Informal Tests for Diagnosing Specific Reading Problems
This resource provides over 70 ready-to-use informal diagnostic tests and other evaluative aids to helps reading specialist and classroom teachers identify students' individual reading problems in order to prescribe effective corrective or remedial instruction.Each test is printed in a full-page format and is ready to duplicate as many times as needed for immediate use with individual students, small groups, or an entire class.Sequenced in the order in which they would generally be used, these informal diagnostic aids cover the basic skill areas of phonic analysis (17tests), structural analysis (17tests), and comprehension (18 tests), at the primary and intermediate levels, as well as survival reading skills (14 tests), at the intermediate and upper levels.Also included is a simple recordkeeping device, the "Individual Pupil Checklist of Reading Skills" problems or deficiencies, including:The Child Interview Form and The Parent Interview Form, which can give you valuable clues to the causes of a childs reading problems through information about the family, home environment and after-school activitiesInterest Inventories, primary and intermediate students, to help you selsct appropriate material for the particular childAttitude Surveys, primary and intermediate levels, to assist you in analyzing the factors that may be interfering with a child's reading progressEasy adapted in any reading program, theses ready-to-use evaluative and recordkeeping aids offer a practical and effective means of helping each of your students learn to read to the extent of his or her ability.