Assessments
Formative
Performace
Interim/Benchmark
Diagnostic
Definition: Process of gathering evidence of students learning, a way to provide feedback, and adjust instructions strategies to enhance achievement.
Definition: Periodic testing throughout the school year, and low-level/little or no feedback.
Definition: An approach that requires students to directly demonstrate what they know and are able to do through open-ended tasks.
Summative
Definition: The purpose is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
Definition: It is used so teachers can collect information about a student's strengths and weaknesses in a skill area.
Journals: Student will need to describe the setting in a folktale they read as a class.
Exit Ticket: Students will need to write 2 things they learned from the lesson and one question they may still have.
Spelling Test: Students will take weekly spelling test over new words they have learned that week.
STAAR: State standar testing given to students at the end of the year.
Essay: Can be assessed on previous learning of the unit.
Istation : These are test given at the end of units to assess skills on that specific unit.
Running Record This is a method of assessing a child's reading level that is specific to the Reading Recovery approach to remedial reading instruction.
Oral presentation debate: Students can orally debate a topic discussed in class.
Student work samples: These can be informal writing samples
High Frequency Sight Word lists: These are commonly used sight words that students are encouraged to memorize.
HOT questions
Guiding
Closing
Opening
What chart do we use when solving word problems? 
What is the first think you do when solving for a problem?
If you are taking away, are you adding or subtracting 
If you are adding more, are you adding or subtracting? 
What words in the problem helped you to know you are adding? 
What words in the problem helped you to know you are subtracting?