Assessing Each Strategy

Download these sheets if you want help assessing student mastery of strategies. Each guide includes Common Core alignment, possible text selections, a link to the corresponding Ready Reference Guide, various options for monitoring progress, and a 1–4 rubric scale.  

Comprehension
Use prior knowledge to predict and connect with text
Check for understanding; monitor and self-correct
Back up and reread
Make and adjust mental images; use text to confirm
Ask questions throughout the reading process
Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm
Infer and support with evidence
Recognize literary elements (genre, plot, character, setting, theme, problem/resolution)
Summarize text; include important details
Use main ideas and supporting details to determine importance
Use text features to learn important information (titles, headings, captions, graphic features)
Determine and analyze author's purpose and support with text
Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships
Compare and contrast within and between text
Accuracy
Fluency
Read texts that are a good fit
Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody
Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text
Reread text
Read voraciously (F)
Expand Vocabulary
Tune in to interesting words
Use prior knowledge and context clues
Use word parts
Use reference tools such as dictionary, thesauruses, and glossaries
Ask someone to define the word for you
Read voraciously (E)

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