The Reading Assessment Program Guide for Grade 9 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:

• Child Poverty/Canada: Opportunities and Challenges, an early-term title with a social studies topic; readability 9.1
• Celestial Navigation/Exporing the Universe, a mid-term title with a science topic; readability 9.3
• Canadian Peacekeepers/Canada in the Global Context, a mid-term title with a social studies topic; readability 9.6
• Gentics/Reporduction, a late-term title with a science topic; readability 9.9

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.