Reading AssessmentsDRA2 and Running Records

Twin Valley School District ●Parent Workshop

What is the Developmental

Reading Assessment (DRA)?

• An individually administered reading

assessment given to students in grades

K-4 to determine instructional reading

level

• Assesses a student’s reading progress

over time

• Scores are given for reading engagement,

oral reading fluency, and comprehension

DRA Folder

Students are asked to…..

• Answer questions regarding their

reading behaviors

• Listen to an introduction about the

book they will read

• Read an entire text or a section of

text aloud

• Answer comprehension questions

Teachers will…

• Record student responses

• Listen to students read and mark text based on behaviors noticed

• Calculate accuracy and reading rate (when applicable)

• Analyze miscues (errors)

• Use the rubric and manual to score student responses

• Determine areas that require focus during small group instruction

How is the DRA used?

• Informs parents and teachers of a

student’s instructional reading level

• Identifies student’s strengths and

weaknesses as readers

• Teachers use information to plan for

guided reading instruction

• Identifies students who need

intervention

Twin Valley School District

Benchmark Expectations

Grade Time of Year DRA2 level Guided Level

Kindergarten Fall n/a A

Winter 2 B

Spring 4 C

First Fall 4 C

Winter 10 F

Spring 16 I

Second Fall 16 I

Winter 20 K

Spring 28 M

Third Fall 28 M

Winter 34 O

Spring 38 P

Fourth Fall 38 P

Winter 40 instructional Q/R

Spring 40 independent S

Running Records

• A quick informal assessment used to determine how a child is performing at a specific reading level.

• The teacher sits with the student and uses codes to record information while the student reads aloud. The teacher can also evaluate the student’s fluency and comprehension.

• The teacher can then analyze the record to determine what strategies the student uses/lacks while reading.

Supporting reading at home

• Read, read, read, and read some more

• Read both fiction and non-fiction texts that are “just right”

• Ask students to retell a story

• Ask questions:

– What was your favorite part –Why?

– What does this story remind you of?

– What is the author trying to tell us?

– What was the most important event – why?

– What do the tables/charts/pictures tell us?