Thanks for the tip.
-----Original Message----- From: Beverlee Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 6:38 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] STAR A FANTASTIC book is Bess Altwerger's Reading Fluency - Process, Practice, and Policy!! Anyone using DIBELS needs to read it, because the research and anlysis in this book are amazing. I suspect more books like this will come out and anyone having anything to do with policy needs to read each and every one of them. It's published by Heinemann. Bev > To: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:32:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] STAR> > IRA and other reputable educational organizations strongly discourage the use of reading levels as ways to report on achievement...for this reason among others. I think the main reason we use them is because they seem to be the easiest for teachers and parents to understand, but that is not necessarily the case. The simple explanation I give is this. When a fifth grader scores at the 12th grade level on something like star, it does not mean he is reading at a 12th grade level, it means if a 12th grader took this test, he would get a score close to this. (I think I am pretty close on this explanation, but would welcome further clarification. It is always an issue.) > > Funny this has come up today. I was asked by a first grade teacher to look at a dibels fluency prog. monitoring chart of a middle of the road reader...long story short... I ended up looking at the dibels website for information on how they determine reading levels of passages. (They rely mostly on the Spache readability formula.) I read the research on this on the website,and the dibels people used about 7 - 8 different formulas, and the first grade passages ranged from early first to fourth.?You can pretty much choose a readability level to fit your needs, it seems!! > > So, I agree...no accurate reading level!> > Cathy> K-5> DE> > > _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/ _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
