There are a number of ways to assess literacy skills for students in the classroom. One form of assessment could be using the ‘Daily Five’. The Daily Five includes the following: reading to self, reading to a partner, listening to someone else reading, word work, and working on writing. As a teacher, I would observe the student as they went through the steps of the Daily Five in order to have an understanding of where their literacy skills are at. I would observe the student as they read to him/herself and depending on how they were doing with this reading, we may need to change the student’s book to make it easier or more challenging for them. The same tactic would be used for when the student reads to a partner. After the student listens to someone else read to them, I could provide an activity which will tell me what the student was able to retain from the reading. A type of listening comprehension activity could be having a fill in the blank sheet that contains a paragraph from the book with blank spaces within the paragraph where words should be placed; the missing words will be listed on the page. The student’s job will be to listen to the story and fill in the blanks as the story reading goes on. Examples of word work for the student could be using matching exercises. We could have cut outs of long ‘a’ words and short ‘a’ words, and the student’s job is to put these words under the correct headings: long ‘a’ or short ‘a’. Some writing exercises that I could do with the students could be guiding writing exercises. In our journals, I will come up with the opening statement (ex. On the weekend I…) and the students will finish the sentence and try do as many sentences as they can while using proper grammar, spelling, and sentence structure. Another form of assessment could be using ‘Formal Assessment’. This could be me taking a student aside individually and having them read a story to me. This would be one on one work which will tell me which reading level the student is at (and if we need to return to more basic readings or move forward and challenge the student more with other books/readings). Other examples of Formal Assessment could be exercises where the student sound out words so that I know that they understand the sounds which make up certain words. This could be me asking them to sound out the word ‘cat’, and which sound the first letter makes, which sound the second letter makes, etc. In order to engage the students and have them excited about reading, I could make reading games or little quests for them to complete with their reading. These games or quests could focus on the cueing systems of reading (phonological, semantic, syntactic and pragmatic). For an example, a semantic activity could be having flashcards of an image from a story (ex. A ball) and the spelling of the word on the other flashcard (ex. ‘ball’). There would be multiple flashcards and they would be mixed up. The student’s job would be to match the image with the correct word. This activity focuses on the word’s meaning. The student could then re-tell the part of the story which included the image – this will tell me, the teacher, that the student is understanding what is being read to or by the student. These different forms of assessment will help me know where my students are at with their literacy skills and which future lesson plans I will need to utilize in order to continue to build upon these skills.
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AuthorHi there, my name is Tyler Armstrong. I am a Child & Youth Care Worker and I am studying at VIU to become an Elementary Teacher. Archives
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