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What do you use to Test comprehension?

by Carrie Schumacher

Mar 26, 2011

What do you use to test reading comprehension in your district for grades 6-8? We use the Edperformance Series (DACS), our State Test -Dakota-Step, and STAR Reading.

I'm just curious what other schools use.

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K Fountas & Pinnell benchmark assessment

On 3/26/11, Carrie Schumacher wrote: > What do you use to test reading comprehension in your > district for grades 6-8? We use the Edperformance Series > (DACS), our State Test -Dakota-Step, and STAR Reading. > > I'm just curious what other schools use.

Apr 5, 2011

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Marie Leahy K, Have you found that some students are scoring much higher than their true comprehension level is? I work with 4th/5th graders and we are discovering that students with good background knowledge are able to score quite well on the comprehension portion. Then when teachers place them into guided reading groups, they are unable to perform well at t...See More

Apr 13, 2011

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teach4 We also use F&P and yes Marie I find exactly what you have stated. It may be a better evaluation tool at the younger grades, but by fourth grade I have the exact problem -- they test higher than they are really able to read and understand. I think it is because really most of the expectations for checking comprehension is a simple retell. If th...See More

Apr 16, 2011

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