This book discusses and provides teaching recommendations for the Instructions and Assessment standards of the IRA's Standards for Reading Professionals, Revised, 1998.

This is a book like no other in the market. In an eloquent and user-friendly manner, Armbruster and Osborn — both well-known in reading instruction — explain and elaborate the most recent reading standards published by the International Reading Association (Standards for Reading Professionals, Revised, 1998). These standards are proficiency-based, focused on Knowledge and Beliefs, Instruction and Assessment, and Organizing Literacy Programs. The Instructional and Assessment standards addresed in the book have been “translated” for prospective and in-service teachers into doable teaching strategies that support the standards.