Developmental Reading Assessment Clause Samples

Developmental Reading Assessment. (DRA)27: Give educators the tools they need to observe and document student reading abilities as well as inform instructional practice. DRA determines each student’s independent (or instructional) level with an evaluation of three components of reading: reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and comprehension. The assessment also determine student’s instructional needs with the completed Continuum. Based on those needs, teachers create a plan documenting what each student needs to learn next with the Focus for Instruction. Once the assessment is complete, teachers can used this information to differentiate instruction and create instructional groups. Teachers are able to obtain in-depth information with DRA Word Analysis, included with DRA2 K-3. This diagnostic assessment provides educators with a systematic means to observe how struggling and emerging readers attend to and work with various components of spoken and written words.