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“An essential reference for teachers, coaches, and teacher educators. The authors provide a comprehensive guide to assessment, including important contextual information as well as practical tasks and questions for assessment. The fifth edition features critical updates pertaining to the science of reading. The new chapter on morphology is a particularly valuable addition. Overall, the coherent, measured approach and balanced attention to younger and older readers makes this a go-to text for all of us who want to thoughtfully administer and interpret literacy assessments.”

—Dixie D. Massey, PhD, School of Education, Seattle Pacific University

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About the Authors

Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl, EdD, is a literacy consultant and author who focuses on translating literacy research into practice. Formerly, she was Clinical Professor of Literacy at New York University (NYU), where she taught graduate courses and served as Director of both the Literacy Program and the NYU Literacy Clinic. Before entering academia, Dr. Stahl taught in public elementary and middle school classrooms for over 25 years. Dr. Stahl specializes in reading acquisition, comprehension instruction, reading intervention, and literacy assessment. She partners with educators as a consultant to support their efforts to improve reading achievement, especially for students with reading difficulties.

• All titles by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl

Kevin Flanigan, PhD, is Professor in the Literacy Department at West Chester University (WCU) in Pennsylvania. He teaches literacy courses and serves as Graduate Coordinator of both the MEd in Literacy/Reading Specialist Program and the WCU Reading Center. A former middle-grades classroom teacher and reading specialist/coach, Dr. Flanigan researches and writes about developmental word knowledge and interventions for students with reading difficulties. To help educators put research into practice, he regularly works with teachers and schools to help improve their students’ reading achievement.

• All titles by Kevin Flanigan

Sarah M. Lupo, PhD, is Associate Professor of Literacy Education in the College of Education at James Madison University. She has worked in education since the early 2000s, including as an ESL teacher, English teacher, reading specialist, and literacy coach in Washington, D.C., Arizona, Virginia, and even Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Lupo’s work strives to position all learners as capable and bringing cultural and linguistic assets to the reading experience, while putting theory into practice to find ways teachers can improve text learning in grades K–12.

• All titles by Sarah M. Lupo

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Audience

Classroom teachers working with children ages ages 5–13 (grades K–8); literacy coaches and specialists; teacher educators; advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students.

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Course Use

Serves as a text in such courses as Reading Assessment, Reading Diagnosis and Instruction, Assessment of Reading Problems, and Reading Difficulties.

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Previous editions published by Guilford:

Fourth Edition, © 2020
ISBN: 9781462541577

Third Edition, © 2015
ISBN: 9781462521043

Second Edition, © 2009
ISBN: 9781606230350

First Edition, © 2003
ISBN: 9781572308671

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New to this edition:

• Explicitly connects assessment guidelines to the science of reading.
• New chapter on morphology and significantly revised chapters on orthography and assessment of holistic reading.
• Aligns with the NAEP 2026 reading framework and definitions.
• Fully updated research, additional instructional resources, and two new assessments—Text Analysis Tool and Reading Engagement Scale.