To strengthen the skills necessary for building reading proficiency, teachers must know what students don’t know. Only assessment data that targets core reading skills can tell you which areas a student is struggling with and guide you toward evidence-based interventions and supports that meet a student’s individual learning needs.

In this playbook, reading experts offer advice for assessing students for reading difficulties and literacy gaps and addressing those deficits with instruction and interventions driven by data and grounded in the science of reading. You’ll learn about:

• Choosing valid assessments
• Supporting ELs
• Planning effective literacy instruction
• Implementing a school-wide reading improvement model
• And more