______________________Assessment in Reading___________________
Assessment can be done before, during, or after a lesson or skill is taught. This is one of the only ways you will teach children effectively. Teaching without assessment is like putting a cake in the oven and never checking on it or pulling it out of the oven. You will never know if it’s baking or getting burnt to a crisp!
There are many different avenues to assess your children in reading. Some of the many ways you can assess them is through a student interview, listening to them read, Dominie, running records, anecdotal records, and QRI. Once the assessment is done the data must be used. Following any assessment there must be a plan for instruction using the results found from the assessment. It’s very important for you, as a teacher, to assess your child aside from the computer reading tests. This way you can hear your student read and walk through assessing them. By listening to them read you learn so much!
Another important aspect in assessment is making sure that each child has enough books that are on their level to read. Teach them how to pick “just right books” from the library and also go through and hand pick some for them. Placing them in cubbies on their desk or in a designated part of the room will grant them easy access to rich literature.
Finally, it’s important to continually assess your children so that you can accurately meet the students’ needs!
______________________Parental involvement____________________
One of the ways that parents can be involved is by reading to and with their child daily. One of the ways that I will help do this is by having a weekly list of books that they can read with their children. These will be books that they could “check out” from me or the public library that is “just right” for their student. Also, I will send home a weekly update of things going on in the classroom that they could help with. Things that they can help with can be anything from helping tear out workbook pages to decorating for a class party. Lastly, I will direct them to this website and show them websites that they can go through with their children and work together on those skills either at home or the public library computers.
