Top Examples of Formative Assessments in Reading for 2024

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Planning with Purpose: Examples of Formative Assessments in Reading Looking for examples of formative assessments in reading and not sure where to start? Recognizing the purpose of an assessment is key to planning with intention. It’s important to consider what you’re trying to learn about your students and how will you find that information. Finally, […]

Standards Assessing: Formative Assessment Checklist to Keep Organized

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Formative Assessment Checklist Looking for a formative assessment checklist to keep you organized with data? Standards checklists are one of the easiest, most efficient ways to keep track of student understanding. For language arts skills, I have found student portfolios to be an effective way to store student anecdotal notes, evidence for progress and student […]

Reading Formative Assessment Templates for Better Book Clubs

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Formative Assessment Templates Using a formative assessment templates in a book club setting can do wonders in your classroom. It can improve students’ comprehension, boost their confidence, and help to hone their communication and collaboration skills. But if we want to use these tools as effectively as we can, it’s important we take notes the right […]

3 Different Types of Formative Assessment that you can use Tomorrow!

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Different Types of Formative Assessment There are many types of formative assessments in the classroom. Some give immediate data while others may need further analysis. Using different types of formative assessment in the classroom gives varying levels of feedback to students and informs instruction. These 3 effective, formative assessment types of instruction will provide the […]

4 Formative Assessment Strategies

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Formative Assessment Strategies Is formative assessment feeling overwhelming to you? Having a good data collection system in place helps teachers to make effective, informed decisions. These formative assessment strategies will help you to get organized and ready to make data driven instruction a part of your teaching practice. If you are ready to begin teaching […]

A Quick Guide: What is Formative Assessment and How to Use it Best to Inform Instruction

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What is Formative Assessment? You hear formative assessment in meetings or when a colleague mentions it in conversation. You know you should be using formative assessment more often, but maybe it’s also a bit overwhelming or you don’t have to time to create extra assessments and analyze them. Let’s make it simple. Formative assessment is […]