Ftce Reading K-12

Front 1

How can a teacher conduct ongoing assessment of reading development

Back 1

informal assessments (holistice observation) and Formal assessments (Yopp-Singer)

Front 2

What are the 4 characteristics that all good assessment tools have?

Back 2

1. a standard piece of work to be performed.
2. a standard way of creating the conditions for and administering the work to be performed.
3. standards of measurement so that teachers can know ow and when to make dependable meaningful comparisons.
4. a piece of work that can be found in the real world so that observations and assesments made by the teacher will have some relevance to the child's real world existance.

Front 3

What are the five categories that assessment tools can be organized?

Back 3

1.student profile-qualitative where teacher devises tests.
2. auditor discrimination and phoneme awareness tests students ability to discriminate sounds and segment words into phonemes. they test rhyming, blending, substitution of sounds and deletion of sounds as well.
3.emerging literacy assessments- includes enviromental prin assessments, name literacy, book handling assessments, language of experience assess., and stages of writing asses.
4.sight word assessments-may include Dolch sight word asses, the second language asses and BICS/CALP asses. These tests are designed to indicate the number of words a student recognizes upon sight.
5. Formal reading asses- may include basal end of unit testing and benchmark testing. Designed to measure a student's progress and done on a schoolwide or even statewide basis.

Front 4

Which of the five categories of assessment tools are best for testing kindergarteners? What are the tests used?

Back 4

auditor discrimination

Yopp-Singer and Shefelbine test

Front 5

What are the three types of reading levels that a teacher must be able to assess and what should be the accuracy rates?

Back 5

independent reading level is the level at which a student can read a text on his/her own and indicates a 95% accuracy rate.
Instructional level is leve that students can read with the assistace of a teacher and indicates an 85-95% accuracy rate.
Frustration level is the level at which students should't read and indicates an accuracy rate below 85%.

Front 6

What are some appropriate ways in which a teaher can use assessmet results appropriately if student needs some individualized instruction?

Back 6

some individualized instruction strategies, some group instruction strategies, some appeals for assistance from school personnel.

Front 7

What are the 4 major components/factors involved in a reading program when creating short and long term lesson plans?

Back 7

Reading
Oral Language-language play, group discussions, group story telling.
Writing-teachers may choose to have students trace letters, copy sentences from the board, or write stories of thier own.
Spelling-systematic spelling struction and spelling instruction in context.

Front 8

What is phonemic awareness and what should a teacher do if a student is struggling with phonemes?

Back 8

understanding that sounds (phonemes) are the building blocks of words. Students must learn to segment words into sounds and to understand word blending and rhyming.
Group and Individual learning activities are best to help struggling student.

Front 9

What are 7 tools that may be useful for assessing phonemic awareness?

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1. Letter recognition: teacher asks student to point out specific lettes or ask the child to read all the letters that he or she recognizes.
2. Letter-Sound Knowledge same as letter recog except asked the child what sound a particular letter makes or ask him/her to point o the letter that mnakes a particular sound.
3.Sound Walk : teacher may ask students to walk outside, noticing all the different sounds that they hear.
4.Yopp Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation:assesses student's ablility to break apart a word into its sound units, separately and in order.
5. Onset-Rime Tests: whether a student can identify which word out of a set of three or four has a different onset or rime.
6.Word-Blending tests
7. Ryhming Assessment- measures he student's ability to understand whether two words rhyme...ex: "cat" hat"

Front 10

What is the most basic of phonemic awareness activities?

Back 10

rhyming assessment