Research-based, clinically verified tests help users assess and diagnose students’ reading abilities (Preprimer - Ninth Grade) The
Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory (ESRI) features forty diagnostic tests to help educators, school psychologists, resource teachers, and reading specialists successfully assist individual students in developing their reading ability. This comprehensive guide can be used to measure nine different areas of reading, including: oral and silent reading ability; listening comprehension; phonemic awareness; concepts about print; letter knowledge; basic sight vocabulary; phonics; structural analysis; context clues; dictionary skills; fluency skills; vocabulary; reading comprehension; and reading interests.
Adaptable to most reading programs, the
7th Edition fits well with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. User-friendly examples, directions, and printable testing materials make it easy for pre- and in-service teachers to administer assessments, interpret results, and prepare diagnostic reports. Using the results of the
ESRI, educators are able to differentiate instruction in order to successfully develop all readers.
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About our author
Ward Cockrum earned a BA in Elementary Education and an MEd in Reading Education at the University of Arizona. He has a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Reading Education from Arizona State University. With over 30 years of involvement in literacy education, Dr. Cockrum's teaching experience includes being a reading specialist in a K to 4 school, a middle school reading/science teacher, a 5th grade teacher and a pre-1st grade teacher.
Currently, as a professor at Northern Arizona University, he directs the Reading Endorsement Program and teaches a variety of reading education courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a long-time member of the International Reading Association. He has coauthored two reading methods textbooks, Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties and the Ekwall/Shanker Reading Inventory.
