literacy skills quizzes
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Literacy Skills quizzes help teachers monitor their students’ development in 24 specific, higher order, reading, and critical-thinking skills from state standardized tests. This assessment provides diagnostic information within the context of reading real literatureTRANSCRIPT
Dana L. Houseman
Literacy Skills Quizzes:
A Different Way to Look at Comprehension
Literacy Skills quizzes help teachers monitor their students’ development in 24 specific, higher order, reading, and critical-thinking skills from state standardized tests. This assessment provides diagnostic information within the context of reading real literature.
Literacy Skills Quizzes:
• Initial Understanding• Literary Analysis• Inferential Comprehension• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills QuizzesMeasure Four Domains
• Describing actions or events• Identifying reasons• Recognizing details• Recognizing feelings• Understanding dialogue• Understanding sequence
Initial Understanding
• Initial Understanding• Literary Analysis• Inferential Comprehension• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills QuizzesMeasure Four Domains
• Recognizing plot• Recognizing setting• Understanding literary features• Understanding characterization• Understanding historical/cultural factors• Understanding the author’s craft
Literary Analysis
• Initial Understanding• Literary Analysis• Inferential Comprehension• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills QuizzesMeasure Four Domains
• Comparing and contrasting• Drawing conclusions• Extending meaning• Making inferences• Making predictions• Recognizing cause and effect
Inferential Comprehension
• Initial Understanding• Literary Analysis• Inferential Comprehension• Constructing Meaning
Literacy Skills QuizzesMeasure Four Domains
• Deriving word or phrase meaning• Differentiating fact and opinion• Identifying reading strategies• Identifying persuasive language• Responding to literature• Understanding the main idea
Constructing Meaning
“It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet seldom do we teach them anything about learning”
Donald Norman, 1980,
Cognitive Engineering Education
Purpose and Rationale ofTeaching Critical Thinking
1.The subject matter or discipline content of the course
2.The correct way to understand andevaluate subject matter
All Education Consists of Transmitting to Students Two Different Things
• Large class sizes and student expectationare the two primary reasons to rely onmultiple choice questions• Multiple choice questions must ask thestudent to perform some reasoning alongwith memorization
Steven D. Schafersman, 1991
How Do Literacy Skills QuizzesAddress Critical Thinking?
Literacy Skills Quizzes
Quizzes are available for ATOS book levels above 2.0 and up to 13.5
We currently have 806 quizzes in Ren Place.
To get a list login to RenPlace and Navigate to AR then choose REPORTS. Next select SCHOOL MANAGEMENT and then QUIZ MANAGEMENT REPORTS
Choose the Literacy Skills Quiz List, you can sort by Book Level, Author, Title, or Quiz number.
Literacy Skills Questions
• Students take after passing ReadingComprehension quizzes• Can quiz on same book three times with different questions• No points• Quizzes help teachers plan instruction and prepare students for high-stakes tests
What Best Practices Are Associated with Literacy Skills Questions?
What Does a LiteracySkills Quiz Look Like?
• Literacy Skills TOPS• Literacy Skills Class Summary Report• Literacy Skills Chart• Student Progress Report
Valid ReportingCapabilities ProvideDiagnostic Information
Literacy Skills Summary Report
Student Record Report
In your group share one wayyou can use Literacy Skills quizzes toprovide diagnostic information to assess reading and critical-thinking skills