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Assessment Experience #5
Steven Romero
Elementary Reading Attitude Survey Jennifer’s interest in reading is ranked as indifferent, which
upon close examination of the data and micronation suggests she has some low self-efficacy
when it comes to reading. This can be measured in her frustration level being at a seventh grade
read aloud level. She would approach reading through the breaking down words (sound,
blending, and syllables), but still struggled with annunciating words. The data in my second
comprehension. It revealed that she was at an “instruction reading level, “because she had an
adequate comprehension level and a reading accuracy that was considered too hard.
To further explore and understand Jennifer’s reading comprehension, I used three more
provided me with insights to what Jennifer’s reading frustration level. She was able to score a
‘independent reading level’ ranking on level 5 and 6 but was at frustration on the level 7
assessment. Once again, I saw her struggle to pronounce and breakdown syllables. She also
struggled to answer some complex questions that involved inferential thinking and therefore was
capped at the sixth-grade level independent. This tells me that she is potentially behind one year
in her reading comprehension and literacy skills. For my fourth assessment experience I focused
on Jennifer’s writing skills, to determine how I could aid in developing her current skillset. I
used two different assessment rubrics, which made me conclude that because of the subjectivity
of writing, a rubric needs to be intentionally aligned with the assignment. I had her do an essay
about her favorite hobby. I realized that some parts of one of the rubrics was not as useful as the
other rubric because of the criteria in this type of writing project. As a result, these assessments
were telling me slightly different stories about her writing proficiency. This caused me to realize
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that these rubrics could potentially be used to assess different standards. Keeping in mind that
student contributions in their writing is also depending upon their own personal lived
experiences and background, rubric criteria may need to be revised. For example, in assessing
through an integration of writing projects allow them to connect the topic to what they have
experience.
Creating action plan aimed at developing her phonemic awareness, through word
blending and word rhyming practice would aid in helping her develop her literacy, since
phonemic aware ness was a challenge for her that was revealed throughout the assessments. The
standard I would focus on to assist her in her literacy learning would be CCSS.ELA-
Literacy.L.7.3, which focuses on using language conventions for reading writing, speaking, and
listening. I strategized on providing many scaffolding using anchor charts and words walls would
be my means of developing her literacy in my math class and developing her word sense. Her
struggle with pronunciation in reading aloud could be addressed by using choral readings along
with word segmenting. She could benefit from practiced pauses between words in read aloud, so
she could read to sound them out accurately, without feeling rushed. This is appropriate
considering her ELL background, which could not only be used to aid in all student’s literacies
ability, but also provide access to her literacy skills in her first language. It would impact on her
writing because of a prior set of discursive practices that she could utilize in pre-writes and edits.
I believe this would align with performance goals of grade level literacy and writing
development that could potentially be more engaging for all types of learners and have multiple
is essential towards her overall literacy in reading interpreting and writing text. I learned that I
could have been more effectively in the selections of the type of assessments are used, the
example being with the personal essay I had Jennifer write and the parameters of the writing
rubrics that did not necessarily align with a personal essay. The strength of these assessments are
that they helped need to draw conclusions on what I can do to more effectively teach, and they
have also taught me how to consider the intersectionality of English language literacy and other
disciplines. Some of the weaknesses I saw in the assessments were that they do not incorporate
the whole student’s intellectual capacities nor do they incorporate student’s prior experiences as
Assessment Experience #1
My student student’s Pseudo name is Jennifer. She is twelve years old and is the oldest of
three and is a student at Jerome D. Mack Middle school. Based off of her prior year’s score on
the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), she is ranked as a 3 out of 5 on her level
of mastery of mathematics. I work as her Intensive Curriculum Unit ( ICU) period teacher for
Mathematics. This is a 30-minute time period designated to help students with Math or English.
