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Secondary Reading Assessments
How to place students in appropriate reading intervention instruction with secondary reading assessments? Teacher/counselor/parent/cumulative file recommendations and normed or even criterion referenced tests to narrow things…
Tier 3 Reading and Spelling Assessments
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Reading Counts! Claims and Counterclaims
The purpose of this article on Reading Counts! is threefold: 1. To briefly summarize the basics of the Reading Counts! (RC) independent reading management program 2.…
Diagnostic Reading and Spelling Assessments
Elementary, secondary, and adult English language-arts and reading intervention teachers need comprehensive literacy assessments to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses for individual students and their classes. Following…
ELA and Reading Diagnostic and Formative Assessments
DO use both diagnostic and formative assessments. DON'T assess to determine a generic problem. DO review mastered material often. DON'T solely assess grade-level Standards.
ELA and Reading Assessment as Instruction
Here's four Do's and Don't of ELA and Reading Assessments preview: DO treat assessment as instruction. DON'T trust all assessment results. DO make students and parents your assessment partners. Don't…
Depend upon Diagnostic ELA and Reading Data
ELA and reading assessments: DO analyze data both data deficits and mastery. DON'T assess what you haven't taught. DO use instructional resources with embedded assessments. DON'T…
Assessment-based ELA and Reading Instruction
Teachers are fixers. In some sense we view our students as "as is" houses or fixer-uppers, waiting for us to determine what needs repair and updating…