1. Assessment That I Have Used
Assessment is a crucial element that teachers have to apply for an effective literacy instruction.
In my course as a CST student teacher, I have learned some ways to assess students that will
help me to teach language arts effectively.
The first one that I would like to start with is the Elementary Interest Inventory. This assessment
helps teachers to identify the interest of the students in reading. If teachers have this
information, they can make recommendations for independent reading assignments as well as
for the selections of materials to be used in class. The next assessment that is of great
importance is the Graded Word Test. This kind of test is named San Diego Quick Assessment
and is helpful for teachers to measure a student’s reading ability and determine whether the
text is at the Independent Level, Instructional Level or Frustration Level for the student.
Teachers then will plan an effective lesson to improve reading skills. Another assessment that I
know well and will implement in class is the Oral Language Survey in which students are
evaluated their student’s oral language by interviewing them and listening carefully to their
language and by observing them in conversations with other students and adults. Running
Records is an effective way to evaluate the different reading levels students have. It often takes
less than five minutes to listen to a student reads a passage, and this gives teacher so much
information to help this student improve reading and writing skills.