Sample Developing Phase Reading Checklist and Rating Scale

Student's Name: ___________________________________ Rating Scale:
1 = Seldom
2 = Sometimes
3 = Consistently

 

Behaviors Comments and Dates Assessed
Before Reading        
 
__ Considers what he or she already knows about the topic   1 2 3
 
__ Make predictions about the text   1 2 3
 
__ Poses questions about the text   1 2 3
 
__ Sets a purpose for reading   1 2 3
 
         
 
During Reading        
 
__ Connects prior knowledge with text   1 2 3
 
__ Uses appropriate cueing systems in text to construct meaning   1 2 3
 
__ Uses specific word attack strategies (e.g., context, structural analysis, sound, dictionary)   1 2 3
 
__ Predicts and confirms predictions   1 2 3
 
__ Makes inferences and explains why   1 2 3
 
__ Pictures what is being read   1 2 3
 
__ Recognizes organizational patterns of text   1 2 3
 
__ Identifies key points or events   1 2 3
 
__ Self-corrects and rereads when it does not make sense   1 2 3
 
__ Monitors for meaning during oral and silent reading   1 2 3
 
__ Uses an appropriate reading rate   1 2 3
 
         
 
After Reading        
 
__ Forms and supports opinions about text   1 2 3
 
__ Summarizes important ideas   1 2 3
 
__ Draws conclusions   1 2 3
 
__ Answers questions and poses new questions   1 2 3
 
__ Judges accuracy, credibility, and logic of text   1 2 3
 
__ Makes connections with other texts, events in own life   1 2 3
 
__ Compares texts   1 2 3
 
__ Extends experience by further reading, writing, drawing, dramatizing, researching, making notes, drawing pictures, and mapping ideas   1 2 3
 
__ Identifies basic genre and considers author's or illustrator's craft   1 2 3