Literacy Assessment : A Handbook of Instruments

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Summary: The One Stop Shop
Review: I just finished using this book as a resource in a couple of graduate courses I'm taking focused on literacy. I found many very useful ideas, explanations, and reproducible forms to use inside of this one resource book such as parents as learning partners, student self- assessment, discovering student interests, and ways to guide students into thinking about the things they do as learners. One of the things I really found useful about this book is that it is filled with forms that can be used with students of any age or grade level. There are forms that can be filled out by parents for students in the younger grades in order to give the classroom teacher a good idea of each family's literacy habits at home. There are forms that can be given directly to older students to assist them in evaluating their own pieces of work or guiding them through self-assessments(thinking about the things they do as learners/what they do well/what they would like to improve). Some forms are even printed first in English and then in Spanish. There are forms that focus on reading strategies, writing strategies, DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) time, spelling strategies, student attitudes about reading and writing, etc. I believe the thing that I found most convenient about this book is that I felt that I saved a lot of time not having to search all over the place or through many different books looking for different types of assessments ideas or information. The forms are ready-made to save you time from creating them yourself. There are examples for any grade level, age, subject, or purpose. This book is a one stop shop!

Rating:
Summary: The One Stop Shop
Review: I just finished using this book as a resource in a couple of graduate courses I'm taking focused on literacy. I found many very useful ideas, explanations, and reproducible forms to use inside of this one resource book such as parents as learning partners, student self- assessment, discovering student interests, and ways to guide students into thinking about the things they do as learners. One of the things I really found useful about this book is that it is filled with forms that can be used with students of any age or grade level. There are forms that can be filled out by parents for students in the younger grades in order to give the classroom teacher a good idea of each family's literacy habits at home. There are forms that can be given directly to older students to assist them in evaluating their own pieces of work or guiding them through self-assessments(thinking about the things they do as learners/what they do well/what they would like to improve). Some forms are even printed first in English and then in Spanish. There are forms that focus on reading strategies, writing strategies, DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) time, spelling strategies, student attitudes about reading and writing, etc. I believe the thing that I found most convenient about this book is that I felt that I saved a lot of time not having to search all over the place or through many different books looking for different types of assessments ideas or information. The forms are ready-made to save you time from creating them yourself. There are examples for any grade level, age, subject, or purpose. This book is a one stop shop!