She is one of twenty-two students in my ICU period. Our class objective is to help students raise
themselves 1 scale level on the SBAC exam for this 2019 school year. Jennifer is a 7th grader and
is bilingual in English and Spanish. She enjoys watching and playing soccer; her favorite Soccer
Team is the Chivas. Her reading interests revolve around topics about animals and historical
events, which I noticed in her “Student Interest Survey.” Jennifer appreciates topics related to her
Mexican heritage, which can be seen, as her favorite movie is Coco and vacation place is
Mexico. She hold a home responsibility of translating for her parents, for conversations between
Jennifer’s data reveled has a score of 53 out of 99, which is between the “slightly smiling
Garfield” and the “mildly upset Garfield” for the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey. This
would suggest an indifferent overall attitude towards readings. This is a useful tool towards
development. As mentioned by McKenna, “ these types of Reader self-perception scales can help
“estimate attitude levels efficiently and reliably (McKenna & Kear, 1990, 124).”
For this assessment I used a protocol from the San Diego Quick to determine her
readings level and recognition of words out of contexts. I chose this assessment in particular,
because I have noticed a disconnect in some of my student’s ability to read and interpret
mathematical content vocabulary, which is an interdisciplinary literacy skill. From the San Diego
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Quick assessment data, I determined that she has made sense of words primarily through
breaking down individual words by sounds and through blending. For this assessment we used a
protocol from the San Diego Quick to determine her readings level and recognition of words out
of contexts. I chose this assessment in particular, because I have noticed a disconnect in some of
interdisciplinary literacy skill. Jennifer’s data in the San Diego Quick independent level was at
the fourth-grade level, her instructional level with between the fifth and sixth grade level, and her
frustration level was at the seventh- grade level. In my assessment notes, I noticed she would
seek to say a word by breaking down words by its syllables. When she had made mistakes its
was partially due to miscues in understanding how to annunciate words based on their contexts,
which the test seeks to measure. It would be things like -vowel annunciation that changes in the
contexts of words. I saw that her knowledge of blending and sounding out were present and
represented of her having phonemic awareness. As suggested in the “Open House Video #1 -
Phonemic Awareness,” these are two of the four skills that can be directed with learning
The learning strategy I would use would be oriented towards developing my student
phonemic awareness, and two more strategies I could use are detailed instruction on blending
and word rhyming suggested in Open House Video #1 - Phonemic Awareness (Reading, 2012). I
would want to further my student’s ability to read aloud so she can begin moving towards using
academic vocabulary and be engaged in class. This can be done by using anchor charts of
mathematical procedures, with a supporting word wall of vocabulary. I could extend this by
using “Quizlet Live” activities, to go over key vocabulary words and ideas, while having these
blends, words sounds, and rhyme methods practiced. Following along this approach, I would
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look at standard Ccss.ela-literacy.l.7.4 to focus on vocabulary, this includes the, “ use context) as
a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase (2019 Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2019,
Para.11).” Using formative assessments like fist to 5 would help me guide and improve students’
The strengths of the San Diego Quick assessment are that they can reveal the level of
phonemic awareness my student’s may have and utilizes Jennifer’s ability to draw conclusions
through word dissection. It also helps by providing groups of words at ranging grade levels to
assess a students’ contextual understanding of words. This can help me support and scaffold
lessons for my students in my math class, by utilizing elements of Language Arts that is
interdisciplinary to mathematics. The weakness of using this assessment protocol is that it only
measures how students read aloud words out of contexts, but not necessarily the understanding.
content vocabulary and use deciphering strategies to make sense of tasks. Improvement for my
next assessment would be to direct my student to read aloud and provide contextual
teaching by causing me to consider how my goals for my students could be alighted with
developing their literacy comprehension and understanding. I want them to interpret new topics
in a mathematics class. This has helped me to consider how to use data from assessments and
I realize I take for granted Jennifer and my other students’ ability to use knowledge of
literacy to support their apprehension of content specific literacies in different subjects. Las
Vegas is a very transient area, many people from around the world come and settle here, so
considering the needs and experiences of those whom may not be fluent the English Language, is
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something I must keep in mind. As I progress as an educator, I am realizing that I must meet my
students where they are at, by gaining an understanding of what they know about the subject
Language comprehension and literacy are necessarily elements for successful educational
Assessment Experience #2
Middle school. I work as her Intensive Curriculum Unit Teacher ( ICU) period teacher for
Mathematics. Jennifer is a 7th grader and is bilingual in English and Spanish. Jennifer’s goal is to
become a Lawyer.
