Embedded Files
The following resources are meant to supplement the reading comprehension program in your classroom. After establishing the needs of your students using the District Literacy Assessment (DLA), you may use the attached resource materials to target one or more of the specific skills that your students may be lacking in the following areas: Predicting, Comprehending and Responding, Using Text Features, Inferring, Making Connections, Asking Questions, Expressing Opinions, and Visualizing.
Rationale
Assessment of reading comprehension should be ongoing and should be accompanied by relevant and timely assessment of student progress. Students should be assessed in a meaningful way; that is, using a formalized assessment of reading comprehension that provides information about student ability that is broken down into component parts. Additionally, this assessment should also reflect student strengths with individual reading strategies, so the teacher is able to cater classroom instruction accordingly.
In order for students to experience success, they must be able to successfully transfer the literacy skills they learn across the content areas of the curriculum. In order for this transfer to take place, all teachers must utilize literacy strategies in their classrooms.
If a combination of formalized and ongoing assessment is being utilized in a classroom, a teacher is much more likely to have an accurate picture of an individual student’s capabilities, and as a result, will be better able to cater classroom instruction to meet the needs of the students.
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