Whether or not you assess on a cold read or a warm read depends on your purpose for assessment. If you want to see how a child will do in class, then assess the way they are taught. If you want students to preview all text before they read, then you want to have them preview before assessment. If you want to see how kids do without accessing background knowledge, then perhaps you would want a cold read. Assessment literacy comes into play yet again. What is the purpose for the assessment? Then set up assessment conditions to match the information you want. Jennifer L. Palmer Instructional Facilitator, National Board Certified Teacher (EC Gen) Magnolia Elementary School (Home School) 901 Trimble Road, Joppa, MD 21085 Phone: (410) 612-1553 Fax: (410) 612-1576 In EVERY child...a touch of GREATNESS!!! Proud of our Title One School! Norrisville Elementary School 5302 Norrisville Rd White Hall, MD 21161 Phone: 410-692-7810 Fax: 410-692-7812 Where Bright Futures Begin!!!
________________________________ From: mosaic-bounces+jennifer.palmer=hcps....@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Dear Sent: Tue 10/11/2011 10:07 AM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] fluency measures Hi Mary, I guess I would ask what information would be gained by doing a warm read. If you have the students preview the passage before hand will you be getting a true glimpse of how they approach text independently? I believe a warm read is appropriate if you are asking students to read aloud text aloud in front of their classmates. I think we educators are under a lot of pressure to prove that kids are making progress. I always try to ask myself" "What is the value in what I am doing? How will it benefit me and the students?" Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Conner-Righter, Mary <mrigh...@pennsvalley.org> To: Mosaic <Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 12:57 am Subject: [MOSAIC] fluency measures Just a question...We use DIBELS oral reading fluency passages to measure students' reading rate in grades 1 and 2. These readings are considered 'cold' reads because the students do not preview or practice the passage. We also have district assessments which include a fluency/rate passage for grades 1-4. The discussion has come up that perhaps we should do a 'warm' read with these passages to compare to the DIBELS - for grades 1 and 2. I read in the posts that there are many different assessment products being used in schools. Are the fluency measures mostly done as cold or warm reads? I also wonder if the fluency rubrics such as Hasbrouck and Tindel or Shinn have been normed on cold or warm reads. It seems it would be important to assess according to how the rubric was normed. Thank you for any input, 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
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