The Timed Fluency reading assessment is given to kindergarten students
before the last reporting period in June. All other students are
given the assessment three times a year, before each reporting period.
This assessment helps determine growth in reading by using the following
qualitative features:
- Student reads with appropriate
speed and accuracy.
- Student uses effective strategies to decode words.
- Student adjusts pace according to level of text difficulty.
- Student reads using expression and inflection.
- Student possesses prediction orientation (seems to
look ahead when reading to change inflection for punctuation
marks).
- Student self-monitors what he/she is reading (self
corrects when an error distorts the meaning of a sentence or
paragraph).
- Student makes only meaning preservation errors (e.g. "home" for "house").
- Words that appear repeatedly throughout the text are
read automatically and become "sight" words.