CONTENT AREA READING ASSESSMENT: A FORMATIVE MEASURE OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

TITLE : Content Area Reading Assessment: A Formative Measure of the Common Core State Standards

ISBN : 9780132596466

AUTHOR : Lauren Leslie and JoAnne Schudt Caldwell

PUBLISHER : Pearson

FORMAT: Paperback

PAGES : 480

YEAR PUBLICATIONS : 2014

LANGUAGE: English

SUBJECT: Elementary Education

WEIGHT (KG): 1

DESCRIPTION:

This informative new book gives pre- and in-service teachers valuable help for assessing reading comprehension and meeting the needs of adolescent learners in the age of the Common Core State Standards. The Content Area Reading Assessment (CARA) is a formative, group-administered assessment of reading comprehension that teachers can use to determine students’ abilities to answer questions based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts and Literacy (ELA) in Content Areas. CARA is comprised of literature, social studies, and science passages taken from representative textbooks at grades four through high school.