School District of Beloit Universal Screener PD for 4K, K, and 1st Grades Early Literacy Behaviors Assessment from Fountas and Pinnell’s Benchmark Assessment System 1 (edition 2)

Universal Screener Defined Assessments that are: brief and easily administered valid and reliable standardized evidence-based readily available They are conducted with all students or targeted groups of students to identify individuals who are at risk of academic failure. Identified students will likely need additional or alternative forms of instruction to supplement universal instruction.

One Assessment With 2 Purposes Universal Screener Universal screening data, provided by classroom teacher, reveals which students that may be academically at risk. These “flagged” students should receive further diagnostic work from the Reading Specialist. Common Assessment The data derived from the Universal Screener will inform our instructional decisions for ALL students. The Screener is to find a singular piece of data about what a student needs. And the common assessment is about looking at ALL the data to inform instruction for ALL of the students.

We have purchased…B.A.S. Running Record – Diagnostic systems Optional Assessments ~ cut scores (within edition 2), standardized Notice, Teach and Prompt for Early Literacy Behaviors

Explicit Instruction Matters!

Explicit Early Reading and Writing Instruction You turn pages left to right as you go through a book. You read the left-hand page before the right-hand page. A word is a group of letters that means something. There is white space on each side of a word, and no space between letters in a word. You match one spoken word to one written word. A sentence is a group of words in a line, left to right, that means something. The sentence ends when you see a period.

The Early Literacy Assessment Within the Classroom 4K – ALL students ~ Every Quarter …to inform instruction Kindergarten ~ ALL students EVERY Quarter Until they secure all 10 points First Grade ~ Any student/NEW student every Quarter Until they secure all 10 points

Screener Schedule September December March May 29 - June 8

Video Demo

Find it in … The READING ROOM Early Literacy Behaviors Assessment Kindergarten Universal ScreenerKindergarten Universal Screener (Rubric) First Grade Universal ScreenerFirst Grade Universal Screener (Rubric) 4K - 1 Universal Screener Class Record Grid …and many more!