1st - 3rd Grade Progress Monitoring & Benchmark Reading Level Assessment System
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Description
This bundle includes two resources designed to:
- Help teachers quickly and effectively determine each child's reading level.
- Share specific information with parents regarding how to support their child at each reading level.
Detailed information about each of these resources follows.
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Guided Reading Assessment Tool for Levels A - T {Save Instructional Time!}
As teachers, we want to get reading groups up and running as quickly as we can! But, first we need to know the approximate guided reading levels of each of our students so we can effectively create these groups.
We need a quick, effective way to determine each child's ideal Guided Reading Placement Level.
There are a couple widely-used tools available - but they are expensive and very time consuming. Using those tools, we sometimes have to complete several running records to find the instructional level of a single student.
It's part of a bigger issue - the struggle to balance having enough data to differentiate effectively while also preserving that precious instructional time!
This Text Level Estimator is fast and effective!
★ It takes less than 10% of the time it would take to complete running records on each student.
★ It's available at a fraction of the cost and uses much less paper.
Both reading accuracy and comprehension are considered in determining the student's Initial Placement Level.
Take a look at the preview to see how this works!
I hope you'll join me in advocating to save time while still getting the information we need to provide high-quality small group instruction for our young readers.
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Parent Handouts for Supporting Students at Guided Reading Levels A - P
The parent handouts educate parents about the best ways to help their child at the specific level he/she is reading at. This packet includes a separate Parent Handout for each Guided Reading Level from A - P.
I find that sending a handout home in my guided reading bags each time a child transitions to a new reading level helps parents more effectively support their child's learning.
Includes ideas for helping students:
-Develop voice to print match
-Use a combination of initial sounds, picture clues and meaning
-Develop sight word knowledge
-Engage in shared writing at home
-Learn to monitor their own reading
-Make connections to stories
-Work with cut-up sentences
-Read smoothly and with expression
-Find interesting details
-Recognize and use word chunks
-Think deeply about informational and literary texts
-Develop a fluent reading style
-Flexibly use word chunks with both long and short vowels
-Go on a "Long Vowel Scavenger Hunt"
-Work with compound words
-Become familiar with more complex text layouts
-Work with contractions
-Break words into syllables
-Ask and answer text-based questions
-Participate in rich discussions about books
-Use closed captioning to develop reading skills
-Much more
I also use many of these ideas in guided reading groups and literacy centers on a regular basis.
I hope you find these helpful!
Sincerely, Anne Gardner (NBCT, Literacy)
