Literacy assessment

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Literacy assessment
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Literacy assessing learning

• What is assessment
• What should assessment be based on- page 29
  Morrow has the objectives of assessment- what
  are they?
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Principles of classroom assessment

• Inform improve teaching
• Help teachers discover what children can do, not
  what they can not do.
• Have a specific purpose
• Provide insight into the process of reading
• Help identify zones of proximal development
• Basement procedures should not supplant
  instruction
• The only Truly valid competent assessment is
  individual assessment

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Assessment should inform improve teaching
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Examples of assessment

• Authentic
• Examples
• Running records informal inventories
• Examples
• Portfolio
• Explain
• Standardized test
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Concerns with standardized testing

• What are the issues?
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How do you prepare students for standardized test?

• Examples
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• Why do we need standards while guiding oral
  written language development K- 12th grade?
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Standards in language arts

• Reading
• Writing
• Listening
• Speech production discrimination
• Vocabulary
• Verbal expression

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Standards continued

• Phonological awareness
• Print book awareness
• Letter knowledge early word recognition
• Motivation to read
• Knowledge of literacy forms
• Written expression

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Activities

• Small group-
• 1. do question 3 page 51 (Morrow)
• 2. List 10 workshop ideas for a parent workshop
  you would hold to inform the parents about your
  instruction assessment methods
• 3. Based on the readings of Martens Chapter 3-
  how can I read and write
• A. How do children learn to make sense of written
  language?
• B how does interacting with literature help
  children in oral written language development?
• C. List 4 ways you can encourage writing in Pre
  K- K grade.