This week’s theme..

ASSESSMENTS!

I am getting ready for quarter 1 report cards. ( UGH!)

(Not my FAVORITE thing to do!)

So..we give an ELA reading & writing assessment from our reading program.

This “benchmark” assessment populates the report card automatically.

The report card itself is designed “around” the assessment.

The CCSS  standards are “interwoven” into the assessment.

What that means is, I cannot verify FROM THIS ASSESSMENT if a student has mastered a common core standard or not.

When I give my grades, I want to be sure I am accurate

& I want parents to know what we

( ALL OF US ) are working on!

So…MY TURN!

I give each of my student’s

INDIVIDUAL assessments to determine if they have mastered Quarter 1 CCSS standards

OR

if they are in DIRE need of MORE HELP!

(From me, an assistant, intervention teacher, parent, etc)

So here are a few examples of the assessments I GIVE…

Running Record

 As they are reading I record what words they can read ( with a check mark) and missed words           ( looking for what skills did they usse & what are they lacking).

I check their independent reading forms from IN CLASS & AT HOME.

We have BOTH.

I check their past spelling tests. Are they working on words families?

Do they know their HFW?

( Usually kids who DO NOT know their HFW are struggling readers.)

So …crazy times!

Relax …remember…it’s about helping kids!

IF I can find out what they DON’T KNOW

I can help them learn it

so they can always

GET   BETTER!

Just a head’s up….

most of my assessments came from my

WHAT IS BALANCED LITERACY?