Assignment:
Read the following in the textbook:
No Child Left Behind: Comprehensive Reading Instruction
Classroom Reading Assessment
Understanding Reading Instruction
Organizing for Effective Comprehensive Reading Instruction
Oral Language Assessment and Development
Answer the following questions:
1. What do you believe are the purpose of literacy assessment? What are the principles of effective classroom reading assessment? Write a learning log entry in which you reflect on what you see as the potential value of assessment to you as a teacher.
2. Why does shared reading provide such a valuable context for working with words? How shared reading can be used to teach and reinforce literacy skills and strategies? What is guided reading? Why should you include guided reading in your balanced literacy program? What types of follow-up activity ideas have you used successfully across a variety of texts?
3. What is a Running Record? Name five reading assessment strategies that can be used to inform instruction.
Textbook: Understanding Assessing, and Teaching Reading. A Diagnostic Approach 7th Edition by Michael F. Opitz and James A. Erekson.