Assessment

Documents and Resources:
 * Assessment **
 * [|Assessing, Evaluating, and Reporting Student Progress], Ministry of Learning, Saskatchewan - This resource provides a variety of assessment, evaluating and reporting rubrics and checklists (Intended in curriculum from Grades 5 and up but can be adapted for lower grades)
 * [|Assessment Forms], Ministry of Learning, Saskatchewan - This resource provides a variety of assessments for ELA. (Intended in curriculum from Grades K - 5)
 * [|Assessment for Learning] - links to past provincial assessments including all resources. [|AFL Sk Learning] will take you irectly to the Ministry webpage with links to Reading, Writing, Math and Science.
 * [|Assessment and Evaluation]- a condensed document identifying key aspects to assessment and evaluation

Literacy Assessments and Support [|HIP Assessment] - (Grade 3-8) The HIP Reading Assessment is a graded set of 200-word texts which, administered one-on-one, enables a teacher to determine a child's reading level and understand his/her strengths and weaknesses as a reader. Includes suggestions for specific instruction to deal with individual student needs. This is a downloadable resource. [|RAD Assessment] - (Grade 1-9) Classroom-based assessment FOR learning, OF learning, AS learning helps students learn more about themselves as readers, and helps teachers plan for systematic comprehension instruction. [|Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System] (Grade 1-8) - One-on-one, comprehensive assessment to determine independent and instructional reading levels, for placing students on the Fountas & Pinnell A-Z Text Gradient, and connecting assessment to instruction with the Continuum of Literacy Learning.
 * Provides descriptive feedback in the three aspects of reading with an emphasis on content-area reading:
 * 1) Strategies
 * 2) Comprehension
 * 3) Analysis

[|OCA]- (Grade 7-12) Ontario Comprehension Asessment Grade 7-12. This resource links assessment to explicit reading strategy and skills instruction. [|OCA Student Success Kit]. (Grade 7-12)
 * Provides feedback on student use of comprehension strategies
 * Assesses literal thinking, inferential thinking and making connections
 * Links assessment with "next steps" instruction
 * Helps teachers link assessment to explicit reading strategy and skills instruction
 * Supports students reading significantly below grade level
 * Passages are age-appropriate, but written at reading levels from Grades 4-8
 * 10 passages at different levels, 5 copies of each
 * Can be administered at the same time as the OCA during whole-class assessment
 * Also includes optional miscue analysis and individual conferences for each passage, to provide additional support for individual students