Awesome Assessments
Oh...Those 90 Minutes!
Small Groups that Sizzle
Literacy Popourri
100
The reading assessment given to students in grades K-3 several times a year
What is PALS?
100
The amount of minutes devoted to whole group instruction during the reading block
What is 30 minutes?
100
Five Days!!!
How many days of the week should teachers meet with their intensive student reading group?
100
the approach that teachers are encouraged to use the first month of school that establishes routines and procedures during small group reading time
What is the 21 day plan?
200
The name of the progress monitoring tests that can be given to students that show weaknesses on PALS subtests
What are PALS Quick Checks?
200
The name of Henrico's CORE reading program
What is HARCOURT?
200
The ongoing practice of grouping students for small group instruction based on assessment and achievement of skills
What is flexible grouping?
300
Assessments that identify students' specific instructional needs
What are diagnostic assessments?
300
Type of chart where teacher and students record students’ thinking about a text, lesson, or strategy.
What are anchor charts?
300
Activities in literacy that students work on independently or with each other during small group reading time
What are literacy work station?
400
Assessments that identify children in need of additional support or children that need enrichment or extensions
What are screening assessments?
400
Strategy used by teacher to model the reading process and let students see and hear how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.
What is a think aloud?
400
The ineffective practice of calling on students to read orally one after the other
What is round robin reading?
500
The informal reading assessments used by teachers to gather data from a student's oral reading of a passage
What are running records?
500
Name three of the five essential components of the Reading Program
What is phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension?
500
The tiered approach that addresses student's needs using interventions of increasing intensity
What is Response to Intervention?
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