The Practical Guide to Classroom Literacy Assessment [Paperback]

Demonstrates practical ways to integrate assessments and instruction, and offers specific multiple assessment formats illustrated with rich examples, dialogues, scenarios, checklists, and student samples.Demonstrates practical ways to integrate assessments and instruction, and offers specific multiple assessment formats illustrated with rich examples, dialogues, scenarios, checklists, and student samples. The authors have taken a complex topic and presented it in a very readable, accessible manner. An ideal candidate for school-based professional development organized on the study group model. I found the monthly focuses for the portfolio to be wonderful! Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Assessments With a Focus on Learning: Purposes and Promises
The Historical Root of the Matter
Which Literacies?
Audiences and Types of Assessments
Timing of Tests
Reasons for Assessments
Final Thoughts
2. Writing Assessments
Brief Historical Overview of Writing Assessments
Writing Assessments Today
Types of Writing Assessments
Writing Tasks
Evaluation Tools
Writing Assessment Formats
Assessing Processes
Assessing Products
Organizing and Administering Your Own Scoring Session
Final Thoughts
3. Reading Asessment
Teacher-Created Assessments
Commercial Assessments
Ongoing Assessments Used to Monitor Progress
End-of-Year Assessment
Final Thoughts
4. Oral and Visual Assessments
Speaking
Listening
Viewing and Experiencing
Audience and Purpose
Importance of a Variety of Assessment
Forms and Products
Final Thoughts