Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures for All Educators Working to Improve Reading Achievement

by Linda Diamond, Consortium on Reading Excellence

Assessing Reading Multiple Measures, 2nd Edition provides a collection of tests for the comprehensive assessment of skills related to reading. These assessments can help you, as a teacher, identify why a student is having reading difficulty and determine what the next step in instruction should be to remediate that difficulty. The assessments are intended to assist the teacher in determining the instructional needs of all students and in monitoring progress throughout the course of instruction.

Contains a collection of formal and informal reading assessments for grades K-12
Uses short, quick and reliable tests, the results are immediate
Each assessment measures an important research-based reading skill
Assessments can be administered individually
Easy-to-follow instructions are given for the administration and scoring of each test along with reproducible record forms
Spanish assessments are included for the early grades, where the students may be in bilingual programs
Profile Forms and Class Records found in the Appendix provide an easy way for teachers to summarize assessment results

New to this edition:
MASI-R Oral Reading Fluency Measures
CORE Reading Maze Comprehension Test
CORE Graded High-Frequency Word Survey
CORE Vocabulary Screening

Genres: Education

211 pages, Spiral-bound

First published March 31, 2008

Reviews

[cmoney]

Finished my first textbook for my MAT lollll
Good quick assessments for reading, wish there was more for reading comprehension but love the inclusion of Spanish assessments. Will be using these assessments for years to come :p

[Carol]

Had to read for my MA class. Also had to give all of the assessments. Good for a reading teacher.

[tessa]

its hard to judge this book because it is mostly just assessments, but I will be using it again and found it really helpful

[Rachel]

SHOULD BE MANDATORY READING FOR ANYONE WORKING WITH STUDENTS