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Reading assassments

by Steph/4/TX

Jul 16, 2008

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 :)

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Good Luck 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: [link removed]

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 asses...See More

Jul 25, 2008

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Jul 25, 2008

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mhugs 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: > [link removed]

Jul 29, 2008

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Steph/4/TX On 7/29/08, mhugs wrote: > 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: >> [link removed]

Here's the correct link. It's cyberpg, not...See More

Jul 29, 2008

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Steph/4/TX 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,...See More

Jul 29, 2008

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