12/19/2023 0 Comments Texas primary reading inventory![]() ![]() ![]() Why can’t we do this? The simple answer would be that education law and practice is under governance the individual states. Why Can’t We Decide to Work Together on Reading? We need one inventory that the whole country uses. That’s too much time when you have to do the whole class.ĭIBELS comes out with a new version in the fall, but we don’t need a new version of an inventory which can’t be compared with other schools’ inventories. Doing that worksheet is a process which takes at least ten minutes per student. In particular using DIBELS, which has a complicated computation that means you can only have conclusive reading level data three times a year, unless you’re willing to get out a worksheet and do the math yourself. If we had a single primary reading inventory, across states and across the country, we could talk about which kids, which programs, which approaches are getting better results.Īt times, it almost seems like a conspiracy. Each of these inventories has strengths, but using them does not translate into comparable data that teachers, parents, administrators and legislators can use to figure out what works. The ones I have used in the last fourteen years include TPRI - Texas Primary Reading Inventory - Fountas and Pinnell - DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) and DIBELS. Parents and politicians may not know that there are so many primary reading inventories. One Primary Reading Inventory to Rule Them All? The problem with that is by the time a student is in 4th grade it’s getting pretty late to help them with reading problems. In fourth grade, the NAEP exams come and we have data. With no single primary reading inventory to reference, there’s no way to compare results. This week there’s something else that’s been much on my mind: Part of the reason for the Reading Wars is that in primary (K-2), no one can figure out which reading instructional practices are working, when compared to other practices, across schools and states. Last week I was trying to explain why there are so many kids in America that can’t read. To Shut Down the Reading Wars, we Need A High-Quality, Nationally Normed K-2 Primary Reading Inventory. ![]()
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