Hi all, I seem to be more of a lurker than a participant these days but am enjoying and learning from all your posts. Can anyone tell me more about the San Diego quick test? We are using DRA 2 in our district and I love it so much better than the earlier version. The fluency and comprehension questions tie so tightly with a workshop approach and units of study . This year my alternative eval is to create a toolbox to be used to support findings from DRA. One of the components is to assemble a group of informal assessments that would narrow the choice in beginning the dra testing situation to quicken the testing process. Since our kindergarten does not share previous year's dra levels... as a first grade teacher with a differentiated group of students ...the choice of levels is widespread. Although district has cited several benchmark books for levels within the first grade cut off... many of the kids read well beyond.....Without opening up a can of worms about when the cut off should be at any particular grade level because I have Joetta Beaver's thinking on that... I would like to be able to pull a just right benchmark book quicker than usual..... We have found using some assessments like Richard Gentry's monster text or the Ohio word text narrows the playing field a bit.... That's why I am looking for San Diego quick test. In the end I predict my toolbox will have a few extra assessments that zero in on the right DRA benchmark book... then we will use TC primary assessment with beebop books to help confirm when we move a kid from a level and finally use the TC indicators for each level to develop some matrix of goals and... strategies to accomplish those goals... at each DRA level. I am very excited about the idea but probably will be seeking lots of advice and confirmation from you all. Any thoughts? Pam
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