connect assessment and instruction and specifically to tie informal reading inventory assessment and intervention instruction together. It is written with the firm belief that a student's performance on an evaluation instrument should be specifically connected to instruction in the intervention sessions that follow. Arguing that there is a disconnect between the assessment of reading and the design of instructional activities to improve it, renowned authors of the Qualitative Reading Inventory, JoAnne Caldwell and Lauren Leslie, discuss how this disconnect stands in the way of implementing effective programs for struggling readers. The book is packed with workable activities for intervention sessions based upon specific assessment results in every chapter. It also provides examples of generic lesson plan structures in which a variety of strategies could be inserted.

In a Nutshell...

Intervention Strategies will help to connect performance on an informal reading inventory to related and practical intervention strategies.

A student's performance on an evaluation instrument can be connected to instruction in the intervention sessions that follow. This book will provide a clear understanding of how to connect assessment and instruction.

Ideal for instructors seeking a systematic perspective on how intervention should be based on assessment!

Important Features:

• Provides specific instructional suggestions for addressing difficulties in word identification, fluency, prior knowledge, and comprehension as revealed by the QRI or other IRI administration.
• Presents a variety of in-class and pull-out models for structuring different intervention sessions.
• Focuses on the structure of the intervention and offers suggestions for designing individual instruction, small group instruction, and whole class instruction.
• Includes examples of generic lesson plan structures in which a variety of strategies could be inserted.

Ringing Endorsements for Joanne Caldwell and Lauren Leslie's New Book!
“The book contains much valuable content. The individual chapters have practical ideas for instruction that are based on research and sound practice and that are presented with sufficient detail to be useful to students.”
—Charles MacArthur, University of Delaware

“The writing style is very student and reader friendly. I am impressed at the references with each chapter... It includes great examples of strategies and activities to develop phonological and phonemic awareness and great examples of the different types of graphic organizers that could be used with Expository retelling.”
—Rosemary A. Siring, Montana State University-Billings

“Well done and complete scrutiny of this topic.”
—Mary Sanders, Angelo State University

“Our students would find this text to be easy to read, and more importantly I think they could comprehend the ideas and concepts. I found the format straightforward so that the book can be used as reference in relationship to the QRI.”
—Becky McTague, Roosevelt University