The following are categories in which students should be assessed regularly and suggestions for how they can be assessed:

Reading Strategies

• Strategy Quizzes: Strategy quizzes can be given regularly to assess students abilities within a specific strategy. These quizzes should be brief and focused on the target strategy. The score and feedback students receive can guide them in their strategy application in higher-stake situations.
• Strategy Application: Along with a comprehension test, students can be encouraged to apply the strategies discussed. They can be scored on their ability to apply the strategy on the test's reading material, or they can evaluate their application of the strategy after taking the test.

Reading Comprehension

• Comprehension Questions: Comprehension questions can be a way in which reading comprehension can be assessed. They can serve to assist in the teaching of reading. There should be a balance between teaching and assessing reading through comprehension questions. It is also important to ask a variety of questions to students in order to capture the scope of a given text. Comprehension questions can be repurposed to facilitate explicit teaching of reading by simply asking students why an answer is correct, why certain answers are incorrect, how they went about answering a question, and where supporting evidence in the text is. Furthermore, a variety of question types can make assessment and teaching full and complete. Below, several question types are listed:
  • Apply the information in a text to a certain context
  • Connect the information in a text to another source (video, other text, newspaper article, etc.)
  • Critique the author and/or text
  • Evaluate/Judge
  • Expand on information given in a text
  • Explain part or all of the text
  • Identify a detail
  • Infer
  • Integrate information from multiple sources
  • Interpret
  • Personalize
  • Restate part of the text
  • Revisit pre-reading expectations
  • Summarize

Reading Diagnostics