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Re: Reading assessments: Quick leveling tool

Thanks for the suggestion! I used something similar to this from the
Tampa Reads website last year. But, because I mostly teach kids who
have very recently been exited from the ESL program, it didn't work
very well. They can read tons of words that are simply on a list. So
their grade levels on that assessment came back REALLY high. But in
context, they had no idea what those words meant, so their
comprehension didn't reflect the score I got. I may just have to take
the time to do 957 running records, although I was really hoping for
something that would be less time consuming! Once the year gets
underway, it won't take long to get a feel for where each child is and
what they need. However, I spend a lot of time the first 2 weeks
teaching procedures and establishing routines, and I don't want to
start off with a Big Blocks set up, just to find out after the fact
that I really need a 4 blocks set up! That's why I was really hoping
for some quick assessment I could use to give me a ballpark level on
them, knowing that I will delve much deeper as we go!

Does anyone have any other suggestions? Deb? Brad?

On 7/25/08, Good Luck wrote:
> Hi, One thing that might help is something called "The San Diego
> Quick Assessment". It is composed of word lists from preprimer to
> 10th grade. One website with the words and directions is:
> http://www.edu-cyberpq.com/Literacy/quickassessment.asp
>
> I have used it and found it to be quite good as a quick way to
> assess childrens levels. It is not as informative as a more
> indepth assessment would be, but it is quick and you can feel
> that you are placing students in books that at least near their
> level. Hope this helps.
>
>
>>> On 7/16/08, Steph/4/TX wrote:
>>>> I know that if most of my 4th graders come in reading below
>>>> grade level, I need to start the year with a 4 blocks format
>>>> and work into the big blocks format. My question is, what is
>>>> the best assessment (or combination of assessments) for
>>>> getting reading levels on the kids? I have the STAR
>>>> assessment on my computers at school, but that is all I
>>>> have. As of right now, I was planning on using a combination
>>>> of that plus the reading a-z benchmark books and fluency
>>>> assessments to decide if they are on grade level or not. But
>>>> doing all of those running records will be extremely time
>>>> consuming! If you have any other suggestion, I would really
>>>> appreciate hearing them!!
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Steph :)