Evidence of assesment

After watching the video, i had a much better understanding of ways to assess key reading elements for each student. The presenter broke each area down into word knowledge, fluency, comprehension, motivation and interests, language, writing and general. After going over the different areas of literacy she explained that its important to measure these areas to know where each student stands. She explained that these assessments should be embedded into the lessons and happen through out the classroom activities, while teaching. Its also important to keep records of what you observe. I think the most interesting part about the video was when the teachers began listing ways and activities that can be done to assess each area. ideas like student teacher confrences, asking questions to students, listening to student conversations, Informal reading invatories, read aload sessions, writing samples and think aloud activites all help give evidence of atleast one literacy area if not more than one.