Formal and Informal Assessment

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.
 
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created by Janet Vines

May 2, 2002

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