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Assessment of Extensive Reading
Assessment of Extensive Reading
5 Ouraiminextensivereadingistodevelopreadingskillsandgoodreadinghabits. Therefore,ourassessmentshouldfocusonreadingbehaviouranduseofreading strategiesratherthanthecontentofbookswhichhavebeenread. Readingbehaviourcanbeassessedonafivepointscale,suchasthescalebelow.Thisis quickandeasy. Learnersshouldseethescale(inEnglishorL1)sotheycanlearnhowtogetahigherscore. Studentreadscomfortablyinfullparagraphs.Canusuallyguessnextwordintext.Copeswith unknownwords,usinggrammaticalcontext,textcontextandvariationsofknownwordsin Englishandotherlanguages.Quicklycompletesmostbooksandiseagertoreadmore. Studentreadscomfortablyinfullsentences.Canreadsentencesaloudwithfluencyand expression.Usesstrategiestodeducemeaningofunknownwordsfromwidertext context.Usuallycompletesallbookswithasatisfyinglevelofcomprehension.Studentenjoys readingeventhoughs/heknowscomprehensionisnotcomplete. Studentreadsinfullsentencesandusespicturestoestablishgist.Atunknownwords,uses sentencecontexttoguessgrammaticalfunction.Usespicturesandwidertextcontextto guessmeaning.Usuallycompletesallbooksstarted,butonlyreadswhenprompted. Studentusuallyreadsphrasesbutnotfullsentences.Usestitleandpicturestoestablishgist beforereading.Sometimesstopsreadingatunknownwords.Triestoguessmeaningsusing phonicsandpictures.Sometimesfailstocompletebooks.Enjoyslisteningtobooks,butis reluctanttoreadwithoutaudiosupport. Readsonewordatatime.Doesnotprepareforreadingbystudyingpictures.Panicsand stopsreadingatunknownwords.Doesnotusephonics,textorpicturecontexttoguessthe word.Frequentlyabandonsreadingbeforecompletion,unlesshelpisgiven.Dislikesreading lessons.
Theseassessmentcardsareclearlydesignedforstudentsintheearlystagesoflearningtoread. Showingtheassessmentcardstostudents,eitherinEnglishortranslatedintoL1,allowsstudentsto seethetypeofbehaviourrequiredtoachieveahighergrade. Wecanusethisdesigntoprepareassessmentcardsformoreadvancedreadinglevelsinwhich studentsbegintointerpretthetext,andtocopewithnonlinearnarrativetextswhichuseflashbacks andsimilardevices.Thesamestyleofassessmentcardscanbeproducedforreadingnonfiction scientifictextsinwhichstudentsshouldusetheirbackgroundknowledgeindeveloping comprehension. Everytwomonths,theteachermayusethisfivepointscaletogradeeachstudentsreading behaviour.
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