Regarded as the standard resource on reading assessment, this teacher guide and widely adopted text combines essential background knowledge with indispensable hands-on tools. The book provides a clear framework for planning, administering, scoring, and interpreting a wide range of formal and informal assessments, and for using the results to improve instruction. Practical, easy-to-understand examples illustrate effective ways to evaluate K-8 students' strengths and weaknesses in each of the core competencies that good readers need to master. More than two dozen reproducibles are featured.

New to This Edition

• Fully updated and revised for even greater utility.
• Expanded chapters on phonemic awareness and fluency.
• New sections on DIBELS and maze tasks, the popular, RTI-compatible protocols.
• New reproducibles, including Tests of Phonemic Awareness, Checklist of Internet Strategies, and Adolescent Reading Attitudes Survey.
• A quick-reference table now summarizes all of the instruments.