Literacy Skills quizzes help teachers monitor their students’ development in 24 specific, higher order, reading, and critical-thinking skills from state standardized tests. This assessment provides diagnostic information within the context of reading real literature

1. Dana L. Houseman
Literacy Skills Quizzes:
A Different Way to Look at
Comprehension

2. Literacy Skills quizzes help teachers
monitor their students’ development in
24 specific, higher order, reading, and
critical-thinking skills from state
standardized tests. This assessment
provides diagnostic information within
the context of reading real literature.
Literacy Skills Quizzes:

3. • Initial Understanding
• Literary Analysis
• Inferential Comprehension
• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills Quizzes
Measure Four Domains

4. • Describing actions or events
• Identifying reasons
• Recognizing details
• Recognizing feelings
• Understanding dialogue
• Understanding sequence
Initial Understanding

5. • Initial Understanding
• Literary Analysis
• Inferential Comprehension
• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills Quizzes
Measure Four Domains

6. • Recognizing plot
• Recognizing setting
• Understanding literary features
• Understanding characterization
• Understanding historical/cultural
factors
• Understanding the author’s craft
Literary Analysis

7. • Initial Understanding
• Literary Analysis
• Inferential Comprehension
• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills Quizzes
Measure Four Domains

8. • Comparing and contrasting
• Drawing conclusions
• Extending meaning
• Making inferences
• Making predictions
• Recognizing cause and effect
Inferential Comprehension

9. • Initial Understanding
• Literary Analysis
• Inferential Comprehension
• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills Quizzes
Measure Four Domains

10. • Deriving word or phrase meaning
• Differentiating fact and opinion
• Identifying reading strategies
• Identifying persuasive language
• Responding to literature
• Understanding the main idea
Constructing Meaning

11. “It is strange that we expect students to
learn, yet seldom do we teach them
anything about learning”
Donald Norman, 1980,
Cognitive Engineering Education
Purpose and Rationale of
Teaching Critical Thinking

12. 1.The subject matter or discipline content
of the course
2.The correct way to understand and
evaluate subject matter
All Education Consists of Transmitting to
Students Two Different Things

13. • Large class sizes and student expectation
are the two primary reasons to rely on
multiple choice questions
• Multiple choice questions must ask the
student to perform some reasoning along
with memorization
Steven D. Schafersman, 1991
How Do Literacy Skills Quizzes
Address Critical Thinking?

14. Literacy Skills Quizzes
Quizzes are available for ATOS book levels
above 2.0 and up to 13.5
We currently have 806 quizzes in Ren Place.
To get a list login to RenPlace and Navigate to AR
then choose REPORTS. Next select SCHOOL
MANAGEMENT and then
QUIZ MANAGEMENT REPORTS
Choose the Literacy Skills Quiz List, you can sort
by Book Level, Author, Title, or Quiz number.

15. Literacy Skills Questions

18. • Students take after passing Reading
Comprehension quizzes
• Can quiz on same book three times
with different questions
• No points
• Quizzes help teachers plan instruction
and prepare students for high-stakes
tests
What Best Practices Are Associated with
Literacy Skills Questions?

19. What Does a Literacy
Skills Quiz Look Like?

20. • Literacy Skills TOPS
• Literacy Skills Class Summary Report
• Literacy Skills Chart
• Student Progress Report
Valid Reporting
Capabilities Provide
Diagnostic Information

22. Literacy Skills Summary Report

24. Student Record Report

25. In your group share one way
you can use Literacy Skills quizzes to
provide diagnostic information to
assess reading and critical-thinking
skills