Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies

Kathy B. Grant, EdD, is an associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at SUNY Plattsburgh’s School of Education. She taught undergraduate courses in family involvement, as well as graduate courses in educational psychology and child development. She also worked as a home-school coordinator through Title 1 in the Missoula School District in Missoula, Montana. During her six years in this position, she oversaw the development of family resource centers at the elementary and middle school levels, worked with family outreach specialists and social workers, established parent libraries, and conducted home visits. As home-school coordinator, she helped develop an Even Start program serving children and parents. Having taught second, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, as well as high school, she has worked collaboratively with families for more than 30 years. In 2014 in collaboration with two rural upstate New York school districts, she consulted on establishment of two elementary family resource centers. These two centers will be part of a larger SUNY clinical field experience effort to prepare teacher candidates to authentically work with families.Dr. Sandra Golden – Dr. Golden has been in higher education since 1988 and her involvement in community development and engagement spans 20 years. Prior to joining the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland as Associate Director of Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood she taught for seven years at Defiance College. She also provided administrative leadership as the Associate Provost of Graduate Studies and Professional Development. While at Defiance College, Dr. Golden earned tenure and was promoted to Full Professor of Education. Prior to joining the faculty of Defiance College, she also taught for seven years at Notre Dame College of Ohio in their teacher education program and provided administrative leadership for the graduate programs. Dr. Golden has 15 years of experience as a teacher educator and literacy educator. Her research interest includes culturally relevant pedagogy, reading and literacy development, and teacher education.  She has written several book chapters and articles and is the co-editor of Connecting the literacy puzzle: Linking the professional, personal, and social literacies, 2012, Hampton Press. Currently, she is the managing editor of the American Reading Forum Annual Yearbook. She is also the co-founder and director of T-RUTH Academy for Young Adolescent Girls, a reading and writing program to support young girls in developing and enhancing reading and writing skills, promoting self-awareness and self-esteem, and engaging in service learning and project development.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsSection I. Foundations of Literacy Assessment and InstructionChapter 1. Building Teacher Knowledge for Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and MeasurementChapter 2. Literacy Background Knowledge and AssessmentChapter 3. Students Who Struggle With Literacy LearningChapter 4. Student Factors Impacting AssessmentChapter 5. Setting the Stage for Literacy Assessment Through Affective MeasuresSection II. Grade-Level Literacy AssessmentsChapter 6. Early Childhood-Level Assessments: Breaking the CodeChapter 7. Early Childhood Grade-Level Assessments: Spelling, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension, and WritingChapter 8. Intermediate Grade-Level (3-6) Assessments and StrategiesChapter 9. Informal Reading InventoriesChapter 10. Reading Commercial Screening and Diagnostic AssessmentsChapter 11. Planning for InterventionsSection III. Designing Instructional Strategies Based on Students′ NeedsChapter 12. Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Word Work Strategies and AssessmentsChapter 13. Comprehension and Writing StrategiesChapter 14. Strategies for Fluency Through ReadingSection IV. Connecting Readers to TextsChapter 15. Connecting Kids to TextsChapter 16. Assessing New Literacies and Media LiteraciesAppendix A. International Reading Association Standards for Reading ProfessionalsAppendix B. Common Core State Standards, State AssessmentsGlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorsAbout the Contributors