Sarah asked if anyone knew of a "quality comprehension assessment". Ellin Keene developed one last year and it's very good. It's called, Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies and it is published by Shell Educational Publishing. General "think aloud" assessments and rubrics are provided, as well as something for each of the comprehension strategies (inferring, determining importance....). She provides them in the form of verbal as well as written - which makes their use flexible dependent upon the situation for the teacher. The rubrics themselves are great teaching tools and I think they even help the teacher better understand what they should be looking for with each strategy. This assessment is so important because it makes us accountable for teaching the strategies and it holds kids accountable for internalizing them. It gets us away from teaching the strategies for the sake of teaching the strategies. This assessment shows us if our strategy teaching is actually leading toward understanding - which is the key behind ALL OF THIS!!!
Carrie K-8, Illinois _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
