Assessment that leads to effective teaching 

 

As mentioned in our Literacy section, our school board continues to work with

the highly-regarded Fountas and Pinnell resources.  This includes “The

Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System.”

 

The use of the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System allows our

teachers to provide reliable assessment of reading and writing that places all

students accurately at their level, determines their independent and

instructional reading levels, and links assessment to appropriate teaching with

the Continuum of Literacy Learning.

 

Specific features of the Benchmark Assessment System enable our teachers to:

 

• Determine their students' independent and instructional reading levels

• Group students for reading instruction

• Select texts that will be productive for a student's instruction

• Assess the outcomes of teaching

• Determine a new student's instructional and independent reading level

• Identify students who need intervention and extra help

• Monitor and report student progress across a school year and across year levels

• Create class profiles

• Inform parent conferences