St. Cecilia uses the DRA or Developmental Reading Assessment school wide to help monitor students’ individual reading behaviors. This assessment gives students the opportunity to read and practice reading behaviors with a teacher. This assessment was developed by a group of classroom teachers in Ohio who successfully implemented this efficient & effective form of feedback. We will administer it three times throughout the school year. In the fall, the kindergarten assessment is over phonemic awareness, initial sounds, and rhyming words. In the winter and spring, students will receive instruction and support as they read independently based on their reading level. They will also respond to literature in a variety of ways. St. Cecilia also uses the state wide literacy assessment TIER or FAST. This assessment is online and helps monitor student progress in different areas throughout the school year. In kindergarten this assessment is mostly over pre-reading skills and indicators such as letter identification, letter sounds, reading nonsense words, and beginning sounds in words. We will also be implementing assessments over math that come from the Go Math! program our school is implementing this year.