Assessment Agenda for Students at the Emergent Stage

Date: Assessment: Results: Assessment and Instructional Notes:

Attitude and What interests does your student have? What topics and/or genre would you like to find
Interest Survey: in books? What did you learn about attitudes toward reading and writing? Did you
discover anything about developmental levels? Will you student(s) be more in the
emergent, early, or transitional stages?

Phonological Overall score: Which skills need to be focused on in your sessions:

Awareness

CAP Which skills will you work on? Why?

Letter/Sound ID Overall score: Which letters will you work on? Which sounds?
Sight Words Which list(s) did you What will be the first 5-10 words that you’ll focus on in
administer? your sessions:

Based on results What developmental level will be the focus of your

from assessments instruction? Why?
above, if
appropriate(DAP):

Primary Words
Their Way
Where to Start List the levels and scores This assessment is suggesting a range of running record
Words Lists: for each list the student levels to administer (check the chart at the beginning of
reads. the assessment). Which levels of running records will you
DECODING SCORE administer? Why?
Where to Start Vocabulary Score: X/20 List vocabulary words the student could not define or use
Words Lists: in a sentence (skip words that are not easily definable (e.
g., the, because). This will give you a rough idea of how
VOCABULARY difficult it might be to make meaning from a book at this
SCORE (For the level:
highest level of
words the student
decoded, go back
through the list.
This time have
students tell you
what the word
means.)

Running Records Highest Level with an List all levels that you tested and list the accuracy
accuracy rate between percentage for each. Also note comprehension and fluency
90%-94%: at each level. With what text level will you begin your
sessions?
 Assessment Grid for Students at Early and Transitional Stages

Date: Assessment: Results: Assessment and Instructional Notes:

Attitude and What interests does your student have? What topics and/or genre would you like to find
Interest Survey: in books? What did you learn about attitudes toward reading and writing? Did you
discover anything about developmental levels? Will you student(s) be more in the
emergent, early, or transitional stages?

Where to Start List the levels the student This assessment is suggesting a range of running record
Words Lists: read and the scores at each levels to administer. Which levels of running records will
level: you administer? Why?
DECODING SCORE
Where to Start Vocabulary Score: X/20 Missed Words from the list:
Words Lists:

VOCABULARY
SCORE (for the
highest level of
words the student
decoded, you read
the list and have
students tell you
what the word
means)

Elementary or What developmental level will be the focus of your intial

Upper Level Words instruction? Why?
Their Way

Sight Words What lists did the student read? Which 5-10 words will you
work on when your sessions begin?

Running Records Highest Level with an List levels that you tested and list the accuracy percentage
accuracy rate between for each. Also note comprehension and fluency at each
95%-97%: level. With what text level will you begin your sessions?