7. Build assessment and evaluation into your teaching. Assessing growth and development in reading skills from both a formal and an informal perspective requires time and training. Both quantitative and qualitative assessment activities should be included in the reading classroom. uantitative assessment will include information from reading comprehen sion tests as well as reading rate data. Qualitative information can include reading journal responses, reading interest surveys, and responses to reading strategy checklists. (See Brindley, Chapter 15, this volume.)