Developmental Reading Assessment Overview What is the Purpose

What is the Purpose? �The DRA enables teachers to determine & prescribe instruction for

The DRA Assessment Cycle • Assessing performance • Teaching and Learning • Analyzing and

The DRA Assesses Knowledge – retelling and comprehension Skills – reading/accuracy, decoding, phrasing and

Administering the DRA �The assessment will be given two to three times per year.

What about the Text? �Books are leveled from A-80 and are benchmark text. �Text

What do the numbers mean? Early Emergent K Upper Emergent 1 Early Fluency 2

How do the numbers translate into just right books? DRA Level Comparable Text A

How do the numbers translate into just right books? DRA Level Comparable Text 18

Level 50 comparable books: Poppy -by Avi (S) The Indian in the Cupboard –by

Level 60 comparable books: The Secret Garden -by Frances Burnett (U) The Bad Beginning

What Can I Do? �Read to your children daily, even when they can read

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Developmental Reading Assessment Overview

What is the Purpose? �The DRA enables teachers to determine & prescribe instruction for all students. �Provides teacher with information that helps them determine each student’s independent reading level. �Enables teachers to record and evaluate changes in students reading performance. �Helps to determine what the student needs to learn next.

The DRA Assessment Cycle • Assessing performance • Teaching and Learning • Analyzing and Reflecting • Planning instruction

The DRA Assesses Knowledge – retelling and comprehension Skills – reading/accuracy, decoding, phrasing and fluency Dispositions – reading preferences, book choice, and motivation

Administering the DRA �The assessment will be given two to three times per year. It may be used more frequently for struggling readers. �May be administered by the classroom teacher or reading specialist. �Will begin in grade 1, except in cases where a kindergartener is reading well above grade level.

What about the Text? �Books are leveled from A-80 and are benchmark text. �Text differs according to level by: size of print difficulty of words and concepts number of words predictability of language illustrations complexity of story

What do the numbers mean? Early Emergent K Upper Emergent 1 Early Fluency 2 Fluency 3 -4 Proficiency 5 -6 DRA Levels A-4 DRA Level 5 -16 DRA Level 18 -28 DRA Level 30 -40 DRA Level 50 -80 Fountas & Pinnel Level A-C Fountas & Pinnel Level D-I Fountas & Pinnel Level J-M Fountas & Pinnel Level N-R Fountas & Pinnel Level R-Z

How do the numbers translate into just right books? DRA Level Comparable Text A Oops (Little Celebrations) 1 The Bath (Ready Readers), My Book (Maris/Viking) 2 Have You Seen My Cat? (Carle/Putnam) Have You Seen My Duckling? (Tafuri/Greenwillow) 3 An Elephants Trunk (Little Celebrations) 4 Brown Bear (Martin/Holt) 6 How Many Bugs in a Box (Carter/Simon & Schuster) 8 Go Dog Go (Eastman) 10 Just Like Daddy (Asch/Simon & Schuster) 12 Gone Fishing (Long/Houghton Mifflin) 14 Just Me and My Dad (Mayer/Donovan) 16 Are You My Mother? (Eastman/Random House)

How do the numbers translate into just right books? DRA Level Comparable Text 18 There’s Something In My Attic (Mayer/Penguin Group) 20 Frog and Toad (Lobel/Harper & Row) Henry and Mudge (Rylant/Aladdin) 24 Arthur books (Hoban/Harper Collins) Nate the Great (Weinman/Dell) 28 The Stories Julian Tells (Cameron/Random House) Undersea Gardens (i. Openers/Pearson) 30 Cam Jansen (Adler/Puffin Books) Peewee Scouts series (Delton/Dell) 34 The Hit Away Kid (Christopher/Dell) Little Critter Journal (Little Celebrations) 38 Box Car Children (Warner/Albert Whitman) Astronauts Take Flight (i. Openers/Pearson) 40 The Magic School Bus Series (Cole/Scholastic) Little House on the Prairie (Wilder/Harper Collins)

Level 50 comparable books: Poppy -by Avi (S) The Indian in the Cupboard –by Lynee Reid Banks (R) Hatchet –by Gary Paulsen (R) Sarah, Plain and Tall -by Patricia Maclachlan (R) The Whipping Boy by-Sid Fleischman (R) The Sign of the Beaver -by Elizabeth George Speare (T) The Islander -by Cynthia Rylant (T) Misty’s Twilight -by Marguerite Henry Level 60 comparable books: Ella Enchanted -by Gail Levine (U) Julie of the Wolves -by Jean Craighead George (U) The Watsons Go to Birmingham -by Christopher Curtis(U) The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle -by Avi (V)

Level 60 comparable books: The Secret Garden -by Frances Burnett (U) The Bad Beginning -by Lemony Snicket (V) Holes -by Louis Sacher (V) Walk Two Moons -by Sharon Creech (W) Slam! -by Walter Myers (W) The Cay -by Theodore Taylor V) Level 70 comparable books: The Phantom Tollbooth -by Norton Juster (W) The Witch of Blackbird –by Elizabeth Speare (W) The Ring Of Endless Light -by Madeleine L’Engle (W) The Cookcamp -by Gary Paulsen (V) The Girl Who Owned a City -by O. T. Nelson (X) Where the Red Fern Grows -by Wilson Rawls (X) The Dark End is Rising -by Susan Cooper (X)

What Can I Do? �Read to your children daily, even when they can read the text. �Be a good role model by reading when your child is reading. �Let your children read to you. �Have discussions about events in your lives. �Create your own book group. �Understand that when a child says a book is too easy it is usually just right. �Enjoy!