Posted by teach4 on 4/10/09

Looking for suggestions of programs to use at the fourth
grade level to determine reading levels. My district so
far has tried:

DRA2 - seemed to be more of a writing test, but not the
same type as required on our state test, time consuming
when doing a whole class, and had a huge jump in
expectations from third to fourth

Fontus and Pinnel (spelling? sorry) - seems to easy to
have the outcome differ from teacher to teacher with all
of the listening of the comprehension, by fourth grade the
students need to be writing at least some since that is
what is on the state test

So what are some programs you have used that you feel does
a good job at the 4-6 grade levels?

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