October: Assessing Readers in the Reading Workshop

Focusing Question: What are the most efficient Assessment Windows for generating information about our students?

Presentational Topics:

1. How do we currently assess readers?
2. Making Assessment Efficient
3. Developing an Effective Array of Assessment Windows

Professional Article for Discussion: Three Paradigms of Assessment http://www.frankserafini.com/PubArticles/ThreeParadigms.htm

Handouts: Assessing Readers in the Reading Workshop

Recommended Podcast: 8 Standardized Tests

Learning Experiences:

1. Analyze the types of information you already collect on your readers.
2. Try one of the assessment windows from the list that you have not used before to understand your readers.
3. Create a system for organizing observational records.

Professional Resources:

Dismantling the Factory Model of Education: http://www.frankserafini.com/PubArticles/Dismantling.htm

The Standardized Classroom:

http://www.frankserafini.com/PubArticles/StanClassroom.htm

Classroom Reading Assessments Book from Heinemann:

http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02712.aspx

Accelerated Reader- A Critique

http://www.frankserafini.com/PubArticles/ShortArticles/ARstatement.htm

Thinking About Standardized Tests as a Genre:

http://www.frankserafini.com/PubArticles/ShortArticles/StTestsGenre.htm