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Reading Assessment

Reading Assessment. Learning Objective. Teachers will understand how reading assessments can be used during instructional planning. Essential Understandings. Conducting assessments allows teachers to: Identify students who need additional support or intervention

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Reading Assessment

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  1. Reading Assessment

  2. Learning Objective Teachers will understand how reading assessments can be used during instructional planning.

  3. Essential Understandings Conducting assessments allows teachers to: Identify students who need additional support or intervention Determine an instructional focus for each student Determine how to group students appropriately for instruction Plan instruction according to student strengths and needs on an ongoing basis Monitor student progress toward goals Evaluate the outcomes of instruction

  4. Guide To Reading Assessment ForSecondaryStudents

  5. Essential Understandings Students who are struggling with comprehension may lack one or more of the following: Effective strategies to help them understand, organize, and remember information Adequate knowledge of word meaning The ability to read fluently enough to understand and remember what they are reading The ability to accurately decode the words Interest or motivation 

  6. Looking at Lexiles • Look in Chancery for students’ Lexile scores • Discuss how to use the Lexile information to plan instruction • Use new Lexile report feature in Chancery

  7. Looking at Lexiles Put snapshot of the new Chancery feature here.

  8. “Making Connections” Literacy Commitment Connections Appropriate Lexile level

  9. “Making Connections” HAPG Connections for: Math Terminology Transition game (build in middle school terminology) Review of academic and content-specific language (for specified math subject) The Frayer Model Cues Questioning and Advanced Graphic Organizers.

  10. “Making Connections” HAPG Connections for: Science Pre-assessment Instructional strategies summarizing and note taking cooperative learning Cues, questions and advanced organizers Social Studies "Six-Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary" (all SS HAPGs) ELA Cornell Notes with questions and cues Read Aloud Summarizing and Note taking Guided Visualization/Practice

  11. Resources Lexile information -- http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex=1&tabid=49 Lexile grade level chart -- http://www.hsdist88.dupage.k12.il.us/aths/resources/AT%20MCweb02/TEAMS/ELLResources/LexileConversionChart.pdf HISD Grade Equivalent chart -- http://www.hisdlibraryservices.org/resources/Lexiles/Lexile%20Charts.doc Where to find lexiles on our students -- Chancery, TAKS reports Figure 4 (p. 18)  Figure 13 (p. 38) -- Factors to Consider When Selecting Text for Students

  12. Reflection/Debrief How will you use assessments to help you plan instruction? Name one or two things you can take back to your classroom and implement immediately.

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