Aide Rocha March 10, 2017

Reading Assessment

1. Expository Passage.
In the Shadow of the Mountain by Lisa deMauro. (103 words)

A huge rainstorm had put an end to Victors school days, at least for a
while. It had rained for daysa pounding, driving rain. So much water had
soaked into the ground that the earth on the side of the mountain had turned
to mud. It poured down the mountain like a river overflowing.
The mudslide had destroyed everything in its path: farmland, houses
and the school. A wall of mud had slammed into the school building, cracking
it open like the shell of a nut. It caved in the roof, crushing the desks and
chairs and burying the // books and supplies.

2. Book is leveled for Grades 3-5 according to the Scholastic Book Wizard.

3. Background Knowledge Questions: Ask the student the following

questions and discuss.

I. What would you do if a natural disaster destroys your school? Or

your home?
II. Do you know if any of your family or friends have been affected
by heavy rainstorms?
III. Would you like to live in a different place than where you are
living in?

4. Ask student to read the passage silently and retell the story orally in
their own words. While student retells the passage, indicate what
questions were initially answered during the retelling by writing an I
and ask the student those questions left unanswered by writing an L
and see if student is able to answer them.

Questions/Answers Level of
Comprehension

_____ 1. What season do you think it was? (Spring )

Literal

_____ 2. What was the boys name? (Victor) Literal

_____ 3. Would you like to visit a place with mountains all Evaluative
around? Or live in a similar place?

_____ 4. What did the heavy rain create? Literal

(A mudslide)
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_____ 5. What was lost during the heavy rain? Literal

(Houses, Farmland and School)

_____ 6. What did the author mean by A huge rainstorm had

Inferential
put an end to Victors school days?
(School was destroyed and there was no place else
to continue with school classes)

_____ 7. How would you feel if that happened were you live?
Inferential

_____ 8. Would you think the same destruction would happen

Inferential
if the houses school and farmland were up in the
mountains? Why?
_____ 9. If you were Victor, what could you have done to
Inferential
recover your school books and supplies?

_____ 10. Was this fiction or nonfiction? Evaluative

5. Ask the student to read aloud the passage initially read until the 100th
word which is indicated with a stop-marker sign (//). While the student
reads aloud, record which words the student says correctly and what
type of miscues occur.

Words read
correctly=_____________________________________________________
List all miscues=
__________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

6. Teacher must determine at what level of reading the student is on.

_____________ Independent Level (95 % reading accuracy)

_____________ Instructional Level (90% reading accuracy)
_____________ Frustration Level (less than 90% reading
accuracy)
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MISCUE ANALYSIS

Teacher will circle all reading behaviors observed on bullets A and B

and will notate comments on bullets C and D.

A. Fundamental Behaviors Observed:

left-to-right directionality
1 to 1 matching
searching for clues
cross-checking

B. Word Attack Behaviors:

no attempt * skips/reads on
mispronunciation (invented word) * asks for help
substitutions * repeats
attempts to self-correct *sounds out (segmenting)

blends sounds * structural analysis

(root words, affixes)

C. Cueing Systems Used in Attempting Words

CUEING MISCUE EXAMPLES ACTUAL TEXT

TOOL
(M)

Meaning

(S) Syntax

(V) Visual

D. Fluency (indicate how fluently the student read out loud)

Word by word reading _____

Mixed phrasing ____
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Fluent reading _____

Fluency rate in seconds: _________

Performance Summary

Silent Reading Comprehension Oral Reading

Accuracy
_____ 0-1 questions missed = easy _____ 0-1 oral error =
independent

level

_____ 2 questions missed = adequate _____ 2-5 oral errors =

instructional

level
_____ 3+ questions missed = too hard _____ 6+ oral errors =
frustration

level