Learning Opportunities

With such a variety of reading assessment tools (DRAs, the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Kit, IRIs, etc.) currently in use in schools around the province, the missing piece seems to be: “Now that I have this assessment data, what do I do with it?”

Join us as we zoom in for a closer look at information gleaned from observations, conversations with students, written responses, and informal reading inventories to determine how to best support our emerging, developing, and fluent readers. We’ll touch upon effective school-wide or divisional reading assessment plans for instructional leaders, and spend the majority of our time discussing analysis, interpretation, instructional plans, and delivery.

Let’s talk about yearlong reading strategies we can use to target specific decoding and comprehension needs of individual students, small groups, and the whole class. We’ll paint a picture of how to teach these strategies effectively in classrooms with a Daily 5 structure and/or during read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and independent reading lessons.  

If you have it, bring your Benchmark assessment data, your running records, and your anecdotal notes from conversations with readers (or borrow our sample student assessments). Let’s demystify this data and discover exactly HOW we can help each reader expand his or her thinking, strategy use, and skill base for decoding and comprehending a variety of texts. 

Strategies explored today will come from the work of Harvey & Goudvis, Zimmerman & Hutchins, Fountas & Pinnell, Oczkus, and Schwartz & Bone, among others. 

This session is being offered on a cost recovery basis.

Target Audience

Classroom Teachers Grades 1-6, Resource Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Literacy Leaders, School Administrators