Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Collecting Data: Assessment Lenses and Tools -- Lenses and Tools for Assessing Reading and Writing -- Assessing Reading Engagement -- Assessing Reading Fluency -- Assessing Print Work/Decoding -- Assessing Reading Comprehension -- Assessing Conversation -- Assessing Writing Engagement -- Assessing Qualities of Good Writing -- Wrap-Up -- What's Next? -- ch. 2 Analyzing Data: Making Discoveries from Student Work -- Using the Engagement Inventory -- Using the Book Log -- Using the Reading Interest Inventory -- Analyzing Writing About Reading: Short Text Thinking Record, Read-Aloud Stop-and-Jots, Reading Notebooks -- Analyzing a Whole-Book Comprehension Assessment -- Increasing Expectations for Comprehension in Literature -- Increasing Expectations for Comprehension of Informational Texts -- Analyzing a Fluency Assessment -- Running Record Miscue Analysis -- Analyzing Conversation -- Making Discoveries from Narrative Writing -- Making Discoveries from Informational Writing -- Making Discoveries from Opinion Writing -- Wrap-Up -- What's Next? -- ch. 3 Interpreting Data and Establishing a Goal -- Why Is Goal Setting Important? -- Looking for Patterns: Triangulating the Data -- Applying the 80/20 Principle: Choosing a Goal -- The First Teaching Opportunity: The Goal-Setting Conference -- Wrap-Up -- What's Next? -- ch. 4 Creating an Action Plan -- Planning for Practice Over Time: Skills and Strategies -- Where Do I Find the Strategies I Need? -- So ... What's the Plan for Joana? -- Planning for Practice Over Time: Instructional Formats and Methods -- Conferring -- Small-Group Strategy Lessons -- Book Clubs and Partnerships, and Conferring During Talk -- Writing Clubs and Partnerships -- Close Reading -- So ... What's the Plan for Joana? -- Practice Over Time: Involving Others -- So ... What's the Plan for Joana? -- Practice Over Time: Planning for Multiple Students and Across a Week -- Knowing When the Goal Has Been Met -- Wrap-Up -- Appendices -- Appendix A Alex's Work and One Possible Interpretation -- Appendix B Glossary of Assessment Terms -- Appendix C Forms.