I am not familiar with DIBELS Next but I am not a fan of DIBELs Sixth Edition
in Second and Third Grades.nbsp; I like DRA better because it tests
oral and silent reading plus it tests reading comprehension.nbsp; It is more
time consuming to have students complete the DRA but overall it lets one
I guess I understand that the powers that be don't trust teachers to assess
their own students. And I do get that it is useful to do some kind of
assessment where teachers can come together around agreed upon understandings
of what a child's strengths and needs are. So overall i get doing
Sally
First---to your last point! YES! Share some running records and miscues and
let's discuss the miscues and what it says about students. If you have some to
start us off with, go right ahead with my blessing. I think a lot of us would
find that a powerful learning experience.
Second... I
Hello all.
We will start our Opening Minds book study this weekend.
I am setting the following tentative schedule:
Chapter 1 and 2 the week of February 3
Chapter 3 the week of February 10
Chapter 4 the week of February 18
Chapter 5 the week of February 25
Chapter 6 the week of March 3
Chapter 7
I would love it if we could share running records/formative assessments and
teaching/point strategies/ where to go with the kiddos who just aren't moving.
We do not use dibbles anymore, but we did as a Reading First School ($funding)
Now we are back to reading workshop / CAFÉ-D5.
My new teachers
Dear Sally,
Possibly the most powerful assessments we educators perform are formative
assessments. They tell us...and students...immediately how students are
doing. Well-timed instruction, delivered at the point of error, goes
farther, faster than waiting on periodic district assessments.
I've utilized reading and writing workshop for a number of years and up
until this year, my choice in teaching method has always been fully
supported by my administration. However a recent administration switch has
me now in the position of needing to seriously defend my teaching
practices.
Just googled it. Here is a link. It is not the exact format I have - which I
liked better for appearance but it is the article. It's printed in a number of
places so google and you could pick the one you think is most appealing.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/96/?theme=print
The 6 Ts
Stephen Krashen has all the research. Go to his website. You can download
particular articles. You might ask his advice about which ones would be good
to hand to your particular audience/administration. He is a wonderful educator
helping all of us to support our best practices!!
You need Richard Allington's book - *What Really Matters Most for
Struggling Readers*. (
http://www.amazon.com/What-Really-Matters-Struggling-Readers/dp/0137057008)
It is filled with research that supports students reading everyday
on their independent reading levels. He also has research to
Check out Elaine Garan, both books and articles! Amazon and Google.
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On Jan 29, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Sally Thomas sally.thom...@verizon.net wrote:
Just googled it. Here is a link. It is not the exact format I have - which
I liked better for appearance but it is the article.
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