Reading Assessment to Promote Equitable Learning: An Empowering Approach for Grades K-5

Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K–5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and help to guard against bias.

Reading Assessment to Promote Equitable Learning's holistic view of reading encompasses areas from text comprehension and constrained skills to building trusting relationships and promoting students’ agency. Twenty-eight assessment strategies are explained in step-by-step detail, including helpful implementation examples and 32 reproducible forms that teachers can download and print.

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Table of Contents

Foreword, H. Richard Milner

1. The Urgency of Now: Addressing Assessment Inequities sample
2. Understanding Students’ Funds of Identity
3. Building Trusting Relationships: The Linchpin of Productive and Effective Reading Assessment
4. Using Student Talk to Assess Students’ Reading Comprehension
5. Assessing Readers’ Text Comprehension
6. Assessing Constrained Skills within the Big Picture of Reading
7. Using Assessment to Support Students’ Development of Agency
8. Starting with Student Strengths
9. Literacy Assessment as Oeuvre: Teachers and Students Building a Visible Body of Work

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Index