Does anyone know of a website where students can create their own books, so students can publish their own stories?
Philomena Marinaccio-Eckel, Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Teaching and Learning College of Education 2912 College Ave. ES 214 Davie, FL 33314 Phone: 954-236-1070 Fax: 954-236-1050 -----Original Message----- From: Judy Shenker <jshen...@lcc.ca> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Sun, Sep 12, 2010 8:33 am Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] assessment and data To assess phonemic awareness I use the CTTOP's - Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. I am also looking for a good listening comprehension assessment - I have been using the listening subtest of the Durrell Test of Reading Difficulties but find results are heavily dependent on student background knowledge. Judy -----Original Message----- From: mosaic-bounces+jshenker=lcc...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Hoffmann Dale Marie Sent: Sat 9/11/2010 7:10 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] assessment and data Do you have any assessments for phonemic awareness and listening comprehension that you could share? Thanks Dale Marie On Sep 11, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Conner-Righter, Mary wrote: > Our school district implemented district assessments in grades K - > 3rd about > 8 years ago that were created by a team of Title I teachers. Over > the years > these teacher-created assessments have changed to meet standards. > We now > have our own district assessments for the following areas: phonemic > awarenesss, listening comprehension, reading comprehension (F and NF), > writing to a prompt, accuracy and fluency, science, social studies, > and > math. The language arts/reading assessments are given 3 times a > year. The > content area ones are given at the beginning and end of the year. > Years ago > when we first started these assessments, the Title I teachers spent > hours > inputing student scores into a Microsoft Word table. Several years > ago we > adopted the 4 Sight assessments in reading and math for 3rd - 12th > grades. Success for All maintains a database for these > assessments. We > also adopted DIBELS for K through 2nd. Data collected by the U of > Oregon's > system. This is administered by the Title I teachers three times/ > year with > progress monitoring ongoing. We are hoping to implement our own > database > this year which will organize all the data from the different > assessments we > give. > > Mary > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.