Differentiated Reading with an instant assessment tool

Agnes Kim

In the classroom, assess the reading level of a student instantly is difficult. It takes long time to go and usually English teachers in Korea teaches more than 100 students. So Here's my simple suggestion how to diagnosis your students in a shot time properly. This lesson plan contains peer assessment too, so the teachers will apply these tools.

Past tense : I learned about green energy. (5/7)

Source of Inspiration / Experimental Goal

• Simple diagnosis tool for the differentiated lesson. (Students will get different worksheets based on their level.) 
• Practicing reading passage fluently. (in their level - differentiated lesson)
  (Students will their own conversation with their partner. Each student will have a different passage to read. In pairs, they will check their reading on their own.
• Reading comprehension check by retelling.

Language Skills: Reading comprehension (reading & retelling)

Learning Objective: After this lesson, students will read the passage more fluently in a natural speed. Also the students will express what they read for checking their comprehension.Specially, they need to retell the story after they read the passage.

Detailed Procedure

Activity/Time	Details	TEE Language Used
Review the  new words and expressions (5’)	Review : Scan, Sort, Earn	With your group members, please scan the puzzle and find as many past tense verbs as you can. The letters should be placed next to each other. But you can use the letter again. When you find a past tense verb, please think about what is the present tense of the verb. <ICQs> Q. Will you do that for alone? Q. Which word should I find, “did” or “do”? Q. When you get a past tense verb, what should you do then?
Level test for leveled writing (5’)	Diagnosis students’ reading level	During 1 minute, Please read the story aloud  on your own. If you don’t know how to read a word, draw a line under the word and keep reading. Also if you don’t know the meaning of a word, please circle the word and keep reading. (After reading) 1. Count how many words you read during 1 minute  and write down the number in the first cell. 2. Count how many words you can’t read  and write down the number in the second cell. 3.Count how many words you don’t know and write down the number in the third cell. 4.The total score will be the composite score after taking away from the first word counts.
	Find their level	If your composite score is ____, you are Oxford group. If your composite score is ____, you are Yale group. If your composite score is ____, you are Harvard group. If your composite score is ____, you are Cornell group.
Meet their partner and read the story (15’)	Each pair will read the story and retell the story.	Find a student who is in the same group and make a pair. One will be A, and the other will B. 1. (A’s reading & retelling) During the first round, A will read the story to B aloud. While the story is being read, B will arrange the cards in order. After the reading, A will retell the story. When A cannot say anything, B will give some cue to A using the picture cards. B will check A’s retelling. After the retelling, B gives feedback about how was A’s retelling.
		2. (B’s reading & retelling) During the second round, B will read the story to A aloud. While the story, A will arrange the card in order. After the reading, B will retell the story. When B cannot say anything, A will give some cue to B using the picture cards. A will check B’s retelling. After the retelling, A gives feedback about how was B’s retelling.
		<ICQs> Q.Who’s going to read this time? Raise your hands. Q.While you listen to the story, what will you do? Q.Who will retell the story after the story reading?
Comprehension checking and writing (5’)	Check comprehension	With your partner, make 3 questions about what you read. Answer the three questions what you get from other friends. Write down the words in your notebook that you don’t know. Write down today’s record in your notebook and let’s compare our records to how we  do next month.

Materials for this lesson(Link)

1.Reading cards (passage part, word & picture part) - differentiated into 4 levels #1, #2

2.Diagnosis passage

3.Assessment plan

4.Peer evaluation sheet

(public links here)