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Assessment Journal #4

While the students are busy with working on something as a class such as writing or independent reading, the teacher pulls one student and has them read to her one of their leveled reading books out loud to her. This first grade classroom has many reading resources and leveled readings from 1-18. The students are all at different levels and this is a helpful way to assess students individually. By having the students read aloud to the teacher she is able to pick up on their strengths and weaknesses as a reader. The teacher is then able to assess to see if the students are reading to move up to the next leveled reading books. Unfortunately this is a difficult type of assessment for the teacher to do very frequently because she still has the rest of the class. During this process the teacher makes anecdotal records on how the student is reading, their speed/frequency, accuracy, and whether or not the students are learning how to reading without having to use their finger to point to the words. Although this type of assessment is difficult to find the time for, it is extremely important to be assessing the students’ reading individually as much as possible. I think that this is one of the best assessments to use for reading because it allows students to have one on one time with the teacher to see how they are improving and what areas they need to still be working on at home and at school.