Literacy Profiles: A Framework to Guide Assessment, Instructional Strategies and Intervention, K-4

Literacy Profiles: A Framework for Assessing, Recording and Developing Students’ Literacy Progress, K-4 is a diagnostic handbook for identifying each student’s literacy strengths and weaknesses. The Literacy Profiles framework names ten critical areas of literacy learning, describes the specific skills related to each of these strands, and correlates their development to the early, middle and late stages of grade level progress.  Each of these strands is then covered in chapters that lead teachers to examine and improve on their own instructional practice.  This book and the framework it presents will serve teachers as a valuable progress monitoring tool to not only assess and record  students’ literacy progress but also impact students’ literacy learning specific to individual needs.

Dr. Sue Biggam is currently a consultant and the Associate Director of Research and Development for the Vermont READS Institute at the University of Vermont. Previously, Sue was an elementary school teacher, reading specialist, Title 1 director, and then served as the Elementary Reading-Language Arts consultant for the Vermont Department of Education. Sue has also been a member of the NAEP Reading Assessment committee and has served as the president of the New England Reading Association.

Dr. Kathleen Itterly is an Associate Professor at Westfield State College (Massachusetts). She is nationally board certified, having served in the profession for over twenty years.  She works as a faculty liaison with Reading First teachers, supervises graduate student teachers in the Reading Specialist Program, and serves as co-counselor for Kappa Delta Pi, the Education honor society.