S5~Assessing+Reading

**Learning Outcomes:**

 * Students will learn to administer and score reading tests from the WJ-III.
 * Students will learn about the PALS and MPG assessments.
 * Students will practice plotting and reporting formal & informal evaluation data
 * Students will be introduced to a couple of cognitive frameworks for re ading development and how they are linked to available assessment tools.

Class Agenda

 * Quiz
 * More About the Woodcock-Johnson III
 * Oral Presentation  – Alex: PALS
 * Documenting Skill Deficits
 * Plotting NRTs
 * Documenting Insufficient Progress
 * Plotting CRTs
 * Oral Presentation – Katie: Balanced Assessment for Math (MGA)
 * Understanding Reading Constructs & the Big Debate
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The 4 Processor Model
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Florida Reading Model
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments

Assignments

 * S5 Essential Question - <span style="color: #2d4141; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Synthesizing what you have learned so far, provide information and examples explaining how a special educator can use assessments to document the two criteria for a Specific Learning Disability: Academic Deficits and Insufficient Progress.

> http://www.nefec.org/learn/teacher/secondary/readingModel/ask.htm and explore the videos, models, and text that explain its use. Once you feel like you have a grasp on the model's instructional implications, write a short explanation as to how this model can support a teacher in the assessment of reading skills.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Task 11** -Learn more about the Florida Reading Model - Go to


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Task 12** - <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diagnostic Decoding Survey & Evaluation Report Practice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: Administer the DDS to one individual. Record the test results and a brief summary of the findings onto the modified Evaluation Page below. You may use a pseudonym
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:Mod_DDS_EvalRpt Page..doc]]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Task 13** - <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WJ-III Reading Test Administration Practice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: Administer any 2 reading tests from the WJ-III. This time, you are asked to develop the chart of scores . Use the Modified Evaluation Report Page below. (Note: Because we are sharing the WJ-III Batteries, you will not have to submit the three WJ-III Assessment Practice assignments (2 each for math, reading,and writing) until you have access to the easels. All are due by Session 8).
 * 1) [[file:Mod_EvalRpt Page.doc]]