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Implementing the Reading Foundations Skills Block
What does assessment look like in the Skills Block?
Primary teachers are deeply and rightfully committed to ensuring that all students are pro- gressing as readers. Toward this same end, most schools and districts tend to heavily emphasize assessments, assessment systems, and reporting on data to the school community and parents. So, understandably, teachers using the Skills Block curriculum may have signi cant and speci c questions regarding assessments. The table that follows summarizes the three major types of assessments in the Skills Block. Refer to the Assessment Overview section of the K–2 Reading Foundations Skills Block—Resource Manual for greater detail.
The results of these assessments, particularly the Benchmark Assessments, are so tightly aligned with the phases and microphases that each one helps teachers pinpoint and track students’ progression through the phases toward mastery of taught skills. This targeted information empowers teachers (and students, parents, and leaders) with common language to discuss, plan, and set goals around students’ strengths and areas of need.
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