PISD Assessments DRA Overview

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PISD AssessmentsDRA Overview

• Developmental Reading Assessment
• 2007-2008

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Purpose

• To enable primary teachers to systematically
  observe, record, and evaluate change in student
  reading performance and to plan for and teach
  what each student needs to learn next

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Components

• Series of leveled stories
• DRA
• DRA ALT
• DRAII
• Observation Guides
• Directions, questions, prompts
• Space to mark behaviors and responses

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One CampusTwo Kits

• Range of books
• DRA A-44
• DRAII A-40 (extra level 40 titles)
• Oral Accuracy, Fluency and Rate
• DRA Accuracy Fluency on observation guide
  rate (counts EOY Grade 1 and beyond)
• DRAII Scored together on continuum (rate included
  level 14)

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One CampusTwo Kits

• Comprehension score for leveling
• DRA Top score is 24 (below 16 is frustration)
  all responses are oral no vocabulary concepts
  are tested
• DRA II Top score is 28 (below 20 is frustration)
  responses are written on level 28 Vocabulary
  concepts included (accounts for the 4 point
  difference)

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Uses

• Focus on instruction
• Strategy lessons
• Flexible groups
• Guided Reading
• Centers
• Reporting
• Use PISD form on line (linked to ELA/ARI)

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Recommended Testing Levels

• Follow guidelines on testing instrument regarding
  when to stopDRA II is explicit on the test for
  DRA I stop when comp falls below 16 or accuracy
  falls below 94 or rate falls below target
  (starting EOY 1st grade 60 wpm 2nd grade 70 wpm)
  or child reaches recommended grade level (Kinder
  EOY2 Grade 1 EOY16 Grade 2 EOY28)
• Once a child reaches grade level
• use running records with alternative
• materials to guide instructional
• decisions

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Testing beyond grade level

• NOT recommended
• If you do choose to test beyond grade level, do
  NOT test beyond these levels
• Kinder - Level 8
• Grade 1 - Level 28 (equivalent to end of grade 2)
• Grade 2 - Level 38 (equivalent to end of grade 3)

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Levels A-2

• Teacher selects text
• Teacher introduces text
• Teacher reads 1-2 pages
• Child points and reads rest of story teacher
  takes record of oral reading
• Teacher asks response and preference questions

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Levels 3-16

• Teacher or student selects text
• Teacher introduces text
• Child looks at pictures and tells what is
  happening or identifies topics within
  informational text
• Child reads story aloud teacher takes record of
  oral reading

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Levels 3-16 (contd)

• Child retells the story or information read
• Teacher asks response and preference questions

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Levels 18-44

• Teacher selects a range of 3 texts
• Child previews and chooses one
• Teacher introduces text
• Child reads first 2-4 paragraphs aloud
• Child predicts what will happen in story or
  identifies topics within informational text

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Levels 18-44 (Contd)

• Child reads complete story in another location
• Child retells story or shares information from
  text
• Teacher asks response questions
• Child reads selected portion of text aloud
  teacher takes record of oral reading
• Teacher asks preference questions

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Paper Work

• Individual Student Form (On line link from
  Curriculum/ELA/ARI)
• Revised forms available (DRA II)
• Class Summary Form by grade level (also on line)
• Revised forms available (DRA II)

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Now What?

• Use scores to drive instruction
• Consider the three cuing systems
• Semantic (meaning does it make sense?)
• Syntactic (structure does it sound right?)
• Graphophonic (visual does it look right?)
• Build on strengths to develop skills that have
  not been mastered

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Questions?