Guided reading assessment
Next Step Guided Reading Assessment
Next Step Guided Reading Assessment
Data Management
Assess, Decide, Guide
Assess
Pinpoint your teaching focus, select texts, and plan and teach powerful lessons in four easy steps.
Decide
Use data to determine students’ reading levels, form instructional groups, and create effective action plans for student learning goals.
Guide
Access professional development tools, resources, and videos online to plan personalized instruction with lessons to match reading stages.
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Get to know your readers in
four easy steps
1 . Reading Interest Survey (whole class)
Uncover students’ reading interests to match readers to just-right texts.
2. Word Knowledge Inventory (whole class)
Determine skills in phonological awareness and phonics to inform your word study instruction.
3. Comprehension Assessment (whole class)
Evaluate students' higher-level thinking skills and identify students who need immediate support. (For Grades K–2, this is administered as a read-aloud assessment.)
4. Reading Assessment Conference (one on one)
Obtain precise data on phonics, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension to determine instructional levels and identify skills and strategies to target during guided reading lessons.
Meet the Authors
Jan Richardson, Ph.D., is an educational consultant who has trained thousands of teachers and works with schools and districts to ensure that every student succeeds in reading. Her work is informed by her experience as a reading specialist, a Reading Recovery teacher leader, a staff developer, and a teacher of every grade from kindergarten through high school.
Maria Walther, Ed.
D., is an author and expert in literacy with more than three decades of experience as a first-grade teacher in the Chicago area. She was honored as Illinois Reading Educator of the Year and earned the ICARE for Reading Award for fostering a love of reading in children.
Testimonials
Targets Instruction Efficiently
An all-in-one product that simplifies and clarifies the complex process of assessing and teaching reading. Gives teachers a full picture of a reader so they can target instruction more efficiently and effectively.
Rosanne L. Kurstedt, Ph.D.
Educational Consultant and Staff Developer
Westfield, NJ
Simple Yet Effective
The Assess-Decide-Guide framework is simple yet effective, and will undoubtedly increase the effectiveness of core instruction.
Terry J. Dade
Assistant Superintendent
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
Clear and Pragmatic
The results have been amazing.
Guided reading instruction is no longer a puzzle. Teachers are thrilled with the clarity and pragmatic shifts in their practice.
Ellen Lewis
Reading Specialist
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
Valuable Teaching Points
Valuable teaching points can be derived from the simple checklists for decoding and retelling, as well as from the quality comprehension questions. The assessment texts are appropriately leveled and of high interest to kids, making this assessment a breeze to administer!
Melanie E. Smith
Reading Specialist, NBCT
South Salem Elementary School, Salem, VA
Guided Reading Assessments: 2 Simple Ways to Track How Students Are Doing
Guided reading time goes by SO quickly. If you’re like me, you want to make the most of that time – but also monitor how students are doing!
Guided reading assessments can be difficult to implement…but they don’t have to be!
In this blog post, I’ll share two simple ways to track how students are doing during guided reading.
These assessments will give you plenty of useful data to guide your instruction!
Method #1: Running RecordsAt the beginning of each guided reading group, I take a running record of one student’s reading. (If you’re not sure how to take a running record, please read this post.)
Meanwhile, the other students quietly re-read familiar texts. This is awesome for fluency!!
I have one student sit next to me while the others are reading. I hand them the book that we read during the previous guided reading lesson.
I have the student read all of the book to me (for lower level books only) or some of the book (about 150 words).
I then ask the child to retell. I try and ask one inferential (higher level) comprehension question, too.
I record the child’s fluency on a scale from 1-3 (1 being disfluent, 3 being fluent).
And that’s it! This whole process only takes about 5 minutes.
I stick the running record form in my binder, and get started with the rest of the students.
Later, on Thursdays, when I plan for the following week of guided reading, I review the running records.
If I haven’t had a chance to calculate accuracy and self-correction rates, I do it then.
I may not have a running record for every single student from that week, but I’ll have a couple of running records from each group. (I rotate through students, so I get a running record for each student about every 2-3 weeks.)
