Overview
Listening comprehension during shared storybook reading is a foundational skill—without it, children are more likely to experience long-term struggles with literacy and later school achievement. With the Assessment of Story Comprehension™ (ASC™), pre-K programs finally have a fast, easy way to measure the story comprehension of children ages 3–5, identify children who may need language intervention, monitor progress, and determine when comprehension has meaningfully improved. A quick check that takes just 3 minutes to complete, the ASC is the sensitive, reliable tool that programs need to test the comprehension skills of all young learners and pick up even small improvements as the school year progresses. Your comprehensive guide to the ASC, this set includes • an introduction to the tool, its development, and its supporting research • detailed administration guidelines, including sample schedules for administering the ASC • general and item specific scoring guidelines • frequently asked scoring questions, including examples of how to score ambiguous responses • fidelity checklists and guidance on establishing and maintaining reliability • a guide to interpreting scores, including typical score ranges for children ages 3-4 and 4-5 • two practice sets of materials for use in training examiners Highly valid and reliable, the ASC is the key to assessing and improving an essential building block of reading success. Use it on its own as a fast, efficient check—or in tandem with the other products in the MILLIE™(Multitiered Interventions for Language & Literacy in Early Childhood) family.
Full Product Details
Author: Trina Spencer ,
Howard Goldstein
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co
Imprint: Brookes Publishing Co
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 27.60cm
Weight: 0.795kg
ISBN: 9781681252384
ISBN 10: 1681252384
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 17 October 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Professional & Vocational
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Reviews
Finally, a reliable standardized listening comprehension assessment for use in preschool and kindergarten. Now teachers can not only easily monitor early phonological and alphabet skills, but important language abilities, too. The ASC(TM) is an essential addition to the classroom prereading screening battery. --Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.
""Finally, a reliable standardized listening comprehension assessment for use in preschool and kindergarten. Now teachers can not only easily monitor early phonological and alphabet skills, but important language abilities, too. The ASC(TM) is an essential addition to the classroom prereading screening battery."" --Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.
Author Information
Howard Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a nationally known scholar in the field of child language intervention research and the author of two books and more than 100 scholarly articles. His recent work has sought to enhance the language and literacy development of students in high poverty schools who are at high risk for language and reading disabilities. A certified speech-language pathologist and former ASHA Vice President for Science and Research, Dr. Goldstein is currently Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at University of South Florida in Tampa.
