Reading Skills and Strategies Quick Check Assessments

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Are you looking for a quick and easy way to assess your students in the common core reading standards? Check out these Reading Quick Checks! This mini-assessment is perfect to determine how your students are progressing in their reading skills and strategies.

These reading quick checks evaluate your students’ reading proficiency in the common core (and more) nonfiction areas of:

Paraphrasing Text

Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Sequencing Nonfiction Text

Cause and Effect

Comparing and Contrasting 2 different Nonfiction Texts & Within

Text Images (Timelines, Charts, How an Image contributes, etc)

Text Features (Captions, Text Changes, Images, Headings, Subheadings, White Space)

Identifying the Text Structure (Problem/Solution, Description)

Summarizing Nonfiction Text

Determining Importance

Determining the Meaning of a Word

And these fiction areas of text:

Comparing and Contrasting between and within two stories

Distinguishing between fact and opinion

Drawing Conclusions/Inference

Author’s Purpose

Text Organization

Prediction

Making Connections (T-T, T-W, T-S)

Asking Questions

Identifying the Setting, Theme, Problem, Solution, Plot, Dialogue

Character Traits, Character Change

The 5 W’s

Sequencing Events in a Story

Cause and effect in a story

Point of view

Retell (BME)

Visualizing

Mood

Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperboles, Personification, Alliteration, Figurative Language

Context Clues

This resource comes with three of the same quick checks to one sheet for easy copying or three different ones to a sheet. It also comes with a spreadsheet to help you keep track of your students’ progress with each reading skill and strategy!

This resource is perfect for determining what groups to place your students in for response to intervention or guided reading. It also makes great documentation for parent teacher conferences, child study meetings, and much more!