1. Fountas & Pinnell Training TK-2nd Grade September 18, 2015
Wendy Hernandez, Supervisor of Preschool and Early Learning
Carol McEwen, ISC-McKinley
WELCOME
Sign-in
Handouts
Introductions

2. Table Activity-5 minutes
Introduce yourselves at your table.
Share one highlight of your school year so far.

3. Agenda 8:15-8:30 Sign-in/Handouts
8:30-8:45 Welcome/Introductions/Agenda/Objectives
8:45-9:45 Oral Reading Assessment Level I Non-Fiction
Open the box
Running Record and Comprehension Conversation Practice(DVD)
9:45-10:00 Break (approximate)
10:00-11:00 Benchmark Assessment System 1 Overview
What’s in the Box?
Pages to flag
Beginning of the Year
11:00-11:30 Next Steps/Parking Lot/Evaluation
Back at your school site
Multiple Measures-Resources/Contacts for Additional Question
Parking Lot/Evaluation
11:30 Lunch

4. Learn the purpose and rationale for testing
Training Objectives
Learn the purpose and rationale for testing
Become familiar with your testing kit
Practice testing procedures

5. Benchmark Assessment System 1 Kit
Purpose
Open the box-5 minute exploration

6. Fiction/Non-fiction (back of book) Hanging Files for leveled books
What’s in the Box?
Leveled Books
Levels A-N
Fiction/Non-fiction (back of book)
Hanging Files for leveled books
Student Folders (initiated in K)
Calculator (optional)
3 DVDs

7. Continuum of Literacy Learning Grades PreK-2 Student Forms Booklet
What’s in the Box?
Assessment Guide
Continuum of Literacy Learning Grades PreK-2
Student Forms Booklet
Assessment Forms

8. Oral Reading Assessment-Level I
DVD: Administering the Benchmark Assessment (4:43)
Review Scoring and Coding at-a-Glance
Assessment at-a-Glance p. 331
Color Handout-Table
Level I Assessment Form
DVD: Tutorials-Scoring and Analyzing Oral Reading Behaviors
All About Koalas-7:38 (oral reading), 3:52 (comprehension conversation)

9. How did your assessment compare to the DVD?
Table Discussion
How did your assessment compare to the DVD?
What thoughts do you have about the assessment process?
Table Groups Share

10. Break!
15 minutes

11. Assessment Guide Pages to flag p. 3 Text Gradient (and handout)
p. 17 Should I assess both fiction and nonfiction reading?
p Coding Errors and Self-Corrections in Oral Reading (also on back inside cover and tag handout)
p Guiding the Comprehension Conversation (See Note regarding use of book)

12. Assessment Guide Pages to flag (continued)
p. 32 Finding Independent, Instructional and Hard Texts
p. 39 Three Levels Defined
p. 40 Finding the Three Levels
p Finding an Instructional Level When the Numbers Don’t Line Up Perfectly
P. 181 Appendix B-Using the F&P Calculator/Stopwatch (optional)

13. p. 143 Assessment Summary Form
Assessment Forms
Pages to flag
p. 143 Assessment Summary Form
P. 154 Where-to-Start Word Test Instructions and Recording Masters
(Students read word lists from Student Forms Booklet p. 1-5)
p. 331 Assessment-at-a-Glance (inside cover)

14. 1st due date: October 5th (1st-2nd) Dec. 18th (Kinder)
Beginning of the Year
Students with score from Kinder or 1st grade vs. New students
AR conversion (loaded on district website)
Sight word portion of benchmark
Sight word list in F&P
Testing windows
1st due date: October 5th (1st-2nd)
Dec. 18th (Kinder)

15. Multiple Measures/Resources
F&P
Super Kids, AR, Benchmarks, Common assessments
Teacher Observation (anecdotal notes)
Resources/District Website (ed services- professional development-elementary
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16. Next Steps Back at your school site
Get scores from 1st or 2nd grade (Illuminate report and white folders)
Scores missing? Central student or not?
New students-prepare to assess
Additional Questions?
Refer to Assessment Guide
DVD Professional Development-Overview-How to Use This DVD
Contact ISC/Grade Level Teachers at school site

17. Illuminate Report For 1st and 2nd grade teachers
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18. Parking Lot/Evaluation