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Comprehension Informal Assessment

The student, SH, is a sixth grader with a specific learning disability. Previous testing showed his reading comprehension is at a fourth grade level and fluency at third grade level. SH is currently assessed weekly using AIMSweb Reading Maze assessments, with a goal of 15 correct responses on 4th grade passages by year's end. Recent assessments put SH around the 10th percentile at a fourth grade level, about two grades below peers.

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Comprehension Informal Assessment

The student, SH, is a sixth grader with a specific learning disability. Previous testing showed his reading comprehension is at a fourth grade level and fluency at third grade level. SH is currently assessed weekly using AIMSweb Reading Maze assessments, with a goal of 15 correct responses on 4th grade passages by year's end. Recent assessments put SH around the 10th percentile at a fourth grade level, about two grades below peers.

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Courtney Raia Informal Assessment Student: The Student SH, is a sixth grader with a Specific Learning Disability.

Skill: The skill to be investigated is the students reading comprehension.

What is known: SH is a student in co-taught English/Language Arts class. Previous testing has indicated that his reading comprehension is at about a fourth grade level, and his reading fluency is at about a third grade level. When present in class, he requires only a little motivation to complete the work that is given to him. When other students in the class get off topic and have side conversations, SH will sometimes get distracted and join in, causing him to lose focus.

Area: Reading Comprehension What? What system does the students teachers already use to assess his reading comprehension? Answer: Why? So I can use the same system in order to remain consistent with the data. Source Ask special education teacher.

The student is currently being assessed using the AIMSweb Reading Maze assessments. His reading is assessed weekly. What current goals are set for the students reading comprehension? Answer: There is a current goal set that the student will achieve 15 correct responses on 4th grade comprehension assessments with only one error by the end of this academic school year. So I can get an idea of what the student is working towards and how these goals are being targeted. Ask special education teacher. Review IEP.

What reading comprehension scores are typical for 6th graders in the spring? Answer:

So I can get an idea of how far AIMSweb data. the student is from grade level.

Using sixth grade reading passages, the standard score for the 50th percentile of sixth grade students on the AIMSweb comprehension assessment is 28 correct responses. Using 4th grade passages, the number of correct responses at the 50th percentile is 20 responses correct.

Area: Reading Comprehension What? What is SHs current reading comprehension level? Why? To determine the students reading ability. To learn how far behind his goal that he currently is. Source Conduct reading comprehension tests until results seem stable.

Procedures: Because it has already been determined through previous assessments that the student is at the 4th grade comprehension level, probes will be given using fourth grade passages. The process for assessing will be as follows: 1. Sit across from the student and provide him with one copy of the CBM Reading MAZE assessment. 2. Tell the student to read and choose the words that make the most sense in the story when he gets to the bolded parts of the text. 3. Set the timer for three minutes and tell the student to begin. 4. At the end of three minutes, tell the student to stop and put his pencil down. 5. Use the answer key to determine the number of words circled correctly and the number of errors that the student made. These assessments are administered as often as time allows in order to determine the students current reading comprehension level. Continue assessing with new passages at the proper grade level until results give the desired information.

Results: Date 1/16 1/23 2/4 2/7 Correct Responses 12 4 6 13 Number of Errors 0 0 1 0 Percentile Rank 15th (estimate - >10th) >10th >10th 15th (estimate - >10th)

Number of Correct Responses on Comprehension Assessments


20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 15-Jan 22-Jan 3-Feb 2.7

Correct Responses Errors

Answer: SHs reading comprehension scores were assessed using the Reading Comprehension MAZE assessment, where the student is to read a passage and circle the word that makes sense in the context of the passage. His scores on the MAZE assessment show that he averaged around the 10th percentile at a fourth grade reading level. These percentile rankings are based on the fourth grade level in the spring, showing that he is reading about two grade levels below his peers.

Summary: SH is a student placed in a 6th grade co-taught English class, and previous testing has shown that his reading comprehension is at about a fourth grade level and his fluency is at about a third grade level. His reading comprehension is currently being assessed using the AIMSweb Reding MAZE assessment. Through giving SH these comprehension assessments, it has been determined that he is currently reading around the 10th percentile at the fourth grade level. From these results, it has been determined that he should be instructed using texts of the fourth grade level as well. When doing the assessments, it was sometimes difficult to get the student to focus on the task at hand. This will be useful to know when planning instruction, because perhaps using passages he is interested in will encourage him to focus on his reading.

Suggested Objective: When reading a passage at a fourth grade level, SH will demonstrate comprehension by correctly responding to both recall and higher order questions about the text orally. Mastery will be when he can correctly respond to 80% of the questions on five consecutive trials.

Rationale: Increasing SHs reading comprehension is important because understanding what is being read is a vital skill in order to succeed as he furthers in his education, and improving in order to get him closer to grade level would be ideal. Being able to correctly respond to questions about the text one is reading is a evidence-based method of demonstrating knowledge about the reading. Asking the various levels of questions will help the student not only recall information about the text, but also to infer and use background knowledge to further understand it.

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