Assessment Of Story Comprehension

Available in packs of ten, these are the forms needed to conduct the complete the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC(TM)). The record forms contain six brief tests, each with a teacher script, story, and eight literal and inferential comprehension questions. Listening comprehension during shared storybook reading is a foundational skill--and an indicator that children are ready for the language demands of kindergarten. With the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC), pre-K programs finally have a fast, easy way to measure the story comprehension of children ages 3-5 identify children who may need language intervention monitor the progress of children receiving intervention determine when comprehension has meaningfully improved A quick check that takes just 3 minutes to complete, the ASC is the sensitive, reliable tool that programs need to test the comprehension skills of all young learners and pick up even small improvements as the school year progresses. It's an essential tool for assessing and monitoring a wide range of young children, including those with language impairments and developmental disabilities, children at risk for early literacy difficulties, and young English language learners (ELLs). Used on its own or in tandem with Story Friends(TM) and PAth to Literacy, the ASC is the key to assessing and improving an essential building block of reading success and school readiness. Learn more about ASC. Learn more about the complete Multitiered Interventions for Language & Literacy in Early Childhood (MILLIE " ) product suite.

"The ASC Tool: The Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC) measures preschool children's story comprehension and can be used both to identify children who need language intervention and to monitor progress. There are six ASC forms, each of which includes a teacher script with a brief story followed by eight literal and inferential comprehension questions, including one vocabulary question; responses are recorded and scored on a 0-1-2 scale. The ASC takes about 3 minutes to administer and 1 minute to score. The ASC Manual: The ASC Manual is organized in 5 chapters that introduce the assessment tool and its components and provide detailed guidelines on how to administer the ASC, score responses, and utilize the results. Appendices provide basic and extended scoring guides, fidelity checklists, and two practice sets of materials for training examiners"--

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for bilinguals. This can be partially explained by the lack of cross-culturally robust, cross-linguistic instruments targeting early narration. This book presents an inference-based model of narrative comprehension and a tool that grew out of a large-scale European project on multilingualism. Covering a range of language settings, the book uses the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives to answer the question which narrative comprehension skills (bilingual) children can be expected to master at a certain age, and explores how such comprehension is affected (or not affected) by linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Linking theory to method, the book will appeal to researchers in linguistics and psychology and graduate students interested in narrative, multilingualism, and language acquisition.

Developed by renowned author Ellin Keene, Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies is an ideal tool for assessing students' reading comprehension. This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text. The book contains four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text. Each assessment is accompanied by a rubric that allows you to document students' thinking and then score and monitor their growth. Strategies assessed include thinking aloud, using schema, inferring, asking questions, determining.

The volume identifies critical issues and cutting-edge research in assessing children's reading comprehension.

A useful guide to best practice including reviews of the latest and most helpful tests available. In Part One, contributors discuss the theory of reading assessment including issues such as screening, legal aspects, memory and visual problems, computer based assessment and the dyslexias. Part Two contains the review section where experts give comprehensive reviews of named tests.