As for the DRA, we have found that there are LOTS of gray areas. Also, the
assessment can take quite awhile to administer. We do the test 3 times a
year and I have 40+ students. I feel like I lose a good bit of
instructional time on, once again, assessing. However, I would be open to
another op
I agree with the Fountas and Pinnell assessment kits. A committee here in my
district looked at them over the summer. Not only do they have both a
fiction and nonfiction passage for each guided reading level, there are many
other
assessment options included besides the running record passa
You might want to consider Fountas and Pinnell's new assessment, like the
DRA in a lot of ways.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Kathy Garzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I live in the middle east and teach in Kuwait at an american school. We
> have
> a reading resource teacher for each grade 2-5
I live in the middle east and teach in Kuwait at an american school. We have
a reading resource teacher for each grade 2-5 and two resource teachers for
grade 1. We have been looking to get one reading assessment for all of the
resource teachers.
We are focusing on the Riby benchmark or the DRA pri
