At our middle school we used to use the QRI but discontinued because the kids had seen the passages numerous times in the elementary grades (they were given as silent passages with kids answering quesitons in a written format and also given to whole classes at a time). We have been using the Ekwall Shanker but not with everyone. We first screen all kids with the Aimsweb R-CBM and MAZE and using this information as well as other measures (we also use Read 180 and SRI lexile scores-not sure I believe this is a totally valid assessement, but one more "tool" I can use to determine where my students are at) place kids in interventions. If a student is resistant to the intervention, we discuss other options at our weekly data team meeting. We might change the intervention or if those options are exhausted we will only administer the Ekwall at this point to dig deeper. It is time consuming and difficult to administer and teach (they will sometimes get us a half day sub, but that really isn't enough time to give it and analyze all the information) so we really would like to find a diagnosis tool that might be quicker but still provide the information we are looking for. The Ekwall does have several subtests to assess phonemic awareness/phonological awareness/knowledge of syllables and nonsense words/oral/silent/listening passages, etc. and even goes low enough to assess emergent literacy skills. Any suggestions of other iri/assessment tools would be greatly appreciated.
Amy reading 6-8 _______________________________________________ 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.
