The Reading Assessment Program Guide for Grade 8 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 include:

• Stress/Personal and Social Mangement, an early-term title with a health topic; readability 8.1
• Aqueducts/Water Systems/Ancient Rome, a mid-term title with a science/social studies topic; readability 8.3
• Mongolian Empire: Genghis Khan/Transition to the Modern World, a mid-term title with a social studies topic; readability 8.7
• Blood/Cells and Systems, a late-term title with a science topic; readability 8.9

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. Jennifer Katz.