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Assessment and Evaluation
Children develop in different ways and at different times. There are certain signs of reading or learning problems, though, that parents and teachers can watch out for. The following articles provide information on different processes for identifying kids who need extra help to succeed in school. You may also want to see the Developmental Timelines and Struggling Readers sections for additional articles and information.
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Basics
- The Nation's Report Card: Reading 2011
- RTI and Reading: Response to Intervention in a Nutshell
- Early Reading Assessment: A Guiding Tool for Instruction
- Early Screening Is at the Heart of Prevention
- Who Can Diagnose LD and/or ADHD
For parents
- Get Ready to Read: Screening Tool
- Is It a Reading Disorder or Developmental Lag?
- Having Your Child Tested for Learning Disabilities Outside of School
- Preparing Your Child for Testing
For teachers
- Helping Children with Communication Disorders in the Schools
- A Critical Analysis of Eight Informal Reading Inventories
- Selecting Assessments for Your School
- Screening, Diagnosing, and Progress Monitoring for Fluency: The Details
- What's 'Normal,' What's Not: Acquiring English as a Second Language
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- Helping Children with Communication Disorders in the Schools
- Responsiveness to Intervention: New Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists
- What's 'Normal,' What's Not: Acquiring English as a Second Language
- Suspect a Problem?
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English language learners who struggle
- Response to Intervention in Reading for English Language Learners
- What's 'Normal,' What's Not: Acquiring English as a Second Language
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Research
- Don't DYS Our Kids: Dyslexia and the Quest for Grade-Level Reading Proficiency
- Learning to Read: Developing 0-8 Information Systems to Improve Third Grade Reading Proficiency
- Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision
- Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
- Performance Counts: Assessment Systems that Support High-Quality Learning