For this assessment, I used a comprehension assessment Protocol from The Flynt and
Cooter Comprehensive Reading Inventory-2 (Cooter, Flynt, & Cooter, 2013) to determine her
readings level and types of reading comprehension. I utilized the Level 7 “ The Canoe Trip”
(Cooter, Flynt, & Cooter, 2013, pp.92-93) narrative passage. She scored an “instructional reading
level” because he read 90-94 % of her passage correctly. According to reading protocol Jennifer
is “adequate” in level 7 silent reading comprehension, but her oral reading accuracy was “too
hard’ for her. She had scored a “move to the next passage level” on her listening comprehension
score, because she only missed two questions after being prompted by the teacher. I noticed a lot
of her miscues were caused by reading rapidly or not reading thoroughly. She made the mistakes
of mispronouncing words that were unfamiliar to her, even inserted letters or words to a sentence
to make sense out of it. These results showed that student may need further development her
Based off this assessment, I would need to focus on differentiating for my student’s oral
reading accuracy, so that their overall reading comprehension develops. A Useful strategy
suggested in the Open House Video #1 - Phonemic Awareness video was to increase a students
understanding through word sounding staatgies. The one I find most useful is “segmenting.” This
process starts, “by hearing or seeing a word and then you break it into its separate sounds” (Red
Apple Reading, 2012). I think this strategy could be useful in helping Jennifer breakdown and
pronouce new and unfamilar words to imporove her oral reading ability. This correspond with
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when writing, speaking, reading, or listening” (2019 Common Core State Standards Initiative,
2019, para.8). If Jennifer has a stronger understanding of language and its conventions when it
comes to reading words orally, she can improve her reading comprehesnion on these types of
narrative passages.
This assessment can be useful for helping teachers and educators recognize the areas a
student is strong in and need support in towards their literacy development. It can provide them
multiple levels of assessment on how a student interprets, read aloud, and draws inferences from
passages. I think I could have improved this assessment by making it clear to my student that it is
not about reading fast or doing well, but rather it is meant to help me recognize her literacy
skills. She had made simple mistakes like overlooking words or phrases that could have been
As a developing first year teacher, I think my understanding of how to assess and further
guide my student’s literacy develop are growing. I am starting to see the parallels between how
my students’ ability to read efficiently and make connections to understand passages are a
necessary prerequisite for them to succeed in other core classes, like my math classes. Upon
where my students are at in terms of literacy comprehension can help me to think of strategies to
make instruction for effective in the classroom. An example of this would be my student’s ability
to decipher a text like a “mathematical performance task” could be extremely useful in helping
Assessment Experience #3
Middle school. I work am her Intensive Curriculum Unit Teacher ( ICU) period teacher , which
is focused on developing my students’ Mathematics skills. Jennifer is a 7th grader and is bilingual
in English and Spanish. Jennifer is on our middle school volleyball team and wants to become a
Lawyer.
For this assessment, I used a reading comprehension assessment protocol from The Flynt
and Cooter Comprehensive Reading Inventory-2 (Cooter, Flynt, & Cooter, 2013) to determine
her readings level and types of reading comprehension. I utilized the level 5 “Popcorn” and level
6’s article “Cooking without Fire: The Microwave Oven” and, level 7 “Dimonds” article
level” because she read 97 % of her passage correctly, with only 4 errors. She scored “easy” for
the level 5 silent reading comprehension and “adequate” in oral reading accuracy. As a result,
her listening comprehension suggested that she should “move on to the next passage level.” Her
errors seemed to be the result of incorrect pronunciation and syllable breakdown; she also made
For her level 6 narrative passage, Jennifer was ranked at the “Independent reading level”
because she read 97 % of her passage correctly, with only 2 errors. For Jennifer’s silent reading
comprehension, she missed two question and received a “adequate” score and on her oral reading
accuracy she also scored “adequate.” With her errors in reading and answering questions about
the passage, she seemed to have trouble answering questions on scientific facts that might not
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have been existing in her pool of prior knowledge. However, she still demonstrated enough to be
On the level 7 passage, Jennifer reached her “frustration level” because she had made
7oral reading errors. She had missed 5 question during her silent reading comprehension of the
exam and since she made 7 errors, she had a performance summary of “too hard” on the level 7
assessment. These results showed her phonemic awareness could improve her oral reading
accuracy and comprehension, but the access to prior knowledge required to answer some the
questions could have posed a challenge in properly assessing her literacy level.
