Students, education professors, K-12 classroom teachers, reading specialists, school psychologists and staff developers alike will find this resource a valuable instrument for measuring the reading progress of typical, remedial, and gifted readers. A thorough, diagnostic, research-based informal reading inventory–with clear, step-by-step instructions for administration–Analytical Reading Inventory offers everything needed for classroom assessment and direct, relevant advice about instructional intervention. Included is a Readers’ Passages booklet and a DVD that includes Lecture Visuals (Show it!), Audio Clips (Listen to it!), Templates (Type or write on it!), and Video Clips (Watch it!).
Mary Lynn Woods has been an on-site language arts staff development consultant for over 20 years, working directly with K-12 teachers and administrators facilitating study groups and conducting in-classroom demonstration lessons, observations, and debriefing sessions. She also teaches language arts and reading diagnostic courses for the University of Indianapolis. Mary Lynn served as a classroom teacher for 18 years, teaching grades K-8.