The instruments in this handbook include "performance assessments" as well as forms and procedures that teachers have used to conduct ongoing assessment and encourage student self-assessment. They include interviews and attitude surveys, running records, comprehension checklists, spelling analysis, and emergent reading and writing evaluations
Teachers may photocopy the instruments "as is" for classroom use only.
Lynn K. Rhodes is a professor of language, literacy, and culture and the associate dean of teacher education at the University of Colorado at Denver. Her books include Readers and Writers with a Difference (with Curt Dudley-Marling), Windows into Literacy: Assessing Learners K-8 (with Nancy Shanklin, 1993) and Literacy Assessment: A Handbook of Instruments (1993), all published by Heinemann.