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Reading assessment : linking language, literacy, and cognition / Melissa Lee Farrall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., c.2012.Description: ix, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780470873939 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.48 FAR 22
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Reading Theory and the Stages of Reading Acquisition -- Chapter 3: Oral Language -- Chapter 4: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity -- Chapter 5: Statistics and Test Development -- Chapter 6: Test Administration and Report Writing -- Chapter 7: Response to Intervention -- Chapter 8: Role of Intellectual Assessment -- Chapter 9: Oral Language Assessment -- Chapter 10: Underlying Processes -- Chapter 11: Decoding -- Chapter 12: Comprehension -- Chapter 13: Informal Inventories and Readability -- Chapter 14: Written Expression and Spelling -- Chapter 15: Last Words -- Appendix A: Answer Key -- Appendix B: Glossary References Index.
Summary: "This accessible, friendly guide is the first of its kind to present a research-based, integrated review of reading, cognition, and oral language testing and assessment. The theoretical underpinnings of reading, language, and literacy are covered, as well as detailed information and administration tips on the myriad reading inventories that may be used in a reading psychoeducational assessment. Unique in its inclusion of instruction on crafting professional evaluation reports to illuminate a student's strengths and weaknesses, this inviting book will enable school psychologists, reading specialists, and learning disabilities specialists to conduct effective interdisciplinary remedial recommendations and interventions"--
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Includes indexes.

Bibliography : p. 327-357.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Reading Theory and the Stages of Reading Acquisition -- Chapter 3: Oral Language -- Chapter 4: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity -- Chapter 5: Statistics and Test Development -- Chapter 6: Test Administration and Report Writing -- Chapter 7: Response to Intervention -- Chapter 8: Role of Intellectual Assessment -- Chapter 9: Oral Language Assessment -- Chapter 10: Underlying Processes -- Chapter 11: Decoding -- Chapter 12: Comprehension -- Chapter 13: Informal Inventories and Readability -- Chapter 14: Written Expression and Spelling -- Chapter 15: Last Words -- Appendix A: Answer Key -- Appendix B: Glossary References Index.

"This accessible, friendly guide is the first of its kind to present a research-based, integrated review of reading, cognition, and oral language testing and assessment. The theoretical underpinnings of reading, language, and literacy are covered, as well as detailed information and administration tips on the myriad reading inventories that may be used in a reading psychoeducational assessment. Unique in its inclusion of instruction on crafting professional evaluation reports to illuminate a student's strengths and weaknesses, this inviting book will enable school psychologists, reading specialists, and learning disabilities specialists to conduct effective interdisciplinary remedial recommendations and interventions"--

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