Literacy Assessment and Metacognitive Strategies: A Resource to Inform Instruction, Prek-12

Packed with useful tools, this practitioner guide and course text helps educators assess and teach essential literacy skills and strategies at all grade levels (PreK-12). All six literacy modalities are addressed--listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing. Chapters on specific literacy processes integrate foundational knowledge, assessments, and strategies for students who need support in literacy, including English language learners. Presented are dozens of authentic assessments along with differentiation ideas. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book features more than 70 reproducible assessment forms and resources. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Stephanie L. McAndrews, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Literacy Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). At SIUE, she developed the Master of Science in Literacy Education degree, the Post-Master’s Literacy Specialist Certificate program, and the Cougar Literacy Clinic. Dr. McAndrews is an experienced classroom teacher, reading specialist, and Reading Recovery teacher, and is certified in Structured English Immersion. She is a board member of the Illinois Reading Council (IRC), for which she has served as president of the Lewis and Clark Reading Council and the College Instructors of Reading Professionals special interest group. She is a former long-time editor of The Reading Teacher journal. Widely published, Dr. McAndrews has presented at national and international conferences, worked on assessment initiatives with the Illinois State Board of Education, and consulted to school districts in Illinois and Missouri. Her primary goal is to enhance the literacy development of PreK-12 students by cultivating literacy leaders who are knowledgeable about literacy processes and can make informed instructional and programmatic decisions.