Our school is a small, rural PreK through fifth-grade school with a student population of 246. The students here work hard and seem to always have a positive attitude about school. They enjoy learning new things and being a part of the community here. Being in a rural school makes it difficult for our students to participate in team sports that are offered in the closest town. Many of our students come from low-income homes, and they are faced with difficult situations.
Our students have good hearts, and our faculty and staff strive to give them as many opportunities for success as we possibly can.
Being at school is sometimes their only opportunity to see a different world other than the one that they live in every day.
My Project
This project is for the Fountas and Pinnell reading assessment kits, the Benchmark Assessment System. I do inclusion and go into the regular classroom to support teachers and students with special needs in the general education classroom. We only have one kit to share and it is often not available. I would like to have an assessment kit to assess students during our inclusion time.
The Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Systems provide teachers with precise tools and texts to observe and quantify specific reading behaviors, and then interpret and use that data to plan meaningful instruction.
Using the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Systems to determine student’s independent and instructional reading levels, teachers are able to observe student reading behaviors one-on-one, engage in comprehension conversations that go beyond retelling, and make informed decisions that connect assessment to instruction.
It is the most reliable resource to accurately and reliably identify each child’s instructional and independent reading levels according to the F&P Text Level Gradient, A–Z and document their progress through one-on-one formative and summative assessments.
The Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Systems provide teachers with precise tools and texts to observe and quantify specific reading behaviors, and then interpret and use that data to plan meaningful instruction. I will use the magnetic bins and trays to organize my assessment materials.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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