Session 5

Session 5 is for assessing your young readers to see how much they've learned!

Session 5 Assessment

Regular assessment is essential to foundational skills instruction because it allows teachers to spot errors as children are rapidly learning new skills.

Formative and summative assessments in Magnetic Reading Foundations give teachers a quick gauge of how children are progressing toward proficiency, reveal how and when to intervene, and help teachers determine instructional next steps.

Summative
Unit assessments help teachers:

See patterns of error or individual children throughout the unit
Understand student growth in reading connected text with longer passages
Follow instructional Next Steps tailored to the Unit Assessment

Formative
Ongoing assessments help teachers:

Monitor student progress
Track student progress
Respond tactically to students' needs

Session 5 Assessment

Weekly Assessments provide quick, skill-specific assessment in phonological awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, word analysis, and oral reading and give teachers insight into Instructional Next Steps.

Identify instructional next steps for Whole-Class and Individual Assessments.

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Session 5 Assessment, Cont'd.

Track student progress on written tasks.

Track student progress on oral reading and listening tasks.