Pre-Assessment for Differentiation - Reading Grade 1
What is a Pre-Assessment? Before we go deeper into this important topic, I believe it is relevant to understand what Pre-assessments are. To pre-assess, a student is a great way to tailor your instruction for your students. It helps a teacher to understand what the students know about a specific topic/subject before creating a lesson, which saves more time for teaching. When combined with summative assessment methods, it's an effective way to show student growth. Pre-assessments should be: - Quick - Able to check student's understanding before teaching a topic/subject - Not graded - Focused on the topic/subject To better pre-assess, and place each student in a correct reading level, I will use Reading A-Z online platform, which consists of a three-part assessment process: Part 1: Students will read the following Benchmark Passage (level C), and I will capture their reading behavior on Running Records; Part 2: Students retell the text, and I will use R...