Parents,
The
children have made great growth in their reading! Hip, hip, hooray! J I am so proud of
them, and I thank you for all of your support with their reading at home. I wanted to send with your Home Connect letters a brief
explanation of the results. Of course we
can go over this in more detail at our conference!
At the beginning of the year, midyear (now), and at the end of
the year your student completes 3 mclass tests: The DORF, the Daze and the
TRC. This may help to explain the “white
reading/running men” on your home connect letter that tell you if your student
needs most support, some support, goal, or advanced. Please also look at the
information on the side next to the colored areas with the “reading men”.
The DORF (you will
see 3 “reading men” for this test on your home connect letter) focuses on
reading fluency. This is a measure of
how many words your student is able to read correctly a minute. The number of
words per minute is taken on three different stories and the middle (median) score
is recorded. There is also an accuracy portion of the DORF where your student
tells me all that they can remember from each of the 3 passages. They get an
accuracy score based on how many correct words they recount when retelling the
story. The last “reading man” tells of the quality of their response meaning
how many details did they remembered, were the details in the correct
sequence, and did they tell me the main idea of the passage.
The Daze is a 3
minute paper/pencil assessment that is given to the whole class whereas the
other 2 tests are done individually with me. Students are given 3 minutes to
read a passage. After approximately
every seventh word, the student is asked to pick a word from a choice of 3
words to provide the correct meaning in the sentence. Students are scored on the number of correct
words chosen.
The last, biggest, most important, and longest test is the TRC. In this test your student reads an
entire story (fiction or nonfiction). I record “mistakes” made and what type of
mistakes were made such as leaving a word out, adding a word, self correcting
themselves, repeating a word or two, etc. I also add in what cues or why they
made the mistake—it looked like the word, it didn’t change the meaning, it
grammatically still made sense. I then ask them 5 questions orally about the
book in which they can refer to the book to help them with their answers.
Usually 3 questions that have a specific answer and 2 that are open ended. Lastly your student your student must provide
written responses to 2 questions about the book. Written responses are a big
part of reading comprehension. J
I hope this explanation is of help. Please let me know if you have any
questions. Please continue to encourage
your child to read a variety of texts each night for their twenty-five minutes
of nightly reading and also alternate each night between fiction and
non-fiction. Please have your child take
their time and give their best work on the nightly reading comprehension
homework—as this is great practice on the skills we are working on in
class.
Thank you for all of your support! I feel so blessed to be working with such an
amazing bunch of students and families! J
Carol Ann Pyburn
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