Framework of Assessment

I have chosen reading as my content area. Reading is one of our main focus in school because a child can acquire much language as it reads various stories. It is best to assess a child's reading in both an informal and a formal setting. This way a teacher can get a true picture of the child's skill in reading.

Basic Reading Inventory would be probably the first assessment that I would use with my students. This assessment is done informally and the student would read a short passage in one minute, while I indicate what mistakes the child makes. There are certain indications that you mark on the words to show exactly what was made. This assessment it great for your records because it shows how many words the child can read in one minute. It can also use as to show improvement as the child learns new words throughout the year. Lastly, it helps me as a teacher to know exactly what the child is struggling with so we can target it throughout the school year.

Another informal assessment that I would give my students, would be comprehension. This will be done once a week usually on Fridays. We will work on one story a week, we will read the story, or maybe interact out the story. Then on Friday, we will read the story: either together or have the students read it by themselves (depends on where the student is) then the students will answer the questions by themselves. Lastly, we will go over then questions together and will talk about which one they got right and which ones they got right. This will help me know what the child is processing from the story.

Lastly, one of the formal assessment that I would use The Abecedarian Reading Assessment. This reading assessment addresses Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Awareness, Alphabetic principle, Vocabulary, and Decoding. This is a great formal assessment because it assesses all the aspects that can come into play with reading. It will help you target the gaps in the child's skill when it comes to reading. For the phonological and the phoneme awareness sections, would a great area to assess what the child is hearing if s/he is wearing a hearing aid or a cochlear implant. However, children who don't have amplification, you can use visual phonics as an adaptation. Here is a link that tells you more about the assessment. http://www.balancedreading.com/assessment/abecedarian.pdf

There are many different kinds of reading assessment and they all do their jobs in assessing the child's skills and they all show you the gaps for that child. These are just a few of those assessments.