Developmental Reading Assessment | Third Edition
DRA™3- DRA3 provides educators and their classrooms a criterion-based, authentic benchmark/interim assessment evaluating student reading level and reading behaviors in Kindergarten through Grade 8. DRA3 determines independent or instructional levels on reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and reading comprehension. For struggling readers, DRA3 helps create instructional groupings and informs instructional practice through progress monitoring and targeted skill-based interventions. The DRA3 Word Analysis is a collection of brief structured literacy assessment tasks with scripted lessons for instruction. The DRA3 is the most current version of the DRA. See our Guidance on using this assessment remotely.
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DRA3 Grades K-3 Benchmark Books Subscription 1 Year (Digital)
A103000232504 Qualification Level AIncludes teacher license for 2022–2023 academic year to access digital benchmark books; prior kit purchase required for administration and scoring
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Overview
- Publication date:
- 2019
- Age range:
- Grades K-8
- Qualification level:
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A
- Completion time:
- Variable, depending on book and student
- Scoring options:
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Manual or online
- Norms:
- Rate and Accuracy Charts included for all levels
- System requirements:
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DRA3 can be used on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. Mac recommendations: Safari or Chrome. PC recommendations: Firefox or Internet Explorer.
- Telepractice:
- Remote learning guidance
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The DRA3 combines three decades of teacher input with the latest research to validate the well-known observational reading assessment of individual student reading behaviors in the classroom. With DRA3, teachers can:Determine each student's independent or instructional reading level with an evaluation of three components of reading using the Benchmark Assessment: reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and reading comprehension.
DRA3's instructional guidance helps reading teachers interpret DRA3 scores and use them to improve classroom instruction. Allowing comparisons to other familiar leveling systems and with the help of the Focus for Instruction and Moving into Instruction components, teachers can build customized lesson plans based on DRA3 scores. Most importantly, the DRA3 provides clear decision points for efficient and appropriate use of DRA3 Benchmark Assessment with the additional Word Analysis resource for struggling readers and/or the Progress Monitoring Assessment. The DRA3 has many updates from the previous version:
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