reading assessment
Comprehension skill check
A reading assessment is a test or evaluation measuring reading ability—comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, or decoding skills.
Schools use reading assessments to track student progress, identify struggling readers, and guide instruction: The district requires reading assessments three times a year.
Assessment types range from standardized tests to informal classroom observations.
- diagnostic testExam identifying medical conditions
- benchmark testEvaluation against established norms
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
- working memoryTemporary cognitive holding space
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- gifted readingcomprehension, vocabulary, literary analysis, enrichment, acceleration
- reading assessmentcomprehension test, diagnostic test, benchmark test, fluency, decoding
reading assessmentreading instruction
Teaching people to decode text
guided reading · read-aloud · story time · phonics instruction
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