Reading Self-Assessment

Students are provided with opportunities to self-assess and reflect on their own progress. Areas for self-assessment include fluency, decoding, and monitoring for sense. Student reading logs can be used to track reading volume, stamina, genre selection, and appropriateness of text level. Students use rubrics to monitor their progress and set their own goals. Teachers work with students to foster meaningful and effective self-assessment. Reading conferences are a great time to teach this skill to students.

Self-Assessing for Accuracy

Readers rely on a three part system to ensure they are reading words accurately: Meaning, Syntax, and Visual (graphophonics). When reading, they self-assess by asking themselves three questions: "Does that look right?" (Visual) "Does that sound right?" (Syntax) and "Does that make sense?" (Meaning). Noticing these errors is how students learn to self-correct and grow as readers. They use a variety of strategies to solve the tricky words, and reread the sentence until all three cueing systems are resolved.

Self Assessing for Comprehension

Students rely on a variety of tools for self-assessing their comprehension. Learning progressions provide students with a set of expectations for every grade level. Students use these tools to determine their current progress, but also to see what lies beyond their current scope so they can challenged themselves and grow. In addition to learning progressions, students can use reading checklists, anchor charts, pre-assessment sample responses, reading logs, videos, performance assessments, etc.