1. Activate Prior Knowledge What do we already know about the topic?
2.Make Predictions What might happen based on prior knowledge?
3.Use Context Clues What could this be talking about?
4.Locate Key Words Where are the important words?
5.Paraphrase or Retell What did I understand from the reading?
6.Sequencing What happened in the beginning, middle, and end?
7.Compare and Contrast How do these relate?
8.Think Aloud What don’t I understand still?
9.Visualize
Recall images, draw pictures, watch movies, etc.
Type of informal reading assessment
Purpose of the assessment
Setting
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Informal reading inventories (IRIs)
An assessment that consists of a series of graded word lists, reading passages, and comprehensive questions that the student reads orally and silently individually.
This assessment shows the development of oral reading fluency and word identification skills as well as comprehension through an on-going evaluation. They are used by teachers to help guide students to help improve on their skills. The records evaluate material difficulty, the individual progress of students, groupings of students and identify the struggling factors of their reading.
Notes that are written from observations made by the teacher about an individual student. These recorded notes are used to further asses the student on those areas in which he/she struggles including behavior, literary skills, comprehension skills, etc.
One-to-one but recorded during whole groups / small groups
An assessment that can be paired up with IRIs that allows the teacher to observe and record the extent in which the student uses coordination of graphic-sounds, syntactic, and semantic information from the sample text. From there, teachers can identify if the student has difficulties with semantic literacy, non-word and partial words, or structuring sentencing.
Showing student reflection, improvement and growth throughout their instructional time. This method involves the students in their assessment as it requires them to reflect upon their own literary growth.
What do we already know about the topic?
What might happen based on prior knowledge?
What could this be talking about?
Where are the important words?
What did I understand from the reading?
What happened in the beginning, middle, and end?
How do these relate?
What don’t I understand still?
Recall images, draw pictures, watch movies, etc.
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Informal Reading Assessments: Examples
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Assessing Language Arts
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Scoring Fluency: Considerations and Suggestions
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Authentic Assessment Toolbox