Teachers and clinicians need to make use of many tools to guide their decisions, and published diagnoses accompanied by computer software are among them. Precise assessment of a reader's strategies for handling printed material is in the realm of the trained diagnostician. It can be obtained only through careful observation of reading behavior and detailed analysis of the resultant understanding. A diagnostically oriented directed reading activity or the use of an individual informal reading inventory is a prerequisite. Colbourn, Marlene Jones.
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