eAssessment

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eAssessment

• Literacy Assessment for the 21st Century

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Westwood Elementary School

• Sonya Vannoy, Literacy Specialist
• Melissa Ashley, Kindergarten Teacher

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K-2 Literacy Assessment

• Running Records
• Retell
• Targeted Assessments
• Spelling and Writing

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Running Records

• Accuracy
• Miscue Analysis
• Fluency

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Retell

• Comprehension
• Literal
• Inferential

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Targeted Assessments

• Book and Print Awareness
• Phonemic Awareness
• Others

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Spelling and Writing

• Primary Spelling Inventory
• Developmental Writing Rubric

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Traditional Assessment

• Takes time away from instruction
• Generates additional paperwork
• Record keeping
• Calculations
• Uses large amounts of paper
• Excessive use of school copiers

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What is e-Assessment ...

• A quick and easy tool for creating, tracking and
  analyzing student and class reading progress
• Allows you to administer a full range of
  observational assessments on a handheld device
  and analyze the results via the internet.
• Designed to
• Save you time and paperwork
• Help you communicate results with parents and
  other staff members

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What Do We Need to Use EAssessment?
PDA
mCLASS Software
Phonics Black-line Masters
Teachers and Students
Membership to Wireless Generation
Benchmark Books
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Performing a Running Record
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Retell
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Phonics
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Fluency
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... and How does it work?
1. Create assessment data on your PDA
2. Synchronize or HotSync your PDA to transfer
the data to your desktop.
3. View and analyze your assessment data at
www.handheldassessment.com
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Assessment Guides Instruction

• We discovered the need to provide explicit
  instruction in
• retelling
• authors purpose
• making connections

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Retelling - Fiction
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Non-Fiction Retelling Hand
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Front Page News
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The Daily Spectre
A Lump of Coal

• Dreams
• Ghosts
• Youngster

Miser Sees The Light In the Nick of Time
Local man experiences a mysterious life changing
event. Overnight the eccentric miser changed into
a generous philanthropist and uses his advantages
to create happiness in other peoples lives.
Other Stories Miracle Cure page A3 Elderly Man
Sees Apparitions page E2