[LIT] reading test

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From: "Lucinda Marcello" <rpmgrace at cox.net>
To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." 
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Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [LIT] reading test


> Karen,
> Where would you find such a test? Thanks.
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> From: <khonyx at aol.com>
> To: <ljackson at gwtc.net>; <lit at literacyworkshop.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [LIT] reading test
>
>
>> Look at Gates-McGinite.  It has 2 parts- vocab and comprehension that
>> combine into a total score that equates to a grade level/month.  They 
>> have
>> S and T versions so you can do a pre and post.  The vocab takes 20 
>> minutes
>> and I think the comprehension 35 minutes and is whole class. (It can also
>> be done on scantron)
>> I don't know that I would place a child based on it, but it works as a
>> quick screener.
>>
>> Karen Onyx
>> Carusi Middle School
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ljackson at gwtc.net
>> To: lit at literacyworkshop.org
>> Sent: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 8:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LIT] reading test
>>
>>
>> I am interested in this thread as our district really isn't satisfied 
>> with
>> STAR
>> testing, but we really need the initial screening
>> process to be whole class.
>>
>> Lori
>>
>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:47 , Heather Poland <hpoland at gmail.com> sent:
>>
>>>Do you want like an Informal Reading Inventory? Or something that all
>>>students in a class can take at once?
>>>
>>>On 2/25/07, Jan Kammert write at scn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for an easy to administer and score reading test for middle
>>>> school students.  It has to be a test that would take less than 50
>>>> minutes
>>>> for students to complete, and of course it has to yield accurate
>>>> results.
>>>>
>>>> It would be great if the test was also free or very inexpensive.
>>>>
>>>> I doubt the results of the test my school has used in which students 
>>>> who
>>>> seem not to understand grade level fiction scored as 12+ grade-level
>>>> readers.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>- Heather
>>>
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>>>fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out;
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>>>written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men
>>>centuries dead." --Clarence Day
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>>>good evidence exists that there's any educational substance
>>>behind the accountability and testing movement."
>>>—Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds
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