This is an excellent conversation that needs to continue:)
Sure. It has been a while and I hope I remember accurately... those of
you who
use DRA, pipe up if you see I mischaracterize the DRA. We thought the
text was
more interesting and better quality in F and P. We liked the idea of
comprehension conversations scored with a rubric rather than firing
questions at
kids or asking for a retelling. It seemed to mirror what we want to be
going on
in classrooms and was a more natural way to assess comprehension. We
liked
the?optional writing piece?(or drawing in the early levels) as a way to
get
at?understanding of text in a different way.?We liked the additional
resources
that came with the kits...an example- a guide for teachers that shows
what the
characteristics of kids are at particular levels and what teaching next
steps
might be. There are great staff development videos that teachers can
watch to
learn how to use the kit. There are dozens and dozens of different
supplementary
assessements like phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary knowledge
etc
etc.? It has a calculator which is a timer. You press a button when a
child
starts reading and then one when she stops. Enter the running words,
number of
errors and self corrections and the calculator will spit out
percentages, self
correction rates and words correct per minute.
And... if I remember correctly, it is cheaper.
Jennifer
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From: cnjpal...@aol.com
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 4:36 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Running Record/Reading Level Question(s)
Jane
Sure. It has been a while and I hope I remember accurately... those of
you who
use DRA, pipe up if you see I mischaracterize the DRA. We thought the
text was
more interesting and better quality in F and P. We liked the idea of
comprehension conversations scored with a rubric rather than firing
questions at
kids or asking for a retelling. It seemed to mirror what we want to be
going on
in classrooms and was a more natural way to assess comprehension. We
liked
the?optional writing piece?(or drawing in the early levels) as a way to
get
at?understanding of text in a different way.?We liked the additional
resources
that came with the kits...an example- a guide for teachers that shows
what the
characteristics of kids are at particular levels and what teaching next
steps
might be. There are great staff development videos that teachers can
watch to
learn how to use the kit. There are dozens and dozens of different
supplementary
assessements like phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary knowledge
etc
etc.? It has a calculator which is a timer. You press a button when a
child
starts reading and then one when she stops. Enter the running words,
number of
errors and self corrections and the calculator will spit out
percentages, self
correction rates and words correct per minute.
And... if I remember correctly, it is cheaper.
Jennifer
Jennifer, Can you compare the Fountas and Pinnell kit to DRA2?
Thanks! Jane in SC :-) (The state with the runaway Governor!)
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