Formal and
Informal Assessment
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Riverton Elementary teachers will use a variety
of assessment tools with our students. We will use S.T.A.R., DIBELS,
QRI,Accelerated Reader, and a variety of informal assessments.
Alabama Reading
Initiative
http://www.ed.uab.edu/ari/
National Standards can
be found:
http://www.ncte.org/standards/thelist.html
Alabama Reading
Association
http://www.alabama-reading.org/
International Reading
Association
http://www.reading.org/
DIBELS (Dynamic
Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills)
University of Oregon
http://idea.uoregon.edu/~dibels/index.html
Southwest Educational
Development Lab.
A search able database for assessments, you can
fill out a form and it will give you a list.
http://www.sedl.org/reading/rad/
The Four Blocks and
Patricia Cunning ham
http://www.wfu.edu/~cunningh/fourblocks/
This is something one
school district has done:
http://stratmoor.harrison.k12.co.us/SHEHomepage/bestpractices.htm
CIRRI Archive of
useful publications
http://www.ciera.org/ciera/publications/archive/index.html
In case you have a skeptic...
Qualitative Reading
Inventory
http://www.pearsonptg.com/book_detail/0,3771,0321037863,00.html
Check out the Companion Website- I realize this is
a place to purchase, but what better way can you get an overview?
The Reading Lady
http://readinglady.com/
Balanced Literacy
http://www.rigby.com/classroom/balancedlit.htm
STAR and AR
http://www.renlearn.com/starearlyliteracy/default.htm
http://www.renlearn.com/Default.htm
The Pennsylvania
System of School Assessment Reading Assessment Handbook
http://www.pde.psu.edu/connections/reading/rahand.htm
Teacher Vision- student
assessment
http://teachervision.com/tv/curriculum/studentactivities/learningpod/newtour.html
A teacher in
Lafayette, IL put together this site for their teachers
http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/general_information.htm
Explore this site- he has chants, research, a bit
of everything that is in the Four Blocks.
Click on the book to go to a page.
Riverton/Mt.
Carmel
and ARI
Oral
Language Development
Phonemic
Awareness and Phonics
Reading
Assessment
Reading
Comprehension
Reading
and Writing Connection
Struggling
Readers
Kid's
Pages
Parent's Pages
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created by Janet Vines
May 2, 2002
updated
Madison County Board of Education