This easy-to-use book contains a wide variety of language arts assessments to help teachers of reading. The results of these assessments can determine what should be taught, measure progress, and suggest areas that might be causing difficulty in learning to read. Book jacket.

The tests in this resource are intended to help teachers who are assessing reading by determining what should be taught, measuring progress and suggesting areas that might be causing difficulty in learning to read. This book is a must for primary school teachers who are assessing reading needs, for special education reading aides and adult literacy tutors.

Now in a revised and updated fourth edition, this accessible text has given over 100,000 preservice and inservice teachers vital tools for systematic reading assessment in grades K–8. The book explains how to use both formal and informal assessments to evaluate students' strengths and needs in all components of reading. Effective, engaging methods for targeted instruction in each area are outlined. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes 30 reproducible tools, plus an additional multipage assessment in an online-only appendix. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Expanded coverage of the middle grades (4–8), including a new chapter and case study, and explicit attention to this grade range throughout; new coauthor Kevin Flanigan adds expertise in this area. *New and expanded topics: computer-based testing methods, assessing academic language, and how to use reading inventories more accurately. *Additional reproducible tools: informal reading inventory summary form, comprehension retelling forms for narrative and informational text, computer-based comprehension test comparison worksheet, revised Informal Decoding Inventory, and more.

In one concise volume, Darrell Morris provides a complete tool for assessing students' reading ability. Unlike most informal reading inventories (IRIs), Morris's approach incorporates measures of automaticity (word recognition and fluency) together with oral reading accuracy and comprehension. This results in more efficient, accurate, and thorough assessments. Included are an examiner's manual and all test materials for the basic IRI (grades 2-8) plus a separate beginning reading inventory (grades K-1). In a large-size spiral-bound format for ease of use, the book features more than 90 pages of word/letter lists, illustrated reading passages, and other test materials, all with permission to photocopy. See also Morris's Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems, Second Edition, which guides teachers through a comprehensive diagnostic battery for planning instruction and intervention.

Bridge the gap between phonemic awareness and beginning phonics! Pre-readers and beginning readers practice letter and phoneme recognition by cutting out word or picture cards and sorting them according to each lesson's focus. Activities require very little reading ability.

CD-ROM includes video clips, performance booklets, summary sheets, annotated bibliography on IRIs.