The Reading Assessment Program Guide for Grade 4 focuses on how to assess students’ progress in reading comprehension and fluency/decoding throughout the school year. It includes:

• Guidelines on how to assess and use the Reading Passages
• Grade-specific rubrics
• Blackline masters
• Four levelled Reading Passages

The four levelled Reading Passages

• Sound Waves and Hearing/Sound, an early-term title with a science topic; readability 4.1
• The Artic and the Inuit/Canada’s North, a mid-term title with a social studies topic; readability 4.5
• Manitoba and Louis Riel/History of Manitoba, a mid-term title with a social studies topic; readability 4.7
• What are Habitats/Habitats and Communities, a late-term title with a science topic; readability 4.9

Reading and Assessment Program Guide is one title in the Tools for Instruction and Reading Assessment series. The series consists of twenty-four books that are companion pieces to Teaching to Diversity: The Three Block Model of Universal Design for Learning by Dr. Katz.