| Testing Fundamentals Program Overview |
| Testing Fundamentals is a research based and classroom tested reading comprehension intervention program that prepares students for standardized tests utilizing authentic literature ("real books") and lessons based on models of best practice. Testing Fundamentals has been utilized successfully in Whole-Class Settings and/or with Small Groups. |
Accompanying Lessons focus on 4 critical skill areas students need to master in order to become both competent readers and effective test takers:
- Finding Word Meaning in Context: Vocabulary
- Literal Questions: Paying attention to detail
- Determining Importance: Finding the main idea
- Inferential Questions: Reading the unwritten word
Each program includes pre and post tests, brief assessments that provide diagnostic accuracy for identifying students that may be at risk in particular skill areas. |
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| Progress Monitoring and Assessment Components |
Includes 48 books (6 copies of 8 on-level texts)
and 16 skill checks (4 skill checks in each of
the 4 skill areas).
With teacher support students are guided through the reading of on-level texts and the completion of corresponding skill checks. |
- Provide recurring and repetitive practice and assessment in particular skill areas.
- Each packet includes 16 passages followed by 10 multiple choice questions students answer independently (4 assessments in each of the 4 skill areas).
- Passages are written across a variety of different genre (e.g. poetry, fiction and nonfiction) and diverse text formats and structures (e.g. articles, poems and folktales).
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Includes 6 copies of a single title and 16 assessments
(4 assessments in each of the 4 skill areas)
- Independently students read a selection from an authentic text and answer 15 multiple choice questions in a particular skill area.
- Provides recurring assessement opportunities to determine if students demonstrate the ability to apply the skills and strategies taught as readers as well as test-takers.
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