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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucinda Marcello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [LIT] reading test > Karen, > Where would you find such a test? Thanks. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:09 PM > Subject: Re: [LIT] reading test > > >> Look at Gates-McGinite. It has 2 parts- vocab and comprehension that >> combine into a total score that equates to a grade level/month. They >> have >> S and T versions so you can do a pre and post. The vocab takes 20 >> minutes >> and I think the comprehension 35 minutes and is whole class. (It can also >> be done on scantron) >> I don't know that I would place a child based on it, but it works as a >> quick screener. >> >> Karen Onyx >> Carusi Middle School >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 8:16 PM >> Subject: Re: [LIT] reading test >> >> >> I am interested in this thread as our district really isn't satisfied >> with >> STAR >> testing, but we really need the initial screening >> process to be whole class. >> >> Lori >> >> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:47 , Heather Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> >>>Do you want like an Informal Reading Inventory? Or something that all >>>students in a class can take at once? >>> >>>On 2/25/07, Jan Kammert [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm looking for an easy to administer and score reading test for middle >>>> school students. It has to be a test that would take less than 50 >>>> minutes >>>> for students to complete, and of course it has to yield accurate >>>> results. >>>> >>>> It would be great if the test was also free or very inexpensive. >>>> >>>> I doubt the results of the test my school has used in which students >>>> who >>>> seem not to understand grade level fiction scored as 12+ grade-level >>>> readers. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any suggestions you can offer. >>>> Jan >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >>>> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. >>>> >>>> Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>- Heather >>> >>>"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of >>>man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments >>>fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; >>>new races build others. But in the world of books are >>>volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet >>>live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were >>>written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men >>>centuries dead." --Clarence Day >>> >>>"While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little >>>good evidence exists that there's any educational substance >>>behind the accountability and testing movement." >>>—Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds >>> >>>"When our children fail competency tests the schools lose >>>funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase >>>funding. 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