7. Build assessment and evaluation into your teaching.
Assessing growth and development in reading skill from both a formal and an informal perspective rquires time and training. Both quantiative and qualitaive assesxment activites should be included in the reading classroom. Quantitatjve assessment will include information from reading comprehension tests as well as reading rate data. Qualitative information can include reading joumal responses, reading interest surveys, and responses to reading strategy checklists.