Re: [MOSAIC] Off Topic: Design of School Website

2012-07-24 Thread Betsy Lafontant
I was on a committee that revamped our school website. We stuck to these principles: 1. Figure out who your audience is - Students (current or prospective)? Parents (current or prospective)? Teachers? Keep them in mind when designing or redesigning the site. 2. Make it clean with only as few

[MOSAIC] assessments

2012-07-24 Thread Diana Rea
Anyone use Discovery Education for assessment for RtI or classroom analysis? If so what are the benefits? deficits? Diana ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to

Re: [MOSAIC] Off Topic: Design of School Website

2012-07-24 Thread Cox, Daniel
Sorry I sent a blank email yesterday!!! I would suggest the following: 1.) appealing colors (hopefully school colors) 2.) links to teachers personal pages (if applicable) 3.) principal, vp, nurse, attendance phone numbers on home page 4.) calendar of major school events (picture day,

[MOSAIC] Assessment

2012-07-24 Thread Diana Rea
Anyone use Discovery Education for assessment for RtI or classroom analysis? If so what are the benefits? deficits? Diana ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to

[MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Cox, Daniel
Does anyone know of a reading level assessment I can give my students at the beginning of the year? No budget, so I would be buying. Thanks Sent from my iPhone ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Sally Thomas
You can try the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. They have assessments k-8. Free. They have most everything you need - similar to DRA. Only cost is the K-2 books. Though they have the assessments they believe, and should, that the kids read the text in a good picture book. So it

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Carol
SDQA - San Diego Quick Assessment is a word decoding/recognition test that is free to print and use - just google it. It gives you a really quick and dirty grade approximation which I have found to be amazingly accurate given it's limitations. Once you're in the ballpark, and especially if you

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Casey1532
Try Readinga-z.com - even if you don't want to purchase the license, you can use their free items. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Cox, Daniel
Yes. 7th grade this upcoming year. Thank you. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Carol readingteacher...@yahoo.com wrote: SDQA - San Diego Quick Assessment is a word decoding/recognition test that is free to print and use - just google it. It gives you a really quick and dirty

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Cox, Daniel
7th grade this year Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Sally Thomas sally.thom...@verizon.net wrote: You can try the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. They have assessments k-8. Free. They have most everything you need - similar to DRA. Only cost is the K-2

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Cox, Daniel
Thank you! Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2012, at 4:31 PM, casey1...@aol.com casey1...@aol.com wrote: Try Readinga-z.com - even if you don't want to purchase the license, you can use their free items. ___ Mosaic mailing list

Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-24 Thread Sally Thomas
So it would work. Check out the website. These are the teachers who work with Lucy Calkins at Teachers College. Built by teachers who share our vision I think. And it's free. I love that. They also are beginning to build writing assessments - very very rich with samples. So check those out