Understanding Young Readers: The Role of Early Literacy Assessment Author: Stanley N. Rabinowitz, Judy Wong, Nikola Filby This Knowledge Brief is intended to help district administrators, principals, and other instructional leaders begin laying the groundwork for more consistent and effective use of reading assessment in the early primary grades. It explains the importance of early assessment and identifies some of its basic purposes, describes the challenges of assessing young children, explains some basic approaches to literacy assessment and how they align to specific purposes, and identifies some of the issues that need to be addressed if schools are to undertake valid and reliable literacy assessment that can help teachers better support all young readers. ADD TO CART PDF Version: http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-02-02.pdf Audience: Teachers Product Information Format: Print Publisher: WestEd Copyright: 2002 Product #: KN-02-02 Pages: 16 Price: $8.00 Discount: 25-50 units: 20% off 51-100 units: 25% off 101 or more units: 30% off