Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Inventory Assessment: So What Do I Do Now?

Connect students' performance on informal reading inventories to immediate practical intervention strategies! Written with the firm belief that a student's performance on any evaluation instrument should be specifically connected to instruction in the intervention sessions that follow, this newly revised book provides a clear understanding of how to tie assessment to intervention. The renowned authors of theQualitative Reading Inventory (QRI),JoAnne Caldwell and Lauren Leslie, offer workable activities for intervention sessions based upon specific assessment results in every chapter, with lesson plan structures suitable for individual, small group, and full class settings. The specific instructional suggestions address difficulties in word identification, fluency, prior knowledge, and comprehension revealed by theQRIor other IRI, giving teachers in all grades the training they need to match their intervention to students' needs. "[A]n excellent resource…[for] both the general education and special education classroom. It provides the reader with background information [and] research as well as the tools and strategies to help readers in their classroom break the code to become…better reader[s]." Yvonne Bouknight, Glen Ridge Public Schools, Glen Ridge, NJ "These authors possess a great deal of knowledge in interpreting informal reading inventory results, and by writing [this revision], they give teachers a way to better understand how to use information generated from such an assessment." Donna Schweitzer, Forwood Elementary School, Wilmington, DE Joanne Schudt Caldwellis the co-author/author of seven titles includingThe Qualitative Reading Inventory-4andReading problems: Assessment and Teaching Strategiesboth published by Allyn & Bacon. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Marquette University and currently teachers Literacy and Language Development at Cardinal Stritch University. In 1996 she received the Outstanding Service Award from the Wisconsin State Reading Association, as well as the Wisconsin Teacher Educator of the Year Award in 1997 and the Achievement Award from Marquette University School of Education in 2005. Lauren Lesliereceived her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Iowa and is currently Emeritus Professor at Marquette University where she served as the director of the Hartman Literacy Center for many years. She has published over 25 research articles, and she is the co-author of the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4. She is also the past recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award from International Reading Association (2001).Caldwell, JoAnne Schudt is the author of 'Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Inventory Assessment: So What Do I Do Now?', published 2008 under ISBN 9780205608553 and ISBN 0205608558.