Assessment Tools

The Read Side by Side Reading Program

Assessment and Intervention Guide

In the Read Side by Side Reading Program, formative assessments take the lead, reducing the impact on instructional time.

For a full understanding of how to use these assessments in your classroom, the Assessment and Intervention Guide will be an invaluable tool!

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Learn about your students!

The first two weeks of the school year offer an opportunity to get to know your students to understand their motivation, habits, interest, and self-efficacy, each of which is deeply connected to the success each student will experience in reading.

All Students

2-3 Times a Year

A quick assessment to learn about your students' reading motivation.

All Students

2-3 Times a Year

A quick assessment to learn about your students' reading interests.

All Students

2-3 Times a Qtr.

An easy template for structuring your reading conferences.

All Students

1 Time a Month

Four quadrant reading logs for fiction and nonfiction.

Match students to texts!

As you get ready to start your first book club, use your standardized assessment and our running records to help determine each students' book match.

All Students

September

Need to start small groups right away? Use this quick assessment as a screener.

All Students

2-3 Times a Year

After finishing your nationally normed assessments, use this to sort students into book clubs.

All Students

2-3 Times a Year

Use a nationally normed, summative assessment to sort students by percentile data.

Star (Renaissance Learning)

MAP Reading Growth Test (NWEA)

i-Ready (Curriculum Associates)

Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test (Riverside Insights)

Terra Nova (Seaton Testing Service)

some students

2-3 Times a Year

Use the running record to learn more about your students' strengths and weaknesses.

Download running records for 7th-8th grade from the middle school resource page.

Assess daily work!

You will score a students' ability to participate in turn and talk as well as their written work collected in lists and charts, summaries, and extended writing. Running records and conference notes will provide additional data.