Course Description:

This course discusses the reading process and the factors that influence its development, the role of assessment to inform and adapt literacy instruction, the evaluation and use of formal and informal assessment tools for individual learners and groups of students, and the interpretation and communication of assessment results. A 30-hour practicum is required.

Friday, October 14, 2011

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What a week this has been! So many demands to meet. Breathe in, breathe out...We can do this! I have really enjoyed working with kindergartners and first graders for the observation survey. They are so eager to answer my questions. I really enjoyed watching my student do the writing vocabulary. I explained that they had ten minutes to write as many words as they could. He tried to impress me with some big words but struggled with the spelling. I hope I have completed each assessment correctly. I spent time with a reading specialist at a local school. She was very busy setting up new reading groups as well as ELD groups.

She has a lot of paperwork that goes along with her job as a reading specialist. I haven't used Dibels before and at their school they use both the DRA and Dibels. I want to use her as my mentor but she has to look at her work load and see if she can balance a full load. We all know how tough that can be. I've enjoyed this class and am sad to see it end.


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