Re: [MOSAIC] Reading level

2012-07-25 Thread Tina
adult, and teen book reviews From: Cox, Daniel d...@aldenschools.org To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Tue, July 24, 2012 2:40:13 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] Reading level Does anyone know of a reading level assessment I can give my

[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