Practical Steps for Informing Literacy Instruction: A Diagnostic Decision-Making Model

Michael Kibby has created a cognitive organizer of the components and strategies important to successful reading and a schema for evaluating each student's reading proficiency in a rational and efficient manner. This easy-to-follow flowchart guides teachers through the process of assessing students' reading strategies and abilities, evaluating instructional materials, and developing diagnostic teaching sessions for the purpose of designing appropriate reading instruction.

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Michael Kibby has created a cognitive organizer of the components and strategies important to successful reading and a schema for evaluating each student's reading proficiency in a rational and efficient manner. This easy-to-follow flowchart guides teachers through the process of assessing students' reading strategies and abilities, evaluating instructional materials, and developing diagnostic teaching sessions for the purpose of designing appropriate reading instruction.

From the Publisher: In a period when many teachers are moving away from dependence on published programs towards the creation of their own literacy programs, they assume a great responsibility for designing appropriate instruction for the individual children in their class. To Michael Kibby, we owe a debt of gratitude for providing a conceptual organizer to guide our thinking about reading diagnosis.