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Principles of Standards Based Reading Instruction
(Domain 1) - ✔✔-A balanced, comprehensive reading program.
-Instructional decisions based on ongoing assessment results
-Systematic and explicit instruction—preventing reading difficulties before they occur
-Mastery of skills—developmental issues and foundational skills
-Differentiated instruction
-Short- and long-term goals and learning objectives
Balanced Instructional Program
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Characterized by the strategic and appropriate selection on what skills
should be taught given child's reading development
Comprehensive Instructional Program
(Domain 1) - ✔✔A program is comprehensive when the teacher works on helping
students achieve all the grade-level standards.
Differentiated Instruction
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,(Domain 1) - ✔✔Practice of individualizing instructional methods, and possibly also
individualizing specific content and instructional goals, to align with each student's
existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
Early Intervention
(Domain 1) - ✔✔-Remedial programs that focus on young readers having difficulty and
try to address reading difficulties at the first possible opportunity
-May offer individualized instruction or provide intervention in small groups
Evidence Based Learning Objectives
(Domain 1) - ✔✔The teacher has defined some source of evidence that will indicate
whether or not each individual child has met the objective. This evidence usually comes
from assessment data.
Components of effective instructional delivery for reading
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Orientation, presentation, structured and guided practice, and
independent practice and application.
Purpose of reading assessment
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Entry level assessments: checking for skill level
Progress Monitoring: ensure adequate progress, analysis of effectiveness of instruction,
using formal and informal assessments to determine instructional needs for each
student.
Summative assessments: ensure students have met the standards
Alternative reading assessments for students with IEPs or 504 Plans
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, (Domain 1) - ✔✔-give students more time
-divide the assessment into smaller units
-change the mode of delivery
-provide practice assessments
-provide a simpler version of the assessment
-follow any accommodations as described in the IEP or 504
California State Board of Education (SBE) program materials for reading/language arts
instruction
(Domain 1) - ✔✔1. basal reading programs
2. programs that provide additional instruction for English learners
3. programs written in languages other than English
4. intensive intervention programs for struggling readers in grades 4-8
5. intensive intervention programs for English learners in grades 4-8
How can you interpret assessment data?
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Percentile scores
grade equivalent scores
Frustrational Reading Level
(Domain 1) - ✔✔less than 90% of words are correct; less than 60% comprehension; these
texts cannot be read and understood by student with help from the teacher, but they
can listen to someone else read them and understand it.
Instructional Reading Level
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Principles of Standards Based Reading Instruction
(Domain 1) - ✔✔-A balanced, comprehensive reading program.
-Instructional decisions based on ongoing assessment results
-Systematic and explicit instruction—preventing reading difficulties before they occur
-Mastery of skills—developmental issues and foundational skills
-Differentiated instruction
-Short- and long-term goals and learning objectives
Balanced Instructional Program
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Characterized by the strategic and appropriate selection on what skills
should be taught given child's reading development
Comprehensive Instructional Program
(Domain 1) - ✔✔A program is comprehensive when the teacher works on helping
students achieve all the grade-level standards.
Differentiated Instruction
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,(Domain 1) - ✔✔Practice of individualizing instructional methods, and possibly also
individualizing specific content and instructional goals, to align with each student's
existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
Early Intervention
(Domain 1) - ✔✔-Remedial programs that focus on young readers having difficulty and
try to address reading difficulties at the first possible opportunity
-May offer individualized instruction or provide intervention in small groups
Evidence Based Learning Objectives
(Domain 1) - ✔✔The teacher has defined some source of evidence that will indicate
whether or not each individual child has met the objective. This evidence usually comes
from assessment data.
Components of effective instructional delivery for reading
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Orientation, presentation, structured and guided practice, and
independent practice and application.
Purpose of reading assessment
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Entry level assessments: checking for skill level
Progress Monitoring: ensure adequate progress, analysis of effectiveness of instruction,
using formal and informal assessments to determine instructional needs for each
student.
Summative assessments: ensure students have met the standards
Alternative reading assessments for students with IEPs or 504 Plans
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, (Domain 1) - ✔✔-give students more time
-divide the assessment into smaller units
-change the mode of delivery
-provide practice assessments
-provide a simpler version of the assessment
-follow any accommodations as described in the IEP or 504
California State Board of Education (SBE) program materials for reading/language arts
instruction
(Domain 1) - ✔✔1. basal reading programs
2. programs that provide additional instruction for English learners
3. programs written in languages other than English
4. intensive intervention programs for struggling readers in grades 4-8
5. intensive intervention programs for English learners in grades 4-8
How can you interpret assessment data?
(Domain 1) - ✔✔Percentile scores
grade equivalent scores
Frustrational Reading Level
(Domain 1) - ✔✔less than 90% of words are correct; less than 60% comprehension; these
texts cannot be read and understood by student with help from the teacher, but they
can listen to someone else read them and understand it.
Instructional Reading Level
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