Teaching and Assessing
Assessment is known as the evaluation of the student's complete comprehension!
"We must strive to develop and use assessments that describe the complexity of reading growth."
"We must strive to develop and use assessments that describe the complexity of reading growth."
Three Main Sources
1. Artifacts: These can be put into portfolio and collected. For example, it could be a notebook entry the teacher had the student write on a passage of the recent book they are reviewing.
2. Observations: The Teacher can take notes during their observation and this helps better understand the child and where the child is compared to other students.
3. Interactions: These are the discussions and communications we have with students daily.
1. Artifacts: These can be put into portfolio and collected. For example, it could be a notebook entry the teacher had the student write on a passage of the recent book they are reviewing.
2. Observations: The Teacher can take notes during their observation and this helps better understand the child and where the child is compared to other students.
3. Interactions: These are the discussions and communications we have with students daily.
Questions to Ask:
Before Reading
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Questions to Ask:
During Reading
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Questions to Ask:
After Reading
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Strategies for Teaching and Assessing
Observational Checklists
Oral Reading Analyses
Miscue Analysis
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Retellings
Five Finger Retell
Each finger represents one of the following questions:
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Think-Alouds
- Teachers can think aloud in the classroom to demonstrate comprehension strategies such as summarizing, visualizing, or inferring.
- Immediate way to glance into the child’s cognitive thinking
- Generates immediate reactions to texts, and provides information about what readers are attending to and not attending to while they read.
Resources
For Pennsylvania it is important to know how your students are going to be assessed statewide. This including the state tests that are administered. Below is the link to the SAS Website that is resourceful for assessment.
For Pennsylvania it is important to know how your students are going to be assessed statewide. This including the state tests that are administered. Below is the link to the SAS Website that is resourceful for assessment.
Teacher Vision can help you learn more about Think-Alouds as well as why it is important, great ways to model it, and you can learn more about reciprocal Think-Alouds.