Hey friends! Reading intervention has ALWAYS been a large part of our day, but I feel like in the last 3-4 years, it’s become so much more. General education teachers are now as skilled as reading specialists in some areas! We have so much thrown on us that we pick up and learn different strategies and ways to teach students. Our country has become so “data driven”…but is this a good thing or not??Thoughts? I’d love to hear how you feel about data!  Sound in on my Facebook page. Today I want to write about how reading assessment drives instruction.
I’m working on a series of blog posts regarding Reading Intervention. For today, I want to discuss assessments.
Reading Assessment in the Primary Classroom
The purpose for assessment is to develop a base line for your students. When I first started teaching, I would only test on sight words or rhyming words. I would test in chunks. Now, I do the entire reading assessment at the beginning of the year. This gives me the entire picture of where the student is at and a great place to start with my instruction.
One thing that has helped my students so much was focusing on what words they needed to know in order to advance to a certain levels. We have to assess the students word knowledge before beginning instruction, so these tools are very helpful because everything is right there for you. The tools will help you know how to use your reading assessments to drive instruction.Â
