Reading Assessment for Diagnostic-Prescriptive Teaching (with InfoTrac)

READING ASSESSMENT takes a holistic view of children's needs and abilities in reading and language arts. The authors' provide future and veteran teachers with the means for assessing and improving all aspects of reading, and related facets of thinking, writing, spelling, and the emotional well-being of their students. Cutting-edge coverage in this edition includes attention to assessment and instruction for very young children, bilingual and secondary/adult students.

Tony Manzo is a very visible and respected researcher and scholar in education. Sometimes spoken of as "the person who discovered the 'cure' for comprehension deficits," Manzo pioneered the concepts of "mental modeling" and "reciprocal teaching"- two of the most generative and enduring ideas in pedagogy in the 20th century. He has written several books and many juried articles. Tony has also created several teacher-friendly instruments to aid in the assessment of thinking, reader styles, and social-emotional development. In 1993 he was granted the International Reading Association's Wm. S. Gray Citation of Merit, its highest award for lifetime creative research and problem-solving in the field.