Flynt Cooter Reading Inventory For The Classroom

Using a constructivist approach, this informal inventory provides teachers with a simple, straightforward means of assessing reading competencies for pre-K through grade 12 students. A comprehensive treatment offers a plan for reading assessment that is compatible with balanced reading instruction, yet retains some traditional methods and descriptions. The book enables teachers to place students with appropriate reading and instructional materials; acquire insight into reading developments (reading of connected text, word analysis, story and content comprehension, miscue analysis); place students in appropriate basal reading programs; plan collaborative learning activities involving reading, planning, and mini-lessons; and determine which non-negotiable student skills require further development. For future and current teachers.

Derived from the Flynt/Cooter Classroom Reading Inventory, this informal classroom inventory offers teachers of preschool through Grade 12 the simple, straightforward miscue analysis method for assessing their students' level of competency in reading comprehension and fluency.In addition this text provides easily administered assessment tools for discerning students' development in phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary. Additional materials are provided to help teachers to assess students' whose first language is Spanish and students who have special needs. --from publisher description

Normal 0 false false false A first-of-its-kind, comprehensive reading inventory for assessing the "Big Five" components of reading instruction as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It offers the simple, straightforward miscue analysis method for assessing students' levels of competency in reading comprehension and fluency, and offers easily administered assessment tools for discerning students' development in phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary. The Flynt/Cooter informal reading inventory is recognized as the top choice of thousands of classroom teachers for its ability to help them quickly and reliably assess the reading skills and needs of their students. The Flynt/Cooter is considered an essential tool in preparing the next generation of P-12 teachers serving native English speakers, and/or English learners via the Classroom Reading Inventory: Español Version (CRI: Español) provided on the book's new accompanying PDToolkit. In addition, the CRI has been the choice of many reading and literacy researchers seeking an evidence-based and validated instrument for use in high stakes research.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Designed to help educators assess the “Big Five” components of reading instruction as identified by the National Reading Panel—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension—the CRI is recognized as a leader in the field for its ability to ensure quick and reliable assessment of the reading skills and needs of students in grades Pre-K through 12. The groundbreaking features that made this book’s original edition a top choice of teachers and literacy coaches for many decades are continued here, along with a number of changes that make the analysis of data more efficient and increase student learning, among them a Spanish version to help educators better serve the needs of English speakers and/or English learners.

CD-ROM includes video clips, performance booklets, summary sheets, annotated bibliography on IRIs.

Assessment tool for teachers of reading in regular, bilingual, and ESL classrooms.

"Case studies, mini-lessons, outlines, checklists, book lists and computer programs to help reading success in the classroom" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

This is the only reading inventory on the market to offer prospective teachers of preschool through Grade 12 the simple, straightforward miscue analysis method for assessing their pupils' level of competency in reading. Through the use of this inventory, future teachers can determine how to 1) provide students with appropriate reading/instructional materials, and 2) place them into appropriate basal reading programs. They'll also acquire insight into reading development, learn to plan collaborative learning activities, and be able to determine which non-negotiable skills require further development. A protocol for assessing students' reading fluency rate creates a handy tool for determining if a reader's focus is on word recognition or on comprehension. A miscue analysis form after each miscue grid assists future teachers in identifying the specific reading skills each pupil needs to develop - offering ideas for appropriate intervention strategies. The text includes a variety of reading passages, both long and short, and all on topics of high-interest for elementary and secondary students. It also features story grammar analysis (in Forms A and B) and expository text grammars (in Forms C and D). Aids teachers of preschool through Grade 12 in reading/literature assessment.

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