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                 The Proficient Reader Record:
                 Genre Assessment For Informational,
                 Biographical, and Procedural Text
                                                  by Sheila Muldaur 
 
 

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Proficient Reader Record assessment module
that examine the reader’s knowledge of the
reading process, comprehension, and text
features of
Nonfiction - informational text,
 biography, and procedural text


  
2004  pb 144 pages     Item# 534
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1-57274-669-6    $23.95

  
                    
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    Assessments for Fables, Fairy Tales, and
    Fantasies
    

   The Proficient Reader Record: Genre
   Assessment for Poetry and Plays
  
   

 
         
         
   
 
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Description:

The reading passages booklet for this module consists of two informational texts (nonfiction), two biographical texts, and two procedural texts (instructions) from children’s books and magazines. They are presented in color in their entirety, including illustrations, exactly as original published. The student who the teacher is evaluating reads the passage directly from this booklet.


 
 

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Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1          Directions for Administering, Evaluating and
                        Using the Data

            Administer Form 1: Assessing Reading Process
            Administer Form 2: Genre Understandings
            Evaluate Forms 1 and 2 on Form 3: Evaluation
            Using the Information

Chapter 2          Understanding and Evaluating Student
                        Responses to Informational Texts

            Identify Genre: Questions G1 and G2
            Be Informed: Questions G3 and G4
            Integrate Content: Question G5
            Create Word Meaning: Question G6
            Interpret Graphic Features: Question G7
            Interpret Print Features: Questions G8 and G9
            Use Reading For Writing: G10 and G11
            Summary

Chapter 3          Understanding and Evaluating Student
                        Responses to Biographies

            Identify Genre: Questions G1 to G3
            Be Informed about Subject: Questions G4 and G5
            Integrate Content: Question G6
            Create Word Meaning: Question G7
            Interpret Graphic Features: Questions G8 to G9
            Use Reading For Writing: Questions G10 to G11
            Summary

Chapter 4          Understanding and Evaluating Student
                        Responses to Procedural Texts

            Identify Genre: Questions G1 and G2
            Follow Structure: Questions G3 to G6
            Recognize Guidelines: Question G7
            Create Word Meaning: Question G8
            Interpret Graphic Features: G9 to G10
            Use Reading For Writing: G11 to G12
            Summary 

Appendices

Appendix 1: Assessment Forms for Duplication: Informational
Text

Form 1: Assessing Reading Process “Mississippi Flood”
Form 2: Assessing Genre Understandings “Mississippi Flood”
Form 1: Assessing Reading Process “The Life Cycle of Birds”
Form 2: Assessing Genre Understandings “The Life Cycle of
            Birds”
Form 3: Evaluation: Informational Text
Form 7: Class Composite: Assessing Genre Understandings:
            Informational 

Appendix 2: Assessment Forms for Duplication: Biography
Form 1: Assessing Reading Process “Astronaut Mae Jemison”
Form 2: Assessing Genre Understandings “Astronaut Mae
            Jemison”

Form 1: Assessing Reading Process “Ben Franklin”
Form 2: Assessing Genre Understandings “Ben Franklin”
Form 3: Evaluation: Biography
Form 7: Class Composite: Assessing Genre Understandings:
            Biography  

Appendix 3: Assessment Forms for Duplication: Procedural Text

Form 1: Assessing Reading Process “Magic Bird in a Cage or
            How to Make a Thaumatrope”
Form 2: Assessing Genre Understandings “Magic Bird in a Cage
            or How to Make a Thaumatrope”

Form 1: Assessing Reading Process “Make a Pin-hole Camera”
Form 2: Assessing Genre Understandings “Make a Pin-hole
            Camera”
Form 3: Evaluation: Procedural Text
Form 7: Class Composite: Assessing Genre Understandings:
            Procedural 

Appendix 4: Other Data Collection Forms
Form 4: Class Composite: Proficiency Levels
Form 5: Class Composite: Pre and Post Proficiency Levels
Form 6: Class Composite: Assessing Reading Process 

Bibliography 

Index


 
 

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Author Bio:

Sheila Muldaur makes her home on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. She works in Oak Bluffs at a K-8 school, where she has taught since 1983 at the primary, intermediate, and middle school levels. Her classroom is a busy place where children read and write with gusto. Sheila uses the Proficient Reader Record with her own students, gaining information that guides her instruction and shows student growth. Since 1994, Sheila has worked with teachers across the country to develop their instruction through Literacy Learning summer institutes and during the school year in their own classrooms as a consultant with The Learning Network®.

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