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Aligning Assessement with Classroom Instruction
Assessment Tools and Strategies
- Developmental Reading
Assessment (DRA) (K-3 and 4-8
kits) allow teachers to determine each student’s independent and instructional
level with an evaluation of three components of reading: reading engagement,
oral reading fluency, and comprehension. DRA Word Analysis, included in the K-3 kit, is a diagnostic assessment that
provides teachers with a systematic means to observe how struggling and
emerging readers attend to, and work with various components of spoken and
written words.
- Assessing Reading
Multiple Measures, 2nd Edition will help teachers identify
reading difficulties with different assessments all contained in one book. The book contains assessments that measure fluency and
comprehension, screen vocabulary, survey knowledge of high frequency words,
etc. This is a valuable resource for teachers working to improve the reading
achievement of both beginning and struggling readers.
- Running Records (Reading A to Z) provide
an assessment of text reading, and are designed to be taken as a student reads
orally from any text. Running records capture
what the readers said and did while reading books or texts. Teachers can review
the running record to determine what happened immediately, which leads to a
teaching decision on the spot, or at a later time as teachers plan for next
lessons that address the readers’ difficulties.
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Basic Phonics Skills
Test-II (BPST-II), created by John Shefelbine, is an informal test of high
utility, spelling-sound relationships for reading single-syllable words and
syllabic and morphemic strategies for reading polysyllabic words. This
assessment is best used with other kinds of assessments included leveled
passages, graded word lists, and measures of phonemic awareness (especially
blending).
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