Linking Reading Assessment to Instruction

Contents: Part I: Assessment and Diagnosis Defined. Assessment Versus Diagnosis. Skills Versus Strategies. Integrating Assessment and Instruction. Record Keeping. Summary. Part II: Self-Evaluation. Anticipation Guide: Reading Difficulties and Diagnosis. Self-Assessment of Proficiency in Reading Diagnosis. Self-Scoring Cloze Pretest: Reading Instruction. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part III: Structured Observations and the Interview. Structured Observation. Structured Observation of the Emergent Literacy Stage. Structured Observation of the Early and Fluent Literacy Stages. The Interview. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part IV: Using Standardized Test Scores. Interpreting Scores. Converting Raw Scores. The Standard Error of Measurement. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part V: Identifying Problem Readers. Listening Comprehension. Reading Expectancy Quotient and Reading Quotient. Degree of Tolerable Difference. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part VI: Informal Reading Inventory. Administration of the Informal Reading Inventory. Recording of Oral Reading Errors. Quantitative Analysis of Reading Levels of an IRI. Qualitative Analysis of Oral Reading Errors. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part VII: Evaluating Comprehension Strategies. The Cloze Test. The Content Reading Inventory. The Group Reading Inventory. Strategies for Evaluating Metacognitive Comprehension Skills. Strategies for Evaluating Comprehension of Story Structure. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part VIII: Assessment of Word-Recognition Knowledge and Spelling Stages. Assessing Word-Analysis Skills. Assessing Spelling Stages. Summary. Suggested Readings. Part IX: Grouping and Instructional Decision Making. Grouping. Instructional Decision Making. Summary. Suggested Readings. Appendices: Directions for the Directed Listening-Thinking Activity. Directions for the Language Experience Approach. Extra Forms.