Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K-5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and help to guard against bias. The book's holistic view of reading encompasses areas from text comprehension and constrained skills to building trusting relationships and promoting students' agency.

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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. The Urgency of Now: Addressing Assessment Inequities -- 2. Understanding Students' Funds of Identity -- Assessment Strategy 2.1. Initial Parent Conversation: What Can You Tell Me That Will Help Me Be a Good Teacher for Your Child? -- Assessment Strategy 2.2. Initial Student Conversation: What Can You Tell Me That Will Help Me Be a Good Teacher for YOU? -- Assessment Strategy 2.3. Celebrating Identities with Students and Their Families -- Assessment Strategy 2.4. I Am Who I Am as a Reader -- 3. Building Trusting Relationships: The Linchpin of Productive and Effective Reading Assessment -- Assessment Strategy 3.1. Conferencing with Care -- Assessment Strategy 3.2. Conferencing with Retrospective Miscue Analysis -- Assessment Strategy 3.3. The Blob Tree -- 4. Using Student Talk to Assess Students' Reading Comprehension -- Assessment Strategy 4.1. Vocabulary Knowledge Assessment -- Assessment Strategy 4.2. Language Detective -- Assessment Strategy 4.3. T-Chart -- 5. Assessing Readers' Text Comprehension -- Assessment Strategy 5.1. Retellings -- Variation of Assessment Strategy 5.1. Retellings with Students' Multimodal Representations -- Assessment Strategy 5.2. Think-Alouds -- Variation of Assessment Strategy 5.2. Think-Alouds with Translanguaging Applications for English Learners -- Assessment Strategy 5.3. Questioning of Text Comprehension -- Assessment Strategy 5.4. Semantic Word Sorts -- 6. Assessing Constrained Skills within the Big Picture of Reading -- Assessment Strategy 6.1. What Can You Show Us? -- Assessment Strategy 6.2. Running Records -- Assessment Strategy 6.3. Oral Reading Analysis -- Assessment Strategy 6.4. Elkonin Sound Boxes -- Assessment Strategy 6.5. Developmental Spelling Assessment. 7. Using Assessment to Support Students' Development of Agency -- Assessment Strategy 7.1. Teacher Self-Evaluation of Opportunities for Student Agency -- Assessment Strategy 7.2. Student Agency Questionnaire -- Assessment Strategy 7.3. Student Self-Assessment -- Assessment Strategy 7.4. Goal Setting -- 8. Starting with Student Strengths -- Assessment Strategy 8.1. Kidwatching -- Assessment Strategy 8.2. Portfolios -- Assessment Strategy 8.3. Can You Help Me Understand? -- Assessment Strategy 8.4. Literacy Provision Inventory -- Assessment Strategy 8.5. Photo Elicitation Interview -- 9. Literacy Assessment as Oeuvre: Teachers and Students Building a Visible Body of Work -- References -- Index.