Reading Assessment- For Tracking

[Guest]

Hi ya, please can anyone share ideas they use to assess childrens reading in Year 1. I have been told to do reading conferences with my class each term and level their reading to go on a tracking grid. Does anyone have any ideas or know of something I could read to get me started?

Thanks

[Marion]

We used NFER Nelson test in the past but it was just words rather than text. Last year our new head introduced Salford sentence reading tests from Y1-6

I havent used it but it levels and gives a reading age and can be tracked from year to year.

[Guest]

We use Cliff Moon book bands. The band colours relate to NC reading levels, starting with W (working towards level 1) so it's easy to track progress.

[Guest]

Thank you some good starting points

[Guest]

As a school we've realised that whilst we are good at getting children to 'bark at print' we're less good at developing their high level reading skills (comprehension etc). To try and remedy this we're introducing 9 levelled bookmarks, starting at Level 1 level_1.doc(2c, 2b, 2a, 3, 3+, 4, 4+, 5). The bookmarks are written in childspeak (we hope!) and are intended to act as guides for any adult who hears a child read, enabling them to focus on what the child needs to do to 'improve'. To counteract the 'if they do it once they've got it' mindset the bookmarks will be marked off with triangles - each example of 'mastery' will form one side of the triangle. We've also tied this in with our guided reading, with the same five catergories for each level (grammar and punctuation, interpretation and response, knowing how texts work, attitudes, and one more that I can't think of at the moment!) although the foci (is that the plural?!) is differentiated.

[Susan]

That looks good Moose.

I have used some reading characteristics, from bookbands I think, to track reading progress.

[Marion]

We also use the bookmarks for everyday tracking but the head wants a twice yearly assessment for Y1-6

[Lorna]

The book marks look great...

 

Little cheeky i know but can anyone tell me where to get them from or can someone upload them for me plaese?

[Guest]

We've made ours up ourselves. My head's heavily into selling stuff at the moment! I'll ask him if these are free!

[Marion]

Ours came from the LA literacy advisor they were on the web site but not sure if they still are.

[Guest]

This is the guidelines for our Level 1 guided reading if that's any use Level_1.doc. It was 'Use of Context' that I'd forgotten in my earlier post.

[Guest]

If the link works, we have a Year 1 reading Journal format which is on our local ngfl website

 

 

www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/literacy/getfile.php?src=311/Year1ReadingJournal.pdf

 

Hope it is useful to you...they do them for all year groups right from Reception

Edited September 21, 2006 by Guest

[Marion]

http://www.durhamlea.org.uk/resources/inde...&_Where=All

 

There are also bookmarks for KS2 on the same site.

 

There are also bookmarks for writing.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone, I feel much better about all this now.