Reading Assessment

2. Purposes of Reading Assessment: What Do Good Readers Do and How Can Teachers and Coaches Assess This?

3. Methods of Assessment: What Are the Different Kinds of Assessments and What Do They Tell Us about Reading Performance?

4. Assessment as Part of Instruction: How Can We Assess as We Teach?

5. The Informal Reading Inventory Process: How Does It Address the Purposes of Reading Assessment?

6. Early Literacy: What Do We Need to Know about Beginning Readers?

7. Word Identification: How Can We Assess a Student’s Word Identification Ability?

8. Reading Fluency: How Can We Assess Reading Fluency?

9. Vocabulary Knowledge: How Can We Assess Comprehension of Words?

10. Comprehension of Text: How Can We Assess Understanding of Text?

11. Schoolwide Reading Assessment: How Can We Collect, Organize, and Present Classroom Data?

General Summary. Assessing the Good Reader Behaviors and the Common Core State Standards