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Reading Inventory for the Classroom. Second Edition.
Flynt, E. Sutton; Cooter, Robert B., Jr. – 1995
Expanded to cover prereading through grade 12, this book presents a simple method for effectively assessing the reading proficiency of students K-12. The second edition of the book provides, using preprimer and primer passages, a means for assessing the emergent/beginning reading skills of students just entering school. The book includes a special…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods
An Informal Reading-Language Test.
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Lange, Una A.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1983
Describes the rationale for The Informal Reading-Language Test, then presents the test. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Primary Education
Authentic Classroom Assessment of Early Reading: Alternatives to Standardized Tests.
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Valencia, Sheila W. – Preventing School Failure, 1997
The limitations of standardized tests of reading ability in young children are examined and authentic assessment alternatives, including multiple measures of student learning and the close interaction of assessment and teaching, are identified. Examples of authentic classroom assessments are detailed for emergent readers, beginning readers, and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Emergent Literacy
Reading Assessment: A Primer for Teachers and Tutors.
Caldwell, JoAnne Schudt – 2002
This primer provides the basic information that teachers and tutors need to get started on the complex process of reading assessment. Designed for maximum utility in today's standards-driven classroom, the primer presents simple, practical assessment strategies that are based on theory and research. It takes teachers step by step through learning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Performance Based Assessment, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Pre-school Reading-Related Skills and Later Reading Achievement: Further Evidence.
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Blatchford, Peter; Plewis, Ian – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Presents results from 2 British studies relating preschool reading skills and reading attainment reached by age 11. Substantiates and extends earlier research that correlated early letter identification with reading ability at age seven. Also indicates no support for hypothesis that letter sounding rather than naming predicts subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Correlation, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
READ. Reading Evaluation--Adult Diagnosis. (Revised). A Test for Assessing Adult Student Reading Needs and Progress.
Colvin, Ruth J.; Root, Jane H. – 1982
This test is intended to assist teachers and volunteer tutors working with adult beginning readers in assessing students' reading needs when beginning a reading program and determining their progress after receiving reading instruction. The three-part pretest and three-part posttest each include sections to assess students' sight vocabularies and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Reading with Young Children. Reading: Research-Based Decision Making Series, Number 9302.
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Jackson, Nancy Ewald; Roller, Cathy M. – 1993
This report provides research-based answers to questions about literacy development from infancy to age 6, with emphasis on the development of these skills in precocious readers. The question-answer format considers the importance of reading with young children, other activities to help young children learn to read, normal development of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Elementary School Students, Gifted