Weekly phonics assessments are an important part of intervention and student progress. The right assessment evaluates student learning and progress. And just as important, assessments should guide a teacher to what steps to take next to help students succeed!
The core phonics assessment system that you give should be quick and simple to use.
5 Ways Phonics Assessment Systems Can Be Effective And Drive Success!
Weekly assessments help teachers identify areas where students are struggling and where additional instruction or support is needed.
This allows teachers to adjust their teaching methods and materials to better meet the needs of their students. The whole point of interventions is to figure out what the student can do now and move them forward quickly to where they need to be.
Regular assessments enable teachers to monitor their students’ progress over time. This helps them identify patterns and trends in learning, which can inform their teaching strategies and provide valuable feedback to students and parents.
Graphing student progress is important as it visually represents the progress or lack of progress being made. A visual representation is easier to read and to use to determine if skills are improving at the correct rate.
Early phonics assessment can help identify students who might struggle with reading and writing, enabling early interventions that may prevent future learning difficulties.
Using a screener housed in ESGI will help you to identify those students and get them the interventions they need right now before falling further behind!
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When providing instruction during interventions and even in the classroom, a teacher needs to be able to be responsive to what the next steps are for students. Does the data show the student is progressing or does it indicate that the instruction is not helping yet?
If the data shows no progress for a period of time, we have to look at what we can do: Is this even the right area to be assessing and instructing? The scores may provide clues that we need to back up to previous skills if progress is just not being made. Phonics assessment results can guide teachers in planning and modifying their teaching to better suit the learning needs of their students.
When we assess, we are automatically provided with data about a student’s learning. This weekly data is solid data documenting what learning and progress has taken place.
This evidence can be key information for meetings with administrators, parents and even with students themselves. Everyone involved can see where the student began, the progress made, and learning that still needs to happen.
We don’t want to just assume students are proficient with their phonics skills!
Use a system to make phonics assessments easier to manage, which then will make your instruction more effective and move students toward being better readers!
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