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Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. – 1999
This resource guide is designed to provide school districts with information and guidelines to help meet the requirements of Texas Education Code 28.006. The guide contains the list of reading instruments adopted for the 1999-2000 school year, recommendations for administering the instruments, guidance on professional development, suggestions for…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines, Primary Education
Peer reviewedTurner, Susan Douglas – Reading Teacher, 1984
Provides a system for evaluating both the quality and the appropriateness of the placement and instructional tests that accompany basal reading series. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Material Selection
Peer reviewedValencia, 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
Peer reviewedGrunkmeyer, Virgil – Reading Horizons, 1986
Explains the use of the Dolch List in the lower elementary grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Diagnosis
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
Mappus, L. Lynne; And Others – 1981
Designed to be a tool for curriculum and instructional development consistent with assessment of the state objectives in reading, this teaching and testing guide provides a summary of the skills that should be considered instructionally and how each objective is tested. Information is included on state objectives for reading teachers for grades 1,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Educational Objectives, Instructional Development
Woodley, John W.; Smith, R. Lee – 1988
Methods used to diagnose a seven-year old boy's reading problems illustrate the fact that reading assessments based upon a reader's strengths and a reader's understanding and control of the process will provide information which is more useful to teachers and parents than that provided by the numerical results of standardized tests. After Andrew,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Informal Reading Inventories, Primary Education
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
