Informal Tests for Diagnosing Specific Reading Problems [Paperback]

This resource provides over 70 ready-to-use informal diagnostic tests and other evaluative aids to help reading specialists and classroom teachers identify students' individual reading problems in order to prescribe effective corrective or remedial instructions. These diagnostic aids cover the basic skill areas of phonic analysis, structural analysis, and comprehension at primary and intermediate levels, as well as survival reading skills at the intermediate and upper levels.About This Book of Diagnostic Reading Aids.

Section 1: Informal Reading Inventories.

Informal Phonic Analysis Inventories.

Informal Structural Analysis Inventories.

Informal Comprehension Skills Inventories.

Informal Survival Reading Skills Inventories.

Section 2: Individual Pupil Checklist of Reading Skills.

Individual Pupil Checklist of Reading Skills.

Section 3: Interview Forms.

Child Interview Form.

Parent Interview Form.

Section 4: Interest Inventories.

Interest Inventory (Primary Grade Level)-- Oral or Written Form.

Interest Inventory (Intermediate Grade Level) -- Written Form.

Section 5: Attitude Surveys.

Incomplete Sentences Test (Primary Grade Level).

Incomplete Sentences Test (Intermediate Grade Level).Stephen A. Pavlak, Ph.D., has taught and supervised reading on both the elementary and secondary levels. As a reading supervisor, he organized a complete diagnostic and remedial reading program in his own school district.
Since 1971, Dr. Pavlak has been on the faculty of the California University of Pennsylvania, where he presently serves as a chairperson of the Elementary Education lC[