Assessment of Preschool Early Literacy Skills: Linking Children’s Educational Needs with Empirically Supported Instructional Activities

This resource explores how early childhood assessment informs instruction and intervention, highlighting screening, diagnostic, and progress monitoring assessments.  The authors, experts in the field of early childhood education and assessment, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each type of assessment.  An appendix provides psychometric information on various diagnostic assessments of oral language, phonological processing, and print knowledge. This article can be accessed here.

This resource pertains to the following topics:

• Early Learning
• Research: Meta-analyses and Summaries
• Practitioner Guides
• Standards and Assessments
• Reading Instruction and Interventions

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