A Vision For the Future: Literacy Learning Resources for May and June

During May and June focus on year end reading assessments

Year End Reading Assessments Videos and Lessons, Set 1


Adaptations and Assistive Technology

Rather than creating a display in class, students can upload their work to Freshgrade 



Research
Jane Jones highlights the fact that portfolios represent a common practice for assessing progress both in elementary and highschool education in her article Portfolios as ‘learning companions’ for children and a means to support and assess language learning in the primary school.  These documents show learning progress both to the teacher and to the student, and with a portfolio,  “assessment is not [an] add-on to learning but an active process that can engage learners themselves in the assessment process in a legitimate and appropriate way, developing critical thinking skills (Jones, n.p.)”

Writing Conventions Videos and Lessons, Set 2

As with September, assess your student’s reading levels.  


Video: How to find Words Correct Per Minute (WCMP)



Video: Running Record Exemplar



Lesson: Timed Reading Passage


Adaptations and Assistive Technology

Provide students with the reading in advance
Come prepared with a range of reading levels
Print the reading sample in large font

Research

It is good practice to assess your students’ reading levels periodically throughout the year.  Typically you would assess their reading in September/October, December/January, and May/June.


Works Cited

Freshgrade Cares. Freshgrade Connect - Introduction Video. 2020, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_P-FAl31GY. Accessed 22 June 2022.

Jane Jones (2012) Portfolios as ‘learning companions’ for children and a means to 

support and assess language learning in the primary school, Education 3-13, 

40:4, 401-416, DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2012.691374

Oise.utoronto.ca. 2022. BALANCEDLITERACYDIET :: Balanced Literacy Diet. [online] 

Available at: <https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Home/index.html> [Accessed 30 May 2022].



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