Assessments

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Phonemic Awareness Assessment Materials Needed Directions for the P.A.S.T. Test Sheet to record answers Disks, counters or some type of manipulatives Color pen: Black Blue Red Green

What it looks like to give P.A.S.T This is an auditory test ONLY

Skills Tested on the P.A.S.T Concept of Spoken Word Rhyme Syllable Isolation of Sounds Blending of Sounds Segmenting Sounds Manipulating Sounds

Recording P.A.S.T. scores 5/6 = mastery Enter the date achieved into My Data First Paper Copy My Data First on the computer

This screen lists all of the Assessments in My Data First. You must activate tests so that you can enter the information My Data First

You will click on Submastery Value and enter number correct from the assessment on this MDF page

After you have typed in the number correct under Submastery Value, this is the view of the screen you will see.

P.A.S.T Class Profile from My Data First

Phonics Assessment Student reads words aloud. Teacher marks on the answer sheet High Frequency words are tested List A – 100 words List B – 100 words List C – 300 words

Phonics Skills in My Data First Consonant Sounds Vowels CVC words CVCV Long vowels High Frequency Words Digraphs Blends Diphthongs

Words Their Way Spelling Assessment Give students a spelling test. On this response sheet or in the computer you would circle to the text features students identified for each word.

Words Their Way – Spelling Assessment

San Diego Quick Reading Level Assessment Reading Level of the student

My Data First Data Page with Phonological Awareness, Phonics, San Diego Quick, the Comprehension and Fluency tests Activated.

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Summary Assessments for Literacy First P.A.S.T. – Phonological Awareness Skills Test - ongoing Phonics Test - ongoing Comprehension could be Reading 3D for Grades – 3 times a year San-Diego Quick Assessment – Reading level- beginning of the year Words Their Way – spelling inventory- ongoing Fluency – 3 times a year

Record Data On response Sheets In the computer program – My Data First

Why? Because Data Drives Instruction Use the data gathered to form Flex Groups, Word Study groups and Station Activities