Houghton Mifflin Leveled Reading Passages Assessment Kit

Houghton Mifflin's Leveled Reading Passages Assessment Kit offers materials you need to assess and evaluate students' reading levels, as well as their reading skills and use of strategies. Copies of this kit are available for ESes to check out at the Modesto Learning Center.

The Leveled Reading Passages are individually administered and scored. The passages are specifically designed for diagnostic and assessment purposes and the results will provide you with in depth information about each students reading abilities and instructional reading level. The Leveled Reading Passages Assessment Kit helps you evaluate students' phonics and decoding skills, reading fluency, reading accuracy, reading comprehension skills, reading rate, and use of reading strategies.

The Five Step Procedure:

1. The student reads the Word Lists to help you determine which passage to begin with.

2. You introduce the reading passage and build background if necessary.

3. The student reads the Leveled Reading Passage and the teacher records the oral reading accuracy, oral and silent reading times and fluency rates.

4. The student retells the story and you evaluate the retelling.

5. The student answers comprehension questions and you score the responses.

Repeat steps 2-5 for each Level Reading Passage you administer.