2. Progress Monitoring
• Keeps a teacher informed about a student’s
progress
• Quick sample of critical reading skills
• Is the student making adequate progress
• Modify the instruction
• Accelerate reading achievement
3. Diagnostic
• Measure a variety of skills
• Given if a student fails to make adequate
progress after receiving extra help
• Designed to provide a more precise and
detailed picture of the full range of a student’s
knowledge and skills so that instruction can be
more precisely planned.
4. Screening
• Screening tests provide the teacher with a
beginning assessment of a student’s
preparation for grade level reading
instruction.
• They are a “first alert” that a student may
need extra help to make adequate progress in
reading during the year.
