"Watch and Learn: Assessing Reading Skills"
I noticed that at the beginning of the video, the young
girl was asked to read a scaffolded word list. This tells me that they were
assessing her word identification skills. I found it interesting that this student
was overall so high achieving, but with so much trouble with fluency and
comprehension. It only makes sense that one affects the other but usually there
is not such a large discrepancy as the one mentioned in the video. That makes
me wonder if there was a reading disability that was affecting her ability to
decode. I’m also curious about her writing skills and how her fluency issues
affected the length and quality of her writing.
I agree that assessment must be ongoing and formative to
maintain progress and measure the effectiveness of implemented strategies. I
believe that assessing students’ informal writings such as journal entries and
quick writes is a good way to assess reading comprehension and language skills.
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