Kelsey Kleven

Compendium of Instructional Strategies and Assessments

Educ 681

Assessments
Grade Area Definition Assessment When?
2-5 Fluency Ability to read DIBELS Oral Reading Beginning,
words accurately Fluency Passages Middle and End
and at an of the year to
appropriate pace assess progress;
weekly to assess
effective
interventions
2-5 Comprehension Ability to DIBELS MAZE Passages Beginning,
understand what Middle and End
you are reading of the year to
assess progress;
weekly to assess
effective
interventions
K-3 Phonics Ability to use letter DIBELS Nonsense Word Beginning,
sound Middle and End
correspondence to of the year to
read words that you assess progress;
are not familiar weekly to assess
with effective
interventions

Strategies
Areas Definition Strategies Differentiation
Phonemic Awareness Hearing and Isolate and identify Visuals, magnetic
manipulating sounds medial sounds: letters to assist in
in spoken words Medial Match identification
Dominoes

Blending Phonemes:
What’s My Word?

Manipulate
Phonemes:
Phoneme Swap
Phonemics Understanding that Blend Onsets and Provide visuals;
letters and sounds Rimes: Word Blender Provide prompt
 come together to structure; Provide
make words Identifying High visual mats for
Frequency words: building; color code
Jumping words onsets and rhymes
and first and second
Forming and of compound words
breaking down
compound words:
Compound
Concentration

Vocabulary Understanding words Identify Antonyms: Visuals, Color Coding,

about a topic so you Opposites Attract provide words from
can make meaning of the topic
the reading as a Identifying words
whole with multiple
meanings in context:
Multiple Meaning
Match

Identifying word
meaning in context:
Word Why
Fluency Reading words Reading with speed Highlighting; color
accurately and at an and accuracy: coding and materials;
appropriate pace Fast Phrases varied lengths of
reading
Reading with
expression:
Copy Cat

Reading with speed

and accuracy:
Read and Read Again
Comprehension Understanding and Using Inferences: Color coding, visuals,
making connections Incredible Inferences spacing and varied
about things we hear passage length
and read Identifying Cause and
Effect: Cause and
Effect Match

Identifying Main Idea

and Detail: Main Idea
Highlights