Developmental Reading Assessment | Third Edition

The DRA3 combines decades of teacher input with the latest research to validate the premier reading assessment of individual student reading behaviors in the classroom.

Benefits

DRA3 offers:

• More than 100 fiction and non-fiction books provide your students ample choice
• New word list screener to help estimate the best starting levels for younger students or new students entering a school or district
• Redesigned Teacher Observation Guides (record forms) to facilitate easier recording, and efficient assigning of scores
• Reorganized Teacher Guides ensuring important administration procedures, decision points, and other information are all easier to find, understand, and implemented with fidelity
• Updated comprehension scoring criteria
• Reading Engagement as an optional component of Benchmark Assessment

With DRA3, teachers can:

• Determine each student's independent or instructional reading level with an evaluation of three components of reading: reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and comprehension.
• Quickly determine students' instructional needs to create a plan documenting what each student needs to learn next with the Focus for Instruction. Once the assessment is complete, teachers can use this information to differentiate instruction and create instructional groups.
• As appropriate, a teacher can obtain more in-depth information for an individual student with DRA Word Analysis. This diagnostic assessment provides educators with a systematic means to observe how struggling and emerging readers attend to and work with various components of spoken and written words.

Features

What's new to DRA3?

DRA has continued to evolve over the past three decades. Here's what you can expect from the new DRA3!

• Level estimator
  New to DRA! Save time to quickly identify estimated student reading levels before you begin testing.
• Expanded book offering
  MORE brand new nonfiction and fiction texts means even more stories for each reading level.
• Online platform
  Assess, score, report, maintain student records all in one place through DRA3's new online platform, making it easier to assess and manage data all in one place! For a limited time, a 12-month online subscription good through the 2019-2020 school year for up to 30 students is included with each kit purchased.
• Training and implementation
  Making it easier for you... now all complementary and paid training resources for related content for instruction and intervention are available online.
  Download the side-by-side comparison chart.

DRA's new consolidated digital offering:

• Provides educators data entry and administration in a new browser-based solution that can be used on any compatible device (e.g., laptop, desktop or tablet)
• Offers expanded reporting options beyond those available from a paper-only assessment
• Easily captures, stores, and reports DRA3 student data at the student, class, school, district, or even state level

DRA3's instructional guidance helps reading teachers interpret DRA3 scores and use them to improve classroom instruction, by providing:

• Comparisons to other familiar leveling systems
• Strategies teachers can use to build customized lesson plans based on DRA3 student and classroom scores
• Time-tested ideas introduced in DRA2's "Focus for Instruction" and "Moving into Instruction" components
• Clearer guidance decision points for efficient and appropriate use of DRA3 Benchmark Assessment with Word Analysis and/or Progress Monitoring

The following resources are available for DRA3.

• DRA3 Information Sheet
• Video: The importance of reading assessments Presented by: DRA authors Joetta Beaver and Mark Carter, PhD
• Video: Animated promo video