According to Carpenter and Peris’s article, “Center for the Improvement of Early
Reading Achievement”:
IRIs are overwhelmingly text based, emphasizing the readers ability to reproduce the
ideas of the author rather than to integrate those ideas with their own knowledge
…centered upon the background knowledge of the reader (Peris & Carpenter, 2003, pp.
145).
These scholars raise this point to suggest that while standard IRIs can help provide teachers and
educators knowledge about a student’s literacy level, they can be presumptuous of prior
knowledge that a student may not necessarily have access to. They raise some points on how the
different levels of questioning beyond literal text questioning is something that would give
educators a more holistic understanding of how students think about a piece of literature and
perceive reading. As a solution they suggest that IRI creators make a more ardent effort to ask
open ended questions to gauge student thinking. They suggest that educators like myself can also
part take in making IRI literacy assessments useful tools for obtaining data by, “ choosing them
[IRIs} more judiciously… [and by] incorporating questioning techniques that encourage a
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response from children…to identify reluctant or struggling readers as early as possible (Peris &
Carpenter, 2003, pp.179).” Keeping these critical thoughts in minds, I think being more
conscious of a student’s literacy abilities, character, and interests could be useful in deciding on
IRIs. Designing an open-ended line of questioning to gauge my student’s thinking and how they
understand an article of literature as they attempt to relate it to them self. This would allow me to
understand how to support students like Jennifer and enable me to take a more direct approach
Literacy.L.7.3, which is to “use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing,
speaking, reading, or listening (2019 Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2019).” If
Jennifer gains a stronger uderstanding of how to tie the naarative and ideas brought up in a text
to her own train of thought, then she will be able to make interrences, draw conclusions, take a
position on a matter. This would enable her to develop more with her lietracy comprehsnion and
I think incorporating open-ends opportunities for students to extend their thinking and
reason through a text would help them develop as readers, and potentially see reading as an
opportunity. I think I can incorporate this into my classroom by having my students engage in
discursive practices and share their ideas on what would be asked of them and how they might
do it, when going over a new set of directions for a new unit.
My goals for my students in my math class, is to have them see themselves as capable
interpreting and taking a problem, through reading, thinking, and struggling to find solutions. A
large part of math, no matter the topic, is problem solving. This is a life skill that will enable
them to be college or career ready as they begin their soon to be adult lives. I believe one way
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that would help serve my students in their confidence in mathematics is to develop their capacity
to read and think with a resilient mind-set that allows think to share their thinking. Planning
open-ended opportunities for my students to think and even share their thoughts of what is
possible when it comes to a topic in math could serve them in their literacy development and
Assessment Experience #4
Middle school. I am her Intensive Curriculum Unit Teacher ( ICU) period teacher, which is a
Math support class. Jennifer is a 7th grade student and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Jennifer plays on the school’s volleyball team and aspires to become a Lawyer. I had Jennifer
work on her essay assignment on her Chromebook, since my site school is technology oriented
and Jennifer is already skilled in using google suites for her academic work. The two rubrics I
am using to assess her writing sample are the “Higher-Order Concern Writing Continuum” and
the “Traits Rubric for Grades 3–12,” to assess her writing proficiency and offer supports for
furthering her writing skills. To begin I had her write an essay responding to the following
prompt: What is one thing you enjoy doing that you consider your hobby? What about it interests
After assessing a writing sample of Jennifer’s writing sample with both rubrics, I realized
that how proficiency was reflected was assessed differently. These two rubrics assessed different
aspects of writing : the writing continuum focused on purpose, audience, focus, and organization
with a focus on the process of revision. The traits rubric focused on ideas, organization, voice,
word choice sentence, fluency, conventions, and presentation. Jennifer’s writing reflected
proficiency on the “Higher-Order Concern Writing Continuum(Scott, Nagelhout, & Spies, n.d.)”
