Literacy & Content Area Assessments

My drawing depicts a gas tank pumping fuel into a car. The gas tank is an important element of the drawing because it provides fuel necessary to make the car move. The purpose of the image is to show that the two elements function together or compliment each other. For example, gas stations stay in business because of cars and cars cannot function without some type of fuel. Similar to the fuel in a gas tank, literacy assessments, such as cloze testing, reading guides, standardized tests and readability formulas are the fuel for teacher’s instruction in content areas. The results from students’ performance on literacy assessments help determine the difficulty level of tasks, students readiness, support needed for students and elements the teacher feels is most important for students to understand. Please note that the literacy assessments (cloze testing and reading guides) can also be used as a content area assessment. One-on-one literacy assessments and content area assessments can be used interchangeably to assess a student’s knowledge.

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