Developmental Reading Assessment DRA2 Grades K 3

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Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA2) Grades K
3 Grades 4-8 FBISD 2007-2008
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• What is the DRA2?
• A method for assessing and documenting students
  development as readers over time
• Assessment is done during one-on-one reading
  conferences using a leveled set of texts

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DRA2 assumes students

• are learning that reading and writing are
  reciprocal processes
• are immersed in rich literate environments
• hear a variety of literature read aloud
• read independently for a sustained period of time
• respond to literature in a variety of ways
• receive reading and writing instruction in whole
• and small groups

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DRA2 Assesses Reading Behaviors in an interactive
one-on-one reading conference

• Step 1 Assess Reading Engagement by
• Teacher asking oral questions OR
• Students completing the reading survey
• Step 2 Assess Oral Reading Fluency by having
  student read aloud specifically selected books
  and recording his/her
• Accuracy
• Phrasing
• Expression and Rate
• Step 3 Evaluate Comprehension by
• Student retelling story or writing a summary
• Student answering questions to determine how well
  he/she
• understood the story (literal and inferential)
• Step 4 Analyze student reading behavior to
• Identify strengths and needs
• Areas that need improvement

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Purpose of Using the DRA2

• Observe, record, and evaluate students reading
  abilities
• Determine independent reading level and students
  strengths and needs within that level
• Guide continued reading growth
• Identify trends among readers for instruction
• Establish school and district wide standards for
  evaluating student progress
• Align assessment with district curriculum to
  provide a common
• language between grade levels and campuses
• Create a forum for sharing strategies among
  teachers

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DRA2 is looking for characteristics of good
readers

• Good readers
• Select appropriately leveled reading materials
• Read and sustain their reading for longer periods
  of time
• Preview a book before reading it and predict what
  might happen
• Read aloud quickly and smoothly
• Use a variety of strategies
• Read for meaning
• Read and function within a literacy community

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DRA

• Teacher selected text
• No student writing
• Student read and retold text
• only. No other level of comprehension was
  assessed.
• No reading engagement questions or reading survey
  given
• Teachers did not assess students on their
  predictions
• Text Levels A-44, fiction only

• Student selects a text that seems just right from
  a range of texts chosen by the teacher
• There will be a written response on levels 28 and
  above
• Teachers will assess student responses in 3 major
  areas Reading Engagement, Oral Reading Fluency,
  and Comprehension (comprehension is comprised of
  predicting, previewing, oral and written
  retelling, making connections, reflection,
  nonfiction text features, interpretation, and
  meta-cognition)
• Students respond to questions about what they are
  reading and their preferences
• After reading aloud a designated passage,
  students predict what they think will happen or
  questions they think will be answered.
• Text Levels A-80 Nonfiction books are now
  included at levels 16, 28, 38, and 40-80

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How many times each year is the DRA2 administered?

• Kindergarten
• Optional at the Beginning and Middle of the year
• All students at end of year
• First Grade-Second Grade
• All students at beginning, middle, and end of
  year
• Third Grade-Fifth Grade
• All students at beginning and end of year