READING ASSESSMENT takes a holistic view of children's needs and abilities in reading and language arts. The authors' provide future and veteran teachers with the means for assessing and improving all aspects of reading, and related facets of thinking, writing, spelling, and the emotional well-being of their students. Cutting-edge coverage in this edition includes attention to assessment and instruction for very young children, bilingual and secondary/adult students.

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KEY BENEFIT: Through an unrivaled wealth of fully described, real-life case studies, combined with solid research and a sound theoretical foundational framework, well-known author/educators Rebecca Barr, Camille L. Z. Blachowicz, Ann Bates, Claudia Katz, and Barbara Kaufman provide reading practitioners with the knowledge and skills necessary to assess students' reading and writing and to plan appropriate instruction accordingly. KEY TOPICS: Readers are introduced to early literacy screening, running records, information reading inventories, miscue analysis, assessment issues related to national and state initiatives, including Response to Intervention and much more. MARKET: Written for classroom reading teachers, reading interventionists, reading specialists, reading/literacy coaches, and literacy curriculum directors.