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Next Step Guided Reading Assessment

Next Step Guided Reading Assessment

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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

Understanding Your Child's DRA Reading Level

The Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) is an individually administered assessment of a child’s reading capabilities. It is a tool to be used by instructors to identify a students reading level, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. Once levels are identified, an instructor can use this information for instructional planning purposes. 

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DRA Testing
The DRA test is traditionally administered on an annual or semi-annual basis. The test measures nine categories of reading behavior and six types of errors. It was developed in 1986 (and revised in both 2000 and 2003) by a committee of educators and is intended to evaluate certain aspects of your child’s reading level. 

How DRA Levels and Testing Work Together
Tasks measured by the DRA test are divided into several skill sets. Rhyming, alliteration, segmentation, and phonemic awareness are tested in the phonemic awareness section. Letter naming, word-list reading, spelling, decoding, analogies, structural analysis, and syllabication are tested in the alphabetic principle/phonics portions. Oral reading fluency or words per minute for contextual reading are tested under fluency. Vocabulary, comprehension, and reading engagement skills are also measured in the test.

After the test is evaluated and scored, your child is assigned a numeric (or alphanumeric for very early readers) DRA level A1 through 80. Children with stronger reading abilities yield higher numbers. Teachers are easily able to give children books they can read by choosing a text with the corresponding DRA level.  

How to Find Books on Your Child’s Level
Once your teacher gives you your child’s level, you can search for books at a particular DRA level on Scholastic’s Book Wizard. By providing your child with books on his level at home, you are ensuring reading advancement and success with materials that will not cause your child stress or discouragement. 

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Read 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.

Content

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 don't 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).

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 words per minute 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,

Reading speed test online is simple, convenient and fast

We have already written so much here about how to correctly measure your reading speed, 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 here 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 post on the blog. 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 learning the theory, or you can download our workbooks , which we have created 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.

📔 I want to check my reading speed online for free. How to do it?

Easier nowhere. The tool, which is located at https://bukva.info/rapid/ , was created just for this. You just enter your name, read the text and answer the questions. The program monitors the speed of your reading and its meaningfulness. After answering the questions, you will receive a certificate with your result. The certificate can be shared with friends in social networks :).

📓 What is the "Read Fast" project?

Read Fast is a project dedicated to the problem of fast and conscious reading. We believe that you can read 3-4 times faster. However, the quality of memory reading material will only increase. Let's try together :).

Testing in literary reading classes in elementary school

Checking testing:

• Front check.
• Mutual check.
• Individual verification.
• Self assessment.

If the self-assessment of the child and the teacher match, the teacher simply circles the children's cross with red paste. When return the children their work, then first I name the children whose self-esteem coincided with teacher's assessment and I praise them very much: “These students already know how to do difficult and important thing - they know how to evaluate themselves! Some still need to practice in …. ., but if you yourself know what you can’t do, you will learn more easily.”

Task before modern elementary school is important: to develop in children an interest in reading, and then the need for it.

Goals :

• Introduce children to the world of books a source of enrichment for their minds and senses, as a means of developing their interest to reading.
• Awaken the desire to read. Initially, the child should be able to choose a book and enjoy from reading.

At the same time, students should be able to read the text to yourself and understand it. Such a reading presupposes the corresponding forms of work of students and teachers, as well as methods for monitoring the correctness reading and reading comprehension.

In my reading class I try to to achieve the skill of full reading, and this is expressive, fluent, correct, conscious reading.

Expression, fluency and I hear correct reading in class. Check reading comprehension more difficult. And for a long time I was looking for how to objectively draw a conclusion about consciousness read text. And in my search, I came to the following conclusion that it is necessary to introduce an information-value approach in the work on the content text. This approach recommends testing to verify reading comprehension.

Starting from first grade, as as soon as the children began to read small texts, I began to type “Information-Value Approach in Teaching Reading”, which was developed by candidate of psychological sciences Kushnir M.A. And I began to work on it methodology, making adjustments to suit the characteristics of the students in my class.

The process of learning to read is understood not only as a recreation of the sound image of the word, but the mastery of the cognitive, communicative activity. The content of the text is at the center of the lesson. great educational potential. Lesson Functions - Maximum Extraction information.

Huge developmental and educational testing is powerful. Testing is one of the methods of quality control comprehension of the reading.

Testing – individual survey or task system offered to everyone at the same time students.

Check testing

Several types of tests are carried out, serving to check the assimilation of various kinds of material.

TEST FOR MAINTENANCE (TS)

Content acquisition test can be based on a work of any genre or part of it. Test used in mindfulness tests starting in grade 1.

All questions in the 1st grade are asked with interrogative intonation, then interrogative sentences are replaced declarative sentences, and the children must agree with the statement teacher or reject it.

By the end of grade 1, students learn to test and, starting from the 2nd grade, must be used to compiling a test of declarative sentences, reading them with the appropriate intonation, without highlighting the word that carries the main semantic load.

