Reading Assessment

Learning Objective

Teachers will understand how reading assessments can be used during

instructional planning.

Essential Understandings

Conducting assessments allows teachers to:

•Identify students who need additional support or intervention •Determine an instructional focus for each student •Determine how to group students appropriately for instruction •Plan instruction according to student strengths and needs on an ongoing basis •Monitor student progress toward goals •Evaluate the outcomes of instruction

Guide To Reading Assessment For Secondary Students

Essential Understandings

Students who are struggling with comprehension may lack one or more of the

following:

•Effective strategies to help them understand, organize, and remember information •Adequate knowledge of word meaning •The ability to read fluently enough to understand and remember what they are reading •The ability to accurately decode the words •Interest or motivation 

Looking at Lexiles

• Look in Chancery for students’ Lexile scores

• Discuss how to use the Lexile information to plan instruction

• Use new Lexile report feature in Chancery

Looking at Lexiles

Put snapshot of the new Chancery feature here.

“Making Connections”

Literacy Commitment Connections

Appropriate Lexile level

“Making Connections”

HAPG Connections for:Math

•Terminology Transition game (build in middle school terminology) •Review of academic and content-specific language (for specified math subject) •The Frayer Model •Cues Questioning and Advanced Graphic Organizers.

“Making Connections”

HAPG Connections for:

Science •Pre-assessment Instructional strategies •summarizing and note taking•cooperative learning •Cues, questions and advanced organizers  Social Studies •"Six-Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary" (all SS HAPGs)

ELA •Cornell Notes with questions and cues •Read Aloud•Summarizing and Note taking •Guided Visualization/Practice

Resources

Lexile information -- http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=ed&tabindex

=1&tabid=49 Lexile grade level chart --

http://www.hsdist88.dupage.k12.il.us/aths/resources/AT%20MCweb02/TEAMS/ELLResources/LexileConversionChart.pdf

HISD Grade Equivalent chart --

http://www.hisdlibraryservices.org/resources/Lexiles/Lexile%20Charts.doc

Where to find lexiles on our students -- Chancery, TAKS reports

Figure 4 (p. 18)  Figure 13 (p. 38) -- Factors to Consider When Selecting Text

for Students

Reflection/Debrief

• How will you use assessments to help you plan instruction?

• Name one or two things you can take back to your classroom and implement

immediately.