Download or read book Assessing and Guiding Classroom Reading Instruction written by Martha Collins and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides classroom teachers with information on developing a systematic procedure for assessing reading skill performance and offers prescriptive instruction. The first chapter addresses reading as a language process and establishes the basic conceptual framework. The remainder of the text is organized around five steps that should be followed to provide effective reading instruction. New to this edition: --The latest research on teacher instruction for technologically advanced students. --More emphasis on student assessment versus clinical diagnoses. --The importance of assessing and guiding reading through language literacy development is stressed.