Using Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction and Intervention
Help for reading teachers in continuous monitoring, assessment and instruction that targets students' problem areas This vital resource offers classroom teachers and literacy coaches practical assessments that can be used to evaluate key areas in students' reading performance. These assessments will provide information that can be directly used for planning instruction. Specific instructional techniques and activities are linked to each of the assessments so that teachers know exactly how to teach necessary skills. Tests and other evaluative devices are aligned with Common Core State Standards and state frameworks. Offers a proven model for monitoring and assessing students Assessments and instructional strategies are easy to implement as part of any curriculum Practical strategies are modeled on a tested approach for helping students work through their problem areas
Table 2.10 Strategy Chart (continued) Source: Gunning, T. (2008). Teacher's
Guide for Word Building Book B (2nd ed.). Honesdale, PA: Phoenix Table 2.11
Decoding Checklist Name Date Usually Sometimes Seldom/Never Comments.
Presents information for disabled high-school students and their teachers, discussing academic and social issues, legal rights, the management of educational supports, learning strategies, and participation in extracurricular activities.
Feature Films: Public Perception of Disability Rhonda S. Black Schools play a
very important role in socializing the citizens of a nation. In the United States, they
are the primary social institution whereby students learn to be citizens of a ...
Using Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction and Intervention
Help for reading teachers in continuous monitoring, assessment and instruction that targets students' problem areas This vital resource offers classroom teachers and literacy coaches practical assessments that can be used to evaluate key areas in students' reading performance. These assessments will provide information that can be directly used for planning instruction. Specific instructional techniques and activities are linked to each of the assessments so that teachers know exactly how to teach necessary skills. Tests and other evaluative devices are aligned with Common Core State Standards and state frameworks. Offers a proven model for monitoring and assessing students Assessments and instructional strategies are easy to implement as part of any curriculum Practical strategies are modeled on a tested approach for helping students work through their problem areas
A key cause of dysfluent reading is a lack of proficiency or automaticity or both in
word analysis skills. ... Extensive silent reading of texts on their level is the key activity for building the fluency of all students but especially of students ... If
students have an interest in a particular area—basketball, coins, or animals, for
instance—provide a variety of texts in those areas so that students are motivated
to read.