Bethany Elementary Reading Assessment Plan

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Bethany Elementary Reading Assessment Plan

• Evaluated By
• Danning Chen
• Michael Price
• Ashley Wescott

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Reading Program Overview

• Walk to Read (school-wide)
• Daily 5
• Read to Self
• Read to Someone
• Word Work
• Listening
• Writing
• Café Menu
• Double-dose of reading (ELL students)
• Data Teams (school-wide)

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Assessment Overview

• DRA
• QRI
• DIBELS
• OAKS
• Woodcock Muñoz (for ELL Students)
• Informal Observations

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DRA

• Administered in the Fall and Spring
• Assesses fluency, comprehension, student
  engagement, and writing (writing for grades 3-5
  only)
• Used to level classroom libraries

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DRA continued

• Advantages
• Measures multiple facets of reading
• Reliable tool
• Valid tool

• Disadvantages
• TIME!
• Writing piece difficult for ELL and resource
  students
• Large gaps in 5th grade levels

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QRI

• Administered mid-year
• Condensed version of DRA
• 4 Inferential questions
• 4 Evaluative questions
• Useful as a quick inventory
• Advantages and disadvantages similar to DRA

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DIBELS

• Administered 4 times each year for upper grades
• Administered at least 2 times each year for
  Kindergarten
• Assesses fluency

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DIBELS continued

• Advantages
• Quick snapshot
• Can compare data
• More accurate for Kindergarten

• Disadvantages
• No comprehension
• No intonation
• Punctuation overlooked
• Reinforces poor reading habits
• Controversial validity

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Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (OAKS)

• Administered at the end of the year
• State Reading Assessment
• Not useful for curriculum planning

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Woodcock Muñoz

• Administered in Fall and in Spring
• Used for ELL students
• Measures English language proficiency level

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Success Rate

• Bethany has an Exceptional School rating
• All staff interviewed believe that the schools
  reading program is successful

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Changes?

• If you could change any aspect of Bethanys
  reading program or assessment tools, would you
  and what would it be?
• Get rid of the Harcourt curriculum
• No Basil readers!
• Administer DRAs less frequently
• Change how DIBELS is used
• Should only be a starter tool
• Should not dictate reading groups