From my running records, I can make decisions about:
- What books to choose for upcoming lessons
- Phonics patterns that students need to work on
- Which strategies to focus on
- Whether or not any students need to change reading groups (read this blog post to help you figure out when to move students up a guided reading level)
In addition to taking that running record toward the beginning of my guided reading lesson, I like to take notes and make observations during the rest of the group time.
However…I’ve often found that REALLY HARD to do! Even with the best intentions, I don’t end up taking many notes. I’m busy supporting students in the group!
So I ended up creating my guided reading checklists.
These checklists list out skills that students are focusing on at each individual level. Rather than having to write out complete sentences, I simply make checkmarks or ratings
I usually work on 1-2 checklists per group each time we meet. In other words, I’m not trying to fill out a complete checklist for all 5 students! Sometimes I don’t even complete a full checklist for one student.
Just like the running records, these checklists can help you make instructional planning decisions and adjustments to your groups.
Download Assessment FormsIf you’d like to use the same guided reading checklists that I do, you can grab my Kindergarten, first grade, or second grade set here:
And if you’d like to download a free running record form (and other guided reading goodies), click HERE.
Happy teaching!
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Quite often in elementary school, and even in grades 5-6, students need to be taught to carefully read . It is very good if, after reading a paragraph, the teacher asks a question about what was read or a question related not only to this, but also to the repetition of what has been passed.
Of course, such guided reading is necessary when the text presents certain difficulties for the student. And a pause is needed, a question is needed to comprehend what has been read.
These may be foreign language lessons, where not all words are always known to the student. It can be any other academic subject where a number of unfamiliar words, terms have appeared, and it is necessary to pay attention to how the student understands them.
Guided reading keeps the student's attention to the text. Thanks to this technique, you can lay the foundations for critical comprehension of what you have read. That is, this technique can become an integral part of the technology of critical thinking .
Offering Guided Read Designer done in PowerPoint . It is a text where, after a certain sentence or paragraph, students must answer the question posed by the teacher. The task is presented in the form of a multiple choice test. After the correct answer, the student can continue reading. See how it goes.
You can download the constructor itself here . To use it for your own purposes, it is enough to change the text and tasks. Move the question buttons if necessary. The first click on the button is a hyperlink. Thanks to her, the student starts reading the next sentence or paragraph and answers the question posed.
The task appears after pressing the question number again.
In this case, the question button is no longer a hyperlink, but a trigger.
Of course, you need to place the correct answer where the green signal appears. Move the rectangle with the correct answer to another place on the next slides.
If you need to increase the number of questions, copy the last slide and paste below, adding the corresponding button.
- to improve literacy of students. You can enter the text with an error and ask students to enter the correct option;
- to select synonyms or antonyms for the specified word;
- for reading grades when the teacher asks the student to express their own opinion on what they have read.
I hope teachers find more ways to use the Guided Reading Builder.
Headings: Pedagogical techniques, Working in PowerPoint, Digital didactics | Tags: constructors, simulators, templatesRead speed test.
Online simulator for developing reading speed and awareness skills in 2021! Reading speed is an important indicator not only for schoolchildren, who regularly check it. It is very important for an adult in the modern world to be able to navigate in huge flows of information. A reading speed test will help you determine your current level and see if you need to work on improving this skill or if you are reading fluently enough.
Contents
1. How to check reading speed?
2. How can I check my reading speed myself?
3. How to test a child's reading speed?
4. What reading speed is considered normal for adults and children?
5. How to choose the right text to test reading speed?
6. The book "Everything you wanted to know about speed reading, but were afraid to ask"
How to check reading speed?
The easiest way is to take a stopwatch (you can use the application on your phone), a text to check your reading speed and read it at a normal pace for one minute.
It is important that the text is non-technical, does not contain highly specialized terms and concepts, and is not familiar to the reader. The text should not be too primitive. The testee must see the text for the first time so that the results are not artificially inflated.
But what do you care about speed, if you do not understand with what awareness you absorb the text? :)
A much better way to find out your reading speed is to take a free online test. To do this, sit back, enter your name in the form above, press the button and you will immediately see the text that you need to read, slowly, trying to understand everything that is written.
When the entire text is read - click on the button at the very bottom. The program will automatically determine the reading speed and prompt you to answer a few questions to understand the degree of assimilation of the material. As a result of testing, you will receive not only the result of your reading speed and awareness, but also recommendations for improving your reading technique in the format of the book "Everything you wanted to know about speed reading, but were afraid to ask.
