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.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Posting to Blogspot

In order to post to the blog, you have to have a blogger account (a google account). If you don't already have one, you will need to create one. This is pretty easy. Just follow the link that was in the invitation you received to the blog. It should walk you through how to create an account. When creating the account, please use the email address you gave to me in class, as that is what I used in order to grant you authoring access.

Once you have your account and password, simply go to the blog and click "sign in" in the upper righthand corner of the page. Sign in with your username and password. After this, you should have posting access. In the upper right corner of the blog page click on "new post" and start typing away!

If anyone has difficulties, let me know and I'll try and help you troubleshoot the process.

Your first blog entry is due by class time this week.
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  1. Toby LSeptember 12, 2011 at 9:46 PM

    Developing a Plan for the first weeks of school

    I am finally able to differentiate between the approaches to assessment of reading. This feels great to have some momentum back when it comes to assessing my students. I have an opportunity this year to work with a class of struggling readers who I can tell already have some serious attitude problems when it comes to approaching any level or genre of text. My first days have been spent setting behavior expectations, building community and watching how they are handling and reading from a wide selection of non fiction and fiction texts. I am very interested to learn how the reading interviews turn out tomorrow so I can begin to plan how I am going begin my assessments. With real poor attitudes around reading I can’t help but wonder how much repetetive assessment and “low” intervention groups have played into their less than favorable attitudes around reading. Chapter 5 in the Clay text was really helpful and I have a new found respect for the patterns and unique info running records reveal about the individual. I also enjoyed the u-tube video’s on the live binder.
    Personally, finding the appropriate time in the elementary school classroom was the issue with my road blocks in independent student assessment.

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