Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies

Connecting to the Common Core

Kathy B. Grant, Sandra E. Golden, Nance S. Wilson

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781412996587
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483355702
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Evaluation & Assessment in Education

Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies prepares literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their grade K–5 students. Connecting Common Core Literacy Learning Standards to effective strategies and creative activities, the book includes authentic literacy assessments and formal evaluations to support reading teaching in the elementary classroom. Initial chapters discuss literacy assessment and evaluation, data-driven instruction, high-stakes testing, and instructional shifts in teaching reading, while later chapters focus on the latest instructional and assessment shifts, including pre-assessing literacy knowledge bases, using informational texts for vocabulary development, and close reading of text. Written by reading practitioners and researchers, this book is a must-have for novices as well as for veteran classroom teachers who want to stay on top of changing literacy trends.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I Foundations of Literacy Assessment and Instruction What Is the Role of Literacy Assessment and Evaluation in Today’s Schools?
• Chapter 1 Building Teacher Knowledge for Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and Measurement
• Chapter 2 Literacy Background Knowledge and Assessment
• Chapter 3 Students Who Struggle With Literacy Learning
• Chapter 4 Student Factors Impacting Assessment
• Chapter 5 Setting the Stage for Literacy Assessment Through Affective Measures
• Section II Grade-Level Literacy Assessments What Characterizes Authentic Grade-Level Literacy Assessments?
• Chapter 6 Early Childhood–Level Assessments Breaking the Code
• Chapter 7 Early Childhood Grade-Level Assessments Spelling, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension, and Writing
• Chapter 8 Intermediate Grade-Level (3–6) Assessments and Strategies
• Chapter 9 Informal Reading Inventories
• Chapter 10 Reading Commercial Screening and Diagnostic Assessments
• Chapter 11 Planning for Interventions
• Section III Designing Instructional Strategies Based on Students’ Needs
• Chapter 12 Phonics, and Word Work Strategies and Assessments
• Chapter 13 Comprehension and Writing Strategies
• Chapter 14 Strategies for Fluency Through Reading
• Section IV Connecting Readers to Texts How Can Teachers Decide When Students Are “Connected” to a Text That Meets Their Reading Needs?
• Chapter 15 Connecting Kids to Texts
• Chapter 16 Assessing New Literacies and Media Literacies
• Appendix A International Reading Association Standards for Reading Professionals
• Appendix B Common Core State Standards, State Assessments
• Glossary
• References
• Index
• About the Authors
• About the Contributors
• Publisher Note