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Effective Strategies for Assessing Reading Skills

The document discusses recommendations for assessing reading levels of students and strategies for teaching reading. It recommends obtaining information from previous teachers or administering a placement test to assess reading levels. It advises against formal testing for extensive reading. For struggling readers, it suggests providing easy materials, language experience approach, paired reading, and reciprocal reading. It describes reading cards and laboratories as collections of graded texts that can be used independently to improve reading skills. It recommends using class readers when wanting to make reading enjoyable for students and suggests choosing an appealing yet not too difficult book and sharing it between students.

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Effective Strategies for Assessing Reading Skills

The document discusses recommendations for assessing reading levels of students and strategies for teaching reading. It recommends obtaining information from previous teachers or administering a placement test to assess reading levels. It advises against formal testing for extensive reading. For struggling readers, it suggests providing easy materials, language experience approach, paired reading, and reciprocal reading. It describes reading cards and laboratories as collections of graded texts that can be used independently to improve reading skills. It recommends using class readers when wanting to make reading enjoyable for students and suggests choosing an appealing yet not too difficult book and sharing it between students.

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Wednesday March 28, 2012 Mara Erika de los ngeles Lpez Pulido.

Homework.
1. What are the two main ways you can discover the level of Reading ability of new students? Get information from the previous teacher and organize reading records that are passed from one class to the next. A placement test (provides that students are not completely beginners)

2. Is regular formal testing recommended for extensive reading? Explain. No, it is not recommended because everyone reads different books and the progress of each student is only measurable over an extensive period of time.

3. What are some of the things teacher can do for remedial work with students who turn out to read very badly? Provide them with a lot of easy material. Language experience approach where the teachers and students prepare the materials together. Paired reading where students work in pairs on a variety of tasks. Reciprocal reading where the student gradually takes over the teachers role (questioning, summarizing and predicting).

4. What are reading cards and reading laboratories? How can they be used? Reading cards: are texts with questions or other tasks, printed on a card which can be stored with others in a box file, filing cabinet, etc. Reading laboratory: is a collection of reading cards, graded in level and intended to be used systematically to improve reading skills. Reading cards and reading laboratory are used independently of the teacher and can be borrowed like graded readers, they are ideal for any student who is far below or above the level of the others, they can also be used to check students work in their readings.

5. When is it useful to use a class reader? What are the main recommendations the author gives? When you want to require the students to read and make them feel the reading enjoyable. 1. The recommendations are: Choose a book that appeal to the most of the class. 2. The way you dead with the book: number of lessons a week or free reading in their homes. 3. Choose a book that is not difficult for the students. 4. Use the books that you can and roll them between the students.

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