I agree with the Fountas and Pinnell assessment kits. A committee here in my district looked at them over the summer. Not only do they have both a fiction and nonfiction passage for each guided reading level, there are many other assessment options included besides the running record passages.(Like phonemic awareness, sight words, etc.) I particularly like how the comprehension is scored. There are not traditional comprehension questions...instead you use a rubric to judge understanding based on a conversation you have with the student about what they have read. There are some prompts to get you going. I also like that in the higher levels there are prompts to get at the child's understanding of author's choices and author's craft...these kits definitely move beyond the lower level regurgitation of the text type assessment. I guess you can tell we really like these kits. Jennifer In a message dated 10/20/2008 7:42:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I live in the middle east and teach in Kuwait at an american school. We have a reading resource teacher for each grade 2-5 and two resource teachers for grade 1. We have been looking to get one reading assessment for all of the resource teachers. We are focusing on the Riby benchmark or the DRA primary and intermediate kits. Does anyone have any input to help us make a decision. Thanks Kahty **************BUY Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD today! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1209326865x1200539441/aol?redir=http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html) _______________________________________________ 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.
