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Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Eunsoo Cho; Samantha Bourgeois; Ellie Friedman – Reading Teacher, 2024
The purpose of this article was to offer guidance to educators in evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and most effective uses of commercial reading assessment suites. We provide three resources to help educators who are responsible for making instructional decisions in reading using formal screening, benchmark, interim, and progress-monitoring…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Decision Making, Reading Achievement, Evaluation Methods
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D'Ardenne, Charna; Barnes, Debra G.; Hightower, Elaine S.; Lamason, Pamela R.; Mason, Mary; Patterson, Paula C.; Stephens, Nancy; Wilson, Carolyn E.; Smith, Vickie H.; Erickson, Karen A. – Reading Teacher, 2013
A group of elementary school reading teachers used their time in a Professional Learning Community to develop a systematic intervention to address the needs of struggling readers in grades 3 to 5. Working as a team, they identified a collection of books that was culturally diverse, high interest, appealing to boys and girls, aligned with…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Reading Difficulties, Communities of Practice
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Nolte, Ruth Yopp; Singer, Harry – Reading Teacher, 1985
Concludes that teaching fourth- and fifth-grade children to ask themselves questions about key points in a story significantly improved their performance on tests about story content. (FL)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades