To measure the quality of a student’s reading prosody, some educators rely on the four-level scale first developed for the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in …

Every highly valid and reliable reading test contains several different passages sampling several knowledge areas and kinds of writing. That fact in itself gives away the knowledge-based …

The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (opens in a new window) and the Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE) (opens in a new window) are two examples of formal tests used by some schools. …

For instance, teachers can test how well a child is responding to reading instruction by using assessments that measure specific skills necessary for fluent reading. The other purpose is to …

Repeated reading versus continuous reading: Influences on reading fluency and comprehension. Exceptional Children, 74, 31-46. Stahl, S. A. (2004). What do we know about fluency? …

The single best measure of children’s ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondences in decoding words is provided by measures of non-word reading (Share & Stanovich, 1995). …

The student could be deficient in a variety of reading skills or in related areas like vocabulary and background knowledge, so administering some informal diagnostic assessments would be …

A nonsense word test, for instance, isn’t trying to find out if kids can read nonsense words (but how well they can decode any words). A fluency test is not about speed reading, but about …

Reading 101. Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young …

The panel judged the level of evidence for recommendation 1 to be moderate. This recommendation is based on a series of high quality correlational studies with replicated …