DRA

The DRA is an assessment tool that we use district wide to assess a student's progress in reading. There are two criteria that we use to score a student on his/her reading level. Both of these criteria have to be met in order for the student to pass the text level. If only one criteria is met the student does not pass the text level.

1) The child reads a text or portion of a text orally to the teacher. The teacher analyzes the mistakes that were made while reading and determines a percentage of accuracy that the student read the text. In order to pass an accuracy of 94% must be met.

2) Upon conclusion of reading the text, the student then must retell the story to the teacher. As the student retells the story, the teacher is marking what events the student is retelling, the characters and the order of the events. This is then plugged into a scoring rubric that determines the students reading comprehension level. In order to pass the student must get a score of 16 or higher.

Below you will see a picture of the scoring rubric. There are six categories that we score with the range in each category being from a 1 to a 4. After completing the rubric we will total all the numbers which in turn must equal 16 or higher to pass.

Lit Library

We have a program that we utilize throughout the school year to help provide consistent practice with reading appropriate level books. Each day your child (providing they filled out a permission slip) gets to go to the library and pick out a book. This book is then taken home and read orally to a parent/family member. The child is then scored with T.H. (too hard) more than 5 errors, J.R. (just right) 1-3 errors or E (easy) 0 errors. Once the student has received 3 consecutive E's in a row, the student will get bumped up a text level. The literacy library books are leveled similar to the DRA scale. We use animals to represent the text level of the book. Below you will find a list of the animals and the DRA level they correspond with. Our biggest goal is to continue to move to higher numbers on Literacy Library.

DRA Cont.

We test students in the fall and in the spring to determine if they are reading on level.

1) In order to be considered reading proficiently as a 1st grader in the fall the student must read and pass a text level 3 to 4.

2) In order to be considered reading proficiently as a 1st grader in the spring the student must read and pass a text level 16 to 18.

Below is a list of the DRA text levels to give you an understanding, how the text level numbers work.

          Text Levels

Lit Library Cont.

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