I am a reading teacher for K-1. My own guideline is when the child has shown they can use the skill/strategy when they're reading connected text, then they're got it. I work with the kids who are not picking this stuff up easily. The whole deal to me is that they can read real stuff for meaning. We have established benchmarks in my school but...if a child is "testing" that they have certain skills but aren't using those skills when reading, I look for the disconnect.
We screen with dibels which I can take or leave. How stressful it is for the student seems to relate to how stressed the teacher is about the outcome. I heard at a workshop once that "dibels should be like using a toothpick to check if a cake is done, not a blowtorch." But again, the whole goal is to be reading real stuff for real meaning. I like the Stieglitz assessment of phonemic awareness; which has its own kinderarten benchmarks. Success on it correlates pretty well to how the child is doing. Cathy -----Original Message----- From: Randal Lichtenwalner <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 10:26 am Subject: [MOSAIC] Early reader assessments At what point (reading level) do you stop assessing Early Literacy Behaviors, hyming, letter names/letter sounds, phonemic awareness, sight words, etc.? We on't have a set guideline -- when teachers feel that students are reading, they imply stop sing these sub-tests and only use the benchmark reading assessment program running record). I'm looking for some guidelines that say something like "Once child is reading at a level C (GRL), then you can stop __________." Anybody ave district or ublished parameters? thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [email protected] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://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.
