AS S E S S M E NT...Fast Track Reading’s three powerful strands: Word Work, Comprehension, and...
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C O M P R E H E N S I O N
A S S E S S M E N T
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Fast Track Reading’s first goal is to accelerate your delayedreaders in a minimum amount of time. Designed for fourth-through eighth-grade readers who are two or more years belowgrade level, Fast Track Reading combines direct, explicit skillsand phonics instruction with comprehension coaching andfluency practice.
To get started on the fast track to literacy, use the samplematerials included in this guide to see for yourself how effective
a true intervention program can be. Familiarize yourself withFast Track Reading’s three powerful strands: Word Work,Comprehension, and Fluency. These straightforward teacher andstudent resources take a scaffolded approach, and will accelerateyour delayed readers toward reading—and understanding—ontheir own.
Components of the ProgramComponents of the Program
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FluencyStrandPhonics
ListeningComprehension
Level 1
ComprehensionLevels 2–7
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ComprehensionStrand
Word Study
PhonologicalAwareness
Word WorkStrand
ComprehensionPlacement Assessment
Program Strandsand Components
Word Work Strand• 6 each of 12 Decodable Books• 6 each of 12 Decodable Plays• Fast Track Reading Word Work Assessment
Guide• Fast Track Reading Word Work Phonics
Teacher Guide• Fast Track Reading Word Work Word Study
Teacher Guide• MatchWord™ CD-ROM and Teacher Guide
• 6 each of 36 magazine anthologies• Fast Track Reading Comprehension
Placement Assessment• Fast Track Reading Oral Comprehension
Teacher Guide, Level 1• Fast Track Reading Comprehension Teacher
Guides, Levels 2–7• Fast Track Reading Comprehension
Evaluation Teacher Guides, Levels 2–7
Comprehension Strand
Fluenc y Strand• 6 each of 72 Fluency Cards• 6 Fluency CDs• 1 each of 36 chapter books• Fast Track Reading Fluency Teacher Guides,
Levels 2–7
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Pages 10–11, Comprehension Placement Assessment
Comprehension Placement AssessmentThe Fast Track Reading Comprehension Placement Assessment is the firststep in the Fast Track Reading program. Students read a series ofgraded passages (as shown here) to the teacher. When students arriveat the level where they are decoding the text with a 90–94 percentaccuracy rate, they are placed at that level. Students assessed atLevel 1 begin Fast Track Reading in the Word Work Strand; studentsassessed at Levels 2–7 will move between the Word Work andComprehension Strands.
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Pages 4–5, Word Work Assessment Guide
Word Work Assessment GuideThe Word Work Assessment Guide places students within the correctdecodable book and word study skill lesson. Assessments should be usedto test students at the beginning of instruction and again uponcompletion of instruction. They are designed to help teachers evaluate arange of skill areas, including phonological awareness, phonics anddecoding, high-frequency words, and word study skills, as shown onpages 3–5.
Phonological AwarenessThe assessments in the phonological awareness section are designed to evaluate howwell your students segment, blend, and manipulate sounds. The student is asked tolisten to each word, or series of sounds, and then respond by identifying, for instance,the initial, medial, or final sound.
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Page 8, Word Work Assessment Guide
Phonics and DecodingAssessments in this section determinestudents’ understanding of syllablepatterns and their ability to decipherpseudowords. Using these assessments,the teacher shows the student lists ofpseudowords and asks them to decodeand say as many as possible in eachsection.
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High-Frequency WordsThe High-Frequency Words Quickümay be used repeatedly to measurestudents’ ability to identify and readhigh-frequency words. The student isgiven a list of words that correspondsto the decodable book they are readingand is asked to read each word asquickly as possible. The teacher recordsthe number of words read correctly inone minute.
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