rubric with an overall average of ranging at stage 3 of writing proficiency. She received a not
proficient on the “Traits Rubric for Grades 3–12” (Education Northwest, 2014) rubric with an
overall average of 3.58, which is in between developing and capable. These two rubrics had
differentiating definitions of writing proficiency, one was focused more the product and the
continuum seemed more focused on the production (Scott, Nagelhout, & Spies, 2018). In
accordance with the Stages of Writing development: Portraits of Writers Jennifer would be
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deemed a bridging writer because she was able to convey her main point of “liking soccer and
My findings from these rubric assessments, these two assessments have different
orientation on what is qualified as “proficient writing,” which could mean that they are rubric
that would probably have different used depending on the style of writing and writing objective.
For example, in the continuum article the focus was on “production [that] privileges “the
process” including writing to learn over the final product (Scott, Nagelhout, & Spies, n.d., pp. 3).
This is suggesting that the writing process, which includes student centered metacognitive
revision, is more important than the final product. This rubric would be weak if the writing
writing. Contrastingly, the traits rubric seemed more focused on elements of writing such as
high-level vocabulary use, spelling, and minor punctuation. It would be useful in assessing
center the meaning and main ideas of writing being brought up by students in the writing, then
the “Trait rubric” does pay adequate attention to students current writing and literary abilities.
Keeping revisions and student’s writing process in mind, I would suggest that the RAFT
writing strategy would be a useful differentiation strategy for supporting a student like Jennifer
further her mastery of writing. The writing prompt and objective for Jennifer’s essay revision
language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness
and redundancy. The areas of growth in Jennifer’s essay include: the need to clarify and expand
on an idea, organize the structure of her essay, and have a clear beginning and closing to her
response to the prompt. By using the RAFT model, Jennifer will reevaluate the role, audience,
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format, and topic in her revision process. This could be done by, “[having] the student review the
concept and assignment orally first (AdLit.org, 2008), which could allow them to
metacognitively assess the tone, flow, errors they made in their writing. I think this would help
Jennifer improve her essay’s statements and also allow me to be a support for helping her self-
actualize her own development in the writing process. With this in made, I believe she may help
her “eliminate … redundancy (2019 Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2019, para. 9)”
While remaining critically conscious of English language Learners and Culturally and
Linguistically Diverse students in mind, like Jennifer, the traits rubric does not provide adequate
attention to students with variating backgrounds and literary skills. As mentioned in the
Continuum article, “ experiences and cognitive processing skills to strategically generate text,
and strategically use funds from various discourses, such as homeland and communities(Scott,
Nagelhout, & Spies, n.d., pp. 1).”” I believe students have to be able learn and to do certain
things to be college and career ready, assessing students on one criteria like the “traits rubric”
does, would not be useful in assessing student’s preexisting knowledge. To be able to support all
students, including ELLs/CDLs, I think the continuum rubric and approach for developing
student writing is the most useful. This continuum considers, “ recursive writing process is a
natural scaffold to support ELs in accessing the medium and structure of English (Scott,
Nagelhout, & Spies, n.d., pp. 3).”It frames student’s ability in writing as an asset worth
leveraging, rather than a deficit or barrier for student success. I think I am making progress in
understanding the big picture goal of all of the assessments we have done thus far and how they
can potentially help support literacy and learning. I could have improved on this assessment by
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revising the prompt to include a clear thesis statement and concluding paragraph, along with
Reflecting on these types of rubric assessments, I think considering the type of rubric and
procedure we will follow as educators, needs to be strategically planned based on our goal for
our students and based off what skills they have to bring to the table. I learned that I value
student’s growth and movement towards mastery of writing as opposed to them scoring well on
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