reading street assessment love what you teach. overview

Reading Street Assessment OverviewLove what

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Beginning of Year During the Year- Daily During the Year- Weekly During the Year- End of Each Unit End of Year

Baseline Group Test • Is administered as a placement test to your

entire class • Provides options for group and individual

administration • Identifies your below-level students requiring

strategic intervention • Identifies your on-level students • Identifies your above-level students requiring

challenge • Helps you use Scott Foresman Reading Street

features and components to focus instruction on students’ needs

• Establishes baseline data

Teacher’s Edition and First Stop • Ongoing assessment • Success Predictor boxes • Guiding Comprehension questions• Reading fluency assessment • Think Critically • Look Back and Write model

answers • Writing Scoring Rubrics • Spelling tests • Weekly assessment for phonics and word

analysis, vocabulary words, and comprehension

Weekly Tests • Are multiple-choice tests

administered on Day 5 of every week • Measure students’ understanding of each

week’s introduced vocabulary words, phonics/word analysis skills, and comprehen-sion skills

• Help identify students who have mastered each week’s words and skills and students who may need intervention

Unit Benchmark Tests • Are multiple-choice and constructed-response

tests administered throughout the year, at the end of each six-week unit

• Measure students’ abilities to apply target comprehension skills and other literacy skills taught during each unit

• Help you make instructional decisions for each student

• Provide feedback about the effectiveness of your instruction and help you plan instruction for the next unit

End-of-Year Benchmark Test • Is a cumulative test administered at the end of

each grade • Provides three reading selections • Tests comprehension skills,

vocabulary strategies, phonics skills, written conventions (grammar, usage, and mechanics skills), and writing

• Combines multiple-choice and constructed response questions

• Provides an integrated approach to assessment

Assessment Handbook Informal, classroom-based assessment tools and techniques, including: • Student and parent surveys • Reading, writing, and oral-language

teacher checklists • Learner inventories and profiles

Reader’s and Writer’s Notebook • Provides practice pages for phonics,

vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension skills • Grammar and writing process practice and

cumulative reviews • Reading and writing logs • Helps you identify students needing more

instruction• Think Critically

• In the student edition• Informal formative assessment• Performance Task• Scoring Rubics in Teacher Edition

Fresh Reads for Fluency and Comprehension• Are multiple-choice and constructed-response

tests administered throughout the year, each week after students have been taught the comprehension skill lesson

• Give students opportunities to practice the target and review comprehension skills of the week with new selections matched to their instructional reading levels

• Provide checks of oral reading fluency

Unit College and Career Ready Assessments:• In 2 formats- Balanced Assessment and

College and Career Readiness• Prepare students for test formats aligned to

Common Core.• Assess Comprehension, Vocabulary, and

Writing Skills• Multiple Choice, Multiple Mark formats

Assessment Handbook • Informal, classroom-based assessment tools

and techniques, including: • Summary reports, forms, and checklists • Student portfolios • Cumulative folder forms • Reading and writing logs • Reading and writing assessment forms• Guidance with grading

Technology • Online assessment and data management with

diagnostic prescriptions • Exam View: Test generator with alignment

to statewide and district-wide standards and prescriptions

Assessment Handbook Informal, classroom-based assessment tools and techniques, including: • Questioning strategies • Teacher observation forms • Fluency checks • Retelling and summarizing forms • Work habits and skills conference records • Parent observation form • Self, peer, and group assessment forms • Student portfolios • Reading and writing logs and responses

Retelling Assessment• Retelling of Main Selection• Measures comprehension• Retelling Rubrics in the Teacher Edition

Next Generation Practice Assessments• Two formats available- Balanced and College

and Career Readiness• Computerized assessments in the format of the

state level assessments• Provides practice in the new testing format

Technology • Online assessment and data management with

diagnostic prescriptions • ExamView: Test generator with alignment to

statewide and district-wide standards and prescriptions

Technology • Online assessment and data management with

diagnostic prescriptions • ExamView: Test generator with alignment to

statewide and district-wide standards and prescriptions

Weekly College and Career Ready Assessments:• In two formats- Balanced Assessment and

College and Career Readiness• Prepare students for test formats aligned to

Common Core.• Assess Comprehension, Vocabulary, and

Writing Skills• Multiple Choice, Multiple Mark formats

Technology • Online assessment and data management with

diagnostic prescriptions • ExamView: Test generator with alignment to

statewide and district-wide standards and prescriptions

Reading Street Sleuth• Performance Task• Text Evidence

Writing to Sources• Text Evidence• Compare multiple text to one prompt• Argument, Narrative, and Expository formats

Technology • Online assessment and data management with

diagnostic prescriptions • ExamView: Test generator with alignment to

statewide and district-wide standards and prescriptions

A variety of assessment instruments, used with fiction and nonfiction selections, allow you to determine students’ strengths and needs, monitor students’ progress, measure students’ skill and strategy proficiencies, and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction from the beginning of the school year to the end!

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Assessment Handbook

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Key Features• Readingandstrategyresponselogs

• Practiceforphonics,vocabulary,andcomprehension

• Grammarandwritingprocesslessons,withcumulativereviews

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• Formsforstudentstorecordinterestsandprogress

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