For example: Russian Folk fairy tale "Egg".

1. Grandfather lived for himself yes Baba, they had a motley hen.

(+) (variegated coloration, “speckled” - with admixture of red.)

2. A hen laid a testicle on the street (+).

3. Grandfather accidentally broke a testicle (-) (the mouse crushed its tail).

I I. DESCRIPTION TEST (D. T.)

Description test can be used if the text contains a description of a literary hero, subject or phenomena.

The test may consist of questions statements, riddles, proverbs, sayings, definitions.

A. TEST, COMPILED ON THE BASIS OF THE EXTERNAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HERO.

Before reading the work is given task for students to remember the appearance of the hero.

Russian folk fairy tale "Snow Maiden".

1. Snow Maiden. (Girl white as a snowball.)

2. Girlfriends.

B. TEST, COMPILED ON THE BASIS OF THE DEFINITIONS OF THE APPEARANCE, CHARACTER, MIND OF THE HERO .

The names of those heroes on which a description is given, indicating the number in order.

Students must indicate the number of the hero in the corresponding column, to whom the description corresponds.

A. Tolstoy "The Adventures of Pinocchio".

Students must indicate the number of the hero in the corresponding column to whom the description corresponds.

These tests are usually performed when, after reading, a characterization of the hero is compiled: appearance, features nature, which is necessary to prepare for mini-essays.

V. TEST, COMPILED ON THE BASIS OF PROVERBS, SAYINGS.

Test based on proverbs and sayings, is associated with the assimilation of the description and is used in the event that if you want to evaluate the actions of one or more literary characters, reveal their character.

Is the meaning of the given proverbs (sayings) character of this character. Students should think about the meaning of the proverb, over the actions and character of the hero and decide whether it fits to this hero.

V. Oseeva "Magic word".

G. THE TEST COMPILED ON THE BASIS OF MYSTERIES.

Purpose: used to check understanding of the work.

Example: test understanding of natural phenomena.

Write to overhead projector:

1. Autumn.

2. Winter.

3. Spring.

4. Summer.

Teacher read riddles, students celebrate natural phenomena.

Riddles about times year .

1.

The mother is angry, but she covered the children
until the red day with a duvet.

2.

A peahen flew in, sat on the lava,
spread feathers for any potion.

From the depths of time, riddles were brought to us the wisdom of the Russian people. In them, he simply and colorfully expressed himself, his labor, their attitude to the surrounding world, to natural phenomena. Easy to guess riddles one who has a good idea of ​​​​the objects and phenomena that are speech, and also solves the hidden meaning in words. And if you look at the environment world with attentive, keen eyes, noticing all its beauty and richness, then every tricky question, every allegory in riddles will be solved.

III. TEST FOR MASTERING THE LEXICAL MEANING OF WORDS (T. SL.)

Purpose. Expand vocabulary of students, to teach them to understand the lexical meaning of words.

Test for vocabulary acquisition the meaning of words serves to check the quality of assimilation of the lexical meaning of words, the ability to correctly explain the lexical meaning of these words.

Children are read a sentence or a phrase explaining a difficult word, and students in their testers put down the number of the desired word that corresponds to the explanation.

Example: P.P. Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse".

Words on overhead:

IV. TEST FOR CORRELATION OF THE CONTENT TO THE TITLE OF THE WORK (T.T.)

Purpose: Ordering of knowledge according to the literature read. Give students a list read works of any author. Then I read the passages in order from works.

Students have to match the passage with the work from which it is taken.

1 variant.

2 variant of this test: on the board are the names of the writers:

Student task: name, mark in the test the author of the work, whose passage was read out.

V. TEST FOR MASTERING THE VALUES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS (TF).

Reading comprehension of phraseological units is an indicator of the level of proficiency in the native language. Phraseologisms make up the national wealth of the language, accurately, aptly and very figuratively characterize all side of reality.

There are combinations in Russian words that cannot be broken, they have one integral meaning. For example, Needless to say, we got up very early. For this we use the expression "A LITTLE LIGHT". Such an expression is called a phraseological unit.

Phraseological units cannot be composed yourself, you need to remember them. The more you know them, the more accurate and you can express your thoughts better.

Most phraseological units used in a figurative sense. So, in Ancient Rus', the combination of the words “BEAT BAKLUSHI "meant to break a stump of a tree into small pieces - baklushi, from which were then made into spoons, because do very simple, easy work. AT the present expression “BEAT FUCKING” - to spend time idly, sit back.

Words on the board:

The more the student will to know phraseological units, the more accurately and figuratively he will be able to express his thought.

These tests have been tested on students in my classes. Based on the data obtained, a correction was made students' knowledge.

This work with tests allowed to provide timely assistance to children in the assimilation of literary concepts in work with literary texts.

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