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    Cristina-Ștefania Tănase
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    This document discusses assessing students' extensive reading skills through behavioral observations rather than testing content comprehension. It proposes a 5-point scale to grade reading behaviors such as fluency, vocabulary strategies, and completion of books. The scale is intended to be shown to students so they understand how to progress to higher levels. Student portfolios called Dossiers can also record reading achievements over time such as diaries, reviews, and comments on adaptations of books into other media.

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    This document discusses assessing students' extensive reading skills through behavioral observations rather than testing content comprehension. It proposes a 5-point scale to grade reading behaviors such as fluency, vocabulary strategies, and completion of books. The scale is intended to be shown to students so they understand how to progress to higher levels. Student portfolios called Dossiers can also record reading achievements over time such as diaries, reviews, and comments on adaptations of books into other media.

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    Assessment of Extensive Reading

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    Cristina-Ștefania Tănase
    This document discusses assessing students' extensive reading skills through behavioral observations rather than testing content comprehension. It proposes a 5-point scale to grade reading behaviors such as fluency, vocabulary strategies, and completion of books. The scale is intended to be shown to students so they understand how to progress to higher levels. Student portfolios called Dossiers can also record reading achievements over time such as diaries, reviews, and comments on adaptations of books into other media.

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    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.

    The English Language Dossier


    TheDossier,whichispartoftheEnglishLanguagePortfolio,isakindofscrapbookinwhicheach studentrecordshis/herachievementsinlearningEnglishisagoodplaceforstudentstostoretheir readingdiary,abookreview,personalresponse,summaryorothermaterialsdevelopedfrom gradedreadingmaterials.Thestudentmayalsocommentontherecordingofthebook.Ifthebook 1|P a g e

    hasbeenpresentedasafilm,atelevisionprogramme,musical,orinsomeothermedium,the studentmightcommentonthese,mentioningdifferencesbetweentheoriginalbookandthe adaptation.Theseshouldberecordedwiththetitleofthebook,thegradinglevel,thedatestarted andthedatecompleted. Inthisway,thereadingofeachbook(eventhosestartedandabandoned)isrecordedasa learningachievement.Gradedreadingisaveryimportantlearningactivitywhichreinforces structuralfluency,developsvocabulary,buildsconfidenceandaddstobackgroundknowledge.

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