Big Five - STR
Interest Inventory
Other Important Assessments
Initial Steps in Administering the Reading Inventory
Conferring Planning for Interventions
100

This ability is one that helps to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words.

What is phonemic (phonemes) awareness.

100

This assists teacher/examiners to learn more about a student's background knowledge, interests and motivations.

What is an interest inventory (See page 31).

100

This measures what children in grades PK to grade 1 understand how books work in the English Language

What is a Concepts of Print Assessment.

100

What is the first step in beginning the assessment process?

What is administering the Interest and Reading Inventories on PP 31, 34.

100

What is the next step after my initial assessments?

Schedule a peer review conference with a student in this course to talk through and show your work on the Student Summary Form pp 17-21

200

This is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read this way whether they are reading aloud or silently. 

What is fluency.

200

One important reason for administering and Interest Inventory includes:

What is making good choices for book selections, writing topics or prompts.

200

These assist a teacher/examiner through the analysis of miscues following an oral reading of a graded reading passage.

What are phonics and decoding tests.

200

What is the second step in administering the assessment for this course?

Administer a specific writing assessment (Five pictures/five minutes of writing).  

200

What is the stage after peer review of my initial assessments?

Schedule a one to one conferring process with the professor to confirm findings.

300

This is a list or collection of the words or phrases of a language, technical field, etc., usually arranged in alphabetical order and defined.

What is vocabulary.

300

The types of questions in this include feelings about being asked questions in class, using a dictionary, or worksheets and workbooks.

What is the Reading Attitude Survey,p 34.

300

These tests help a teacher/examiner determine how well students discriminate sounds in spoken words.

What are phonemic awareness and "Alphabetics" assessments.

300

What is the third assessment step.

What are varied steps depending on grade level. (See page 7), although all have graded sentences assessment.

300

What is the third step?

Plan four carefully crafted lessons based on the data analysis from the reading and writing assessment.

400

This process involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound k can be spelled as c, k, ck or ch.

What is phonics.

400

One important way to determine what students might want to write about includes:

What is five separate photos or images about different topics from which students may choose.

400

This high frequency word knowledge survey assists teachers/examiners knowing about which pillar of the Science of Teaching Reading (STR).  

What is vocabulary.
400

What is the fourth step of the assessment?

What is Completing the Student Summary Form (page 17).

400

What are some resources that I can use to plan my lessons?

Check with professor for games and supplies that may fit with your plans

500

This process  is the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows.

What is reading comprehension.

500

What are easy ways the examiner will be able to tell how a student feels about reading.

What are noting which of 3 emojis are selected.

500

Beyond orally retelling a narrative story, these questions provide teachers/examiners about what component of reading that students know.

What is comprehension.

500

What is the fifth step of the assessment process.

Peer review, plan for delivery of first four, then last five lessons.  

500

What will I be noticing in the first four lessons?

What are miscues and evidence of improvement.