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.