In our middle-school building, teaching "Reading" had formerly been the domain of the homeroom teacher. Within a typical day, a sixth-grade teacher taught four periods of one content area (e.g., science, math, social studies or language arts) and a fifth period of Reading.
This year, in response to mounting pressures to place literacy squarely on the map, our district has hired a literacy-certified educator to teach five periods of Reading every day. Now that we have a dedicated Reading teacher, we'd like to find a way to track our students' proficiencies in Reading throughout the year rather than rely on an annual state assessment. Our district uses the DRA for lower elementary and the QRI (some call it the IRI) for upper-elementary grades. Administering the QRI to 125 students would be far too labor intensive, eating up too much instructional time. Would anyone know of a Reading/Language Arts common assessment for 6th grade students which has met rigorous research standards and is a fair measure of students' capabilities? Thanks, Stacey McDonald Reading Teacher _______________________________________________ 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.
