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Family Literacy Night. Third Grade Mrs. Lueken , Mrs . Schue , & Mrs. Haas. Fluency. The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Dibels Oral Reading Fluency (DORF).
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Family Literacy Night Third Grade Mrs. Lueken, Mrs. Schue, & Mrs. Haas
Fluency The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
Dibels Oral Reading Fluency(DORF) • For the Oral Reading fluency Component of the benchmark assessment students are given an unfamiliar grade-level passage of text and asked to read for 1 minute • Errors such as substitution, omissions, and hesitations for more than 3 seconds are marked while listening to the student read aloud • Students read 3 different grade-level passages for 1 minute each • The score is the median number of words read correctly and the median number of errors across the three passages. • Using the median score from three passages gives the best indicator of student performance over a range of different text and content.
3rd Grade Expectations • Beginning of Year: 70+ wpm • Middle of Year: 86+ wpm • End of Year: 100+ wpm
SRI • Scholastic Reading Inventory • Computer Adaptive test designed to determine the reading level of a student based on the Lexile Framework • A Lexile is a unit of measurement used when determining the difficulty of text and the reading level of readers. • The assessment is not about fluency but about understanding what is read.
3rd Grade Expectations • Students reading on grade level would be expected to attain scores in the green “proficient” range. • Students scoring in the pink “below basic” range and the yellow “basic” range are not currently meeting grade level expectations.
Writing Applications Includes… • Ideas and Content • Organization • Style • Score Points • 6-Fully accomplishes the task and has a distinctive quality that sets it apart as an outstanding performance. • 5-represents a solid performance. It fully accomplishes the task, but lacks overall level of sophistication and consistency of a score point 6 paper. • 4-Good Performance. It accomplishes the task but generally needs to exhibit more development, better organization, or a more sophisticated writing style to receive a higher score. • 3-performance that minimally accomplishes the task. Some elements of development, organization, and writing styles are weak.
Writing Conventions • Does It Exhibit… • A very good • An adequate • A minimal • Less than minimal Command of Language Skills? • Score Point • 4-no errors that impair the flow of communication • 3-errors are occasional but do not impede the flow of communication • 2-errors are generally frequent and may cause the reader to stop and reread part of the writing • 1-errors are serious and numerous; they cause the reader to struggle to discern the writer’s meaning.
Core VocabularyLanguage Arts • Cause/effect • Lesson • Syllables • Sequence • Text features • Plot • Genre • Topic sentence • Noun • Verb • Main idea • Details • Glossary • Index • Table of contents • Revise • Edit • Adjective • Adverb • Pronoun • Prefix • Suffix • Narrator • Fact opinion • Summarize • Moral • Visualize • infer
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