Week 4 Assignment

Assignment #1: RTI

My understanding of Response to Intervention (RTI) is that it is a new approach to special education. It is used to provide support and intervention activities to struggling students. By using the RTI method, there should be a limit or reduction of reading difficulties. The concept is that the students that are struggling with their reading comprehension are to receive intervention to create an instruction to assist them. The RTI would be developed to suit the needs of the student. The teacher and teaching professional will assess the student to measure the progress, if any. The intervention programs will create an additional instruction program to structure extra learning opportunities to the student. The only issue is that many teaching professionals will use the results for the present issues, but it should future learning of the student.

Like all programs, the RTI was used to help identify learning disabilities in the students that possessed them. Progress data is collected and continuously to make sure that the instruction the student is receiving is correct and sufficient. Once the results are given, then the correct and necessary services can be established. This model allows for the students to receive the best instruction for this learning situation.

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Assignment #3: QRI - 5

Qualitative Reading Inventory 5 is an informal reading activity that consists of many activities to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the reader. The assessment is used to put together several reading assessments that will show the progress and where the student needs assistance. The QRI-5 gives many assessment options for the evaluator/instructor to use. The form gives more leverage to getting the most accurate results for the student’s progression. The many assessments allows for a wider range of evaluation and better results. The word lists allows for the assessment of accuracy of word identification and the speed in process. The passages increase in difficulty to assess the level of comprehension of the student. The QRI-5 gives more accurate progression information than single assessment methods.

Week 3 Assignment

Assignment #1: Response to Article Readings

The articles that I read about Response to Intervention and The Assessment of Thoughtful Literacy in NAEP, they are very insightful to assessment situation. My son is in a special education and collaborative tea class. He had assessment in ELA because he needed the intervention to assist in his comprehension of text. I believe that intervention is necessary for more than just struggling children. The additional instruction that Mark received helped him to put his level of comprehension and fluency back in perspective. But, he needed the continued intervention, he needed to have the same effort placed in his future learning. The Assessment article described that the student should be familiar with the genre of reading, this allows the student to relate to the reading. They can draw the information from the characters because they relate to the reader or someone they know.

The results of the other states and the assessment percentages were interesting. The fact that California had the lowest testing rate compared to Texas, who had the highest were insightful to the education levels in the states. We all assume that we teach the same, but the different standards compete with the education gained in any state. I think that the Assessment article was expressing the demand that is needed in the education field for reading. I think that the RTI article expressed the fact that intervention is the best assistance to help a struggling or slightly in need student.

Assignment #2: Assessment to Measure Students' Outcomes

The assessments that are used to measure students' outcome are ones that really detail the needs or improvements of the students. Recording logs are used to determine the reading level of the students, and to maintain a progress report on the development. Also anecdotal notes would be good for all the sample tests that were presented. The teachers can use the anecdotal notes will help to observe and record the progression of the student over a time period.

Sample Lesson #1: The assessment that would be effective for this lesson is the Peer Assessment. The groups will be given a list of criteria to follow. They will evaluate the recordings of the other group, then they will record the evaluations. The teacher will collect all the information that is submitted by each group for their story assessment and the group assessments. The teacher will then put together a report on the information that is gained.

Sample Lesson #2: The assessment that would be good for this lesson would be the anecdotal notes. The teacher will take notes on each student during their presentation. This assessment will give information on the students that can be monitored throughout the year. The students will select the proposal that they want to present, then the teacher can use the comprehension and fluency that they put in the presentation.

Sample Lesson #3: The assessment that would be used for this lesson is to create a Blog to help with the podcast episodes. They can record the episodes to follow and they can describe how they created them. The progress of the project will be recorded in the blog and the students can create the blog in their own style.

 

Assignment #3: QRI5

• The QRI5 is an informal reading inventory that measures the comprehension and word identification of the students, also what word they can not correctly identify.
• The purpose of using the QRI5 is to pinpoint the students' reading levels, what the groups reading sessions can be arranged, or to select the appropriate reading materials.
• I would say that the Running Records are similar to the QRI5.
• I think that the QRI5 is a great way to assess may different aspects of reading for the students.