Vocabulary
define phonological awareness
the ability to notice the sound structure of spoken words.
What is an example of phonological awareness?
phoneme blending, segmentation, manipulating phonemes, deleting, substituting, etc.
formative/monitoring assessments
I am a type of assessment that is more formalized and done on a schedule. My results are often shared with other teachers in team
meetings or professional learning communities.
By the time your students get results back from your state's high-stakes test, it is too late to do anything because the school year had
ended or is near ending. I am a type of assessment that you give all year long to monitor if your students are making progress on your
state's standards before the end of the year. I am a set of "practice tests" that lets you track the progress of your students' reading
skills. You can give me weekly, but most schools require you to give me 3 times per year (beginning of the year, winter, and spring).
I allow you to target/focus your instruction before the big test.
curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
What are the three tiers of RTI?
Tier1: 80% of students
Tier 2: 15% of students
Tier 3: 5% of students
Define Phonics
a system for approaching reading that focuses on the relationship between letters and sounds.
What is an example of phonics?
graphemes, syllables and morphemes.
Summative Assessments
evaluate student's learning AFTER a lesson, unit, school year.
I am a host of observations that you make about your students' daily literacy lives in your classroom. I am your non-judgmentalrecord
of what your students read, how they think, what they say, and how they interact with reading in general. I am also characterized as an
authentic assessment because I allow you to see ways to and to describe how /what your students read...when reading is purposeful in
the classroom context versus in the context of a test.
Kid Watching
What is a readability measure?
these are devices that help see where a student is on reading level. some examples are lexile framework, fry's readability scale, flesh-kincaid.
Define Fluency
Ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression. smoothness of speech.
If the child is constantly stuttering and mispronounces several words, what is this an example of?
bad fluency
Authentic Assessments
an approach to assessment that involves both informal and structured observations and work sampling, including portf
I am a kind of assessment that you use to find out if your students are where they are expected to be...Are they on grade level, below
grade level or above grade level? You will give me at the beginning of the year (before instruction begins) to determine which of your
students need more or less support.
Screening Assessment
This is a measure of the challenge of a particular piece of text that includes measures of the text's features, its conceptual density, and the task to which a reader will be asked to put it. What am I?
Text Complexity.
define vocabulary
is the knowledge of words and their meanings.
being tested over words and knowing their definition is a way to test ________ knowledge.
vocabulary
norm-referenced tests
I am a test given by most (if not all states). The reading scores on my report compare your students' results to other students' results in
the same grade level. The questions on my exam may or may not be related to your state's curriculum, but you can compare how your
students are reading to how others at the same age are reading across the nation. Sometimes results help you know if your students
require special services. I am also known as a standardized test.
I am the type of assessment you can give after screening. If students are identified as needing help, I can tell you the area that they
need help in more specifically. I assess many different aspects of reading (and writing). There all kinds and forms of me; those that
assess individual skills/individual aspects of literacy (like just phonemic awareness) to more comprehensive ones that that cover more
areas. Based on your students' results, you will plan different kinds of instruction for them and choose different books for them.
Diagnostic Assessment
"ake, ock, and oke are all considered to be what?
Rimes
comprehension
phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary all lead to this.
After reading a story, asking a child follow up questions is a way to test_______.
comprehension
standards-based tests
I am a type of assessment that you will give at the end of the year, based on your state's learning standards. Some people refer to me
as a summative assessment because I occur as a summation of learning for a school year.
ex. Arkansas' ACT Aspire
an informal assessment done by scoring words read correctly in a moderately challenging text.
A running record
What is the consonant/s preceding the vowel in a syllable; in a spoken syllable, the beginning consonant sound.
Onset