" Enter a name. Click the button and find out your real reading speed. Have a good day.
How can I test my reading speed myself?
We have prepared for you a tool with which you can independently check the speed of reading. Our tool include a certain amount of text that you need to read as quickly as possible. You will then have the opportunity to answer a series of questions about the text, allowing the program to determine your level of understanding. Based on the data received, a result and a certificate are issued. This certificate can be shared with your friends on social networks and challenge them to a battle to test the speed and awareness of reading :).
If you want to do it yourself, you can do it according to the following scenario. A text of medium complexity is taken, located on one sheet. You will need an assistant who will keep track of the time and will be able to test the level of your understanding of the information. Check algorithm:
Simultaneously with the start command and the start of the stopwatch, you begin to silently read the text.
When the text is finished, you say stop - time stops.
Then you need to answer a few questions regarding the content (reading speed implies a full reading comprehension).
The last step is to count the words in the text and determine the average number of words per minute (words in the text can be counted before reading).
This is the certificate you can get after passing the test
How to check the reading speed of a child?
A child's reading speed can be tested in a similar way. The child should read aloud, at least in elementary school. Then you can switch to the usual way of checking for adults.
Schools often test reading skills by counting the number of words read per minute. This gives a small error, since words come in different sizes, but a similar verification method can also be used.
What reading speed is considered normal for adults and children?
The average reading speed for an adult is 200-230 words per minute.
Below average, but an acceptable rate is 150-200 words per minute. Adults who read more than 230 words per minute are considered fast readers. For the speed reading technique, the optimal speed is 350-400 words per minute.
In children, the indicators are dynamic and change depending on age. Approximate norms used in elementary school:
20-30 words per minute for first grade;
45-60 words per minute for second grade;
70-85 words per minute for third grade;
90-125 wpm for fourth grade.
How to choose the right text to test reading speed?
The criteria for selecting text to test reading speed are identical for adults and children. The only difference is the volume and complexity of the information. The text must match the following parameters:
medium difficulty appropriate for age;
the absence of specific unfamiliar words or their minimum number;
no dialogs;
location on one page;
large, comfortable to read font;
lack of pictures and other distracting elements.
In our tool for testing reading speed and comprehension, we tried to take into account all these factors so that the resulting tool would be convenient for both adults and children. At the same time, he gave a fairly clear answer to the question about the real reading speed.
It should be remembered that reading speed is a variable parameter, which decreases if a person rarely sits down at a book, and increases with constant reading. There are many special techniques aimed at significantly increasing the speed of reading text information.
Everything you wanted to know about speed reading but were afraid to ask test. So don't waste a second,
go back to the very beginning of the page and go take the test!Reading speed test online is simple, convenient and fast
We have already written so much here about how to measure your reading speed correctly, achieve awareness and interpret the results, that every second of delay before you pass the online reading speed test and receive a personal certificate is just like death.
Return to the very beginning of the page, enter your name in the field under the video and go to the enchanting world of unfamiliar texts and tricky questions :).
📖 Reading speed Q&A section
📕 What formula is used to calculate reading speed?
If it’s very short, then the formula for calculating the reading speed is as follows: V = (Q / T) x K. This formula allows you to get a real figure for reading speed with a correlation to the coefficient of meaningfulness. You can read more about the formula in this article .
📗 What books do you recommend reading to develop speed reading?
We have compiled a list of the most useful books for the development of speed reading and posted it in a separate blog post . The list is constantly updated and gives an idea of the main books with which you can develop speed reading skills.
📘 What if I want to increase my reading speed?
You can start by studying the theory, or you can download our workbooks , which we have come up with especially for those who who wants to start learning speed reading. There are two of them: one notebook for adults, the second for children. Contains some theory and practical exercises designed for several weeks of regular classes.
📙 How to check a child's reading speed?
The reading speed test, which is located on our website, is suitable for both adults, as well as for children. We specifically tried to choose mostly literary texts that will be easy to read. to understand the child. Just go to the reading speed test page from the link above, enter child's name and start reading. Then the program will do everything for you.
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