Reading Assessment for Effective Instruction Workshop

Levels: K–12
Length: 1 day
Audience: K–6 classroom teachers, 6–12 intervention and reading teachers, English learner and special education staff, site and district literacy administrators, and literacy coaches

Description

This workshop explains basic principles and terminology of assessments used to plan classroom instruction and provides participants with the knowledge they need to select, administer, score, and interpret the results of assessment measures in each of the main areas of reading instruction. Participants practice administering key assessments and using assessment results to plan instruction. This workshop may be joined to the Reading Academy or taken separately.

Participant Outcomes

• Identify the four major types of assessment and their purposes.
• Become familiar with the content and administration of various assessments in phonemic awareness, decoding and word attack, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
• Understand how to use assessment as a basis for instructional decision making.
• Understand the role of assessment within a three-tier comprehensive literacy model.