DRA ASSESSMENT SAMPLE

This is to get students engaged and recall their reading experience.

If the student takes longer than this box to read the full story, the teacher is instructed to cease the test and move onto an easier level

On this page, the student is reading from the story that was selected by the teacher that is on their testing level. First, the teacher is assessing the students rate of reading. Then they are assessing the amount of miscues that were not corrected by the student themselves. Combining both of these, the teacher circles the appropriate words per minute and moves on.

On this page, the students are told to close the book and retell from the beginning what went on.
Some difficulties may include but are not limited to: Students go right to the meat of the story instead of starting on where it all began Students may not include linguistic spillover when retelling the story Students may not include characters names and replace them with pronouns when retelling the story Students may not make deep connections to the story they were reading because it does not relate to them as well as other students (or no prior knowledge of subject)

On this page of the DRA assessment, the student needs to be at the independent section in order to move on to the next DRA level. If the student falls under instructional, that is their DRA level and what they need to work on in order to bump up a level at the end of the year DRA assessment.

It is not uncommon for teachers to give their students a level above their ability to see where they are at and what they need to focus on in guided reading. If the student is having difficulties with the DRA assessment they are assigned from last year, the teacher will give them the next lower level to complete. This may be caused by the lack of reading during summer break or the last year teacher having lower expectations for the students.