DRA2 PROGRESS MONITORING ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

Each assessment includes a one-page, leveled Student Passage and an accompanying Teacher Observation Guide. This assessment is a brief, one-on-one reading conference that provides in-depth information gained from the analysis of student behaviors and oral responses. The assessment conference includes these parts:

·  Monitor Oral Reading Fluency The student reads a one-page instructional-level passage in three or fewer minutes as the teacher takes a record of the student’s oral reading. The teacher records the student’s oral reading rate beginning with Level 14.

·  Monitor Comprehension Immediately after reading a passage aloud, the student responds orally to teacher prompts that monitor comprehension. For fictional passages, students respond orally to prompts about characters, setting, and plot. For informational passages, students respond orally to prompts about main (important) ideas and supporting details.

·  In-Depth Progress Monitoring The student then responds to two prompts that assess understanding of the following comprehension skills: compare and contrast, cause and effect, draw conclusions, or sequence of events. To conclude the conference, the student responds to prompts that assess various skills, including multiple-meaning words, use of context clues, and reading words, such as base words and affixes and multisyllabic words.

DRA2 Progress Monitoring Assessment Student Passages

The Progress Monitoring Assessment can be used to monitor at-risk readers in late first grade through sixth grade. At each grade level the Student Passages are arranged in order of difficulty and include both fiction and nonfiction passages. The printable Student Passages and the Teacher Observation Guides are on the Grade Level File Cabinet.

DRA2 Levels / Approximate Grade Level / Number of Progress Monitoring Assessment Passages / Number of Fictional Texts / Number of Nonfiction Texts
4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18* / 1 / 20 / 13 / 7
20,24,28 / 2 / 15 / 8 / 7
30,34,38 / 3 / 15 / 7 / 8
40 / 4 / 15 / 7 / 8
50 / 5 / 15 / 7 / 8
60 / 6 / 15 / 7 / 8

*Level 18 may be included in either first or second grade depending on your school or district.

DRA2 Level / Passage# / Fiction Titles / Passage # / Non-Fiction Titles
4 / 1F
2F / Pig Likes Mud
Sun and Rain
6 / 1F
2F / Two Pets
Where Is Baby Duck?
8 / 1F
2F / Kim Has a New Friend
Mike and Pete
10 / 2F / Tracks / 1NF / On a Farm
12 / 2F / In the Yard / 1NF / Spend and Save
14 / 2F / The Race / 1NF / What Do Plants Need?
16 / 1F
4F / A Tadpole Grows Up
Summer Fun / 2NF
3NF / Day and Night
Travel
18 / 1F
2F / The Biggest Surprise
River Find / 3NF
4NF / America's First Flag
The Pilgrims in America
20 / 1F
3F
5F / What Should We Be?
The Surprise Party
Mouse in the Country / 2NF
4NF / Time for Fun
A Big Gift
24 / 1F
3F / The Locket
The Contest / 2NF
4NF
5NF / One Red Paper Clip: The Best Trade
Turtle? Tortoise? What's the Difference?
Mysterious Pluto: The Dwarf Planet
28 / 1F
3F
5F / The Forest Walk
Joe's Dream
Grandma's Birthday Card / 2NF
4NF / Be a Voter!
What's Gravity?
30 / 2F
4F / The New Pet
Babysitting! / 1NF
3NF
5NF / What Is a Community?
Cell Phones Everywhere!
Small Towns and Big Cities
34 / 1F
2F
3F / Katie or Katharine?
The Spelling Bee
The Artists / 4NF
5NF / Baseball's Home Run King: Hank Aaron
Pongal: A Time to Celebrate
38 / 1F
3F / Twin Sisters
Benched / 2NF
4NF
5NF / The Statue of Liberty
Good Vibrations Sound the Same
Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources of Energy
40 / 2F - Early
4F - Early
6F - Mid
8F - Mid
10F - Mid
11F - Late
12F - Late
14F - Late / A Dream Come True
The Night Sky
Something New
Robot Triathlon
A Night in the Woods
Women Get the Vote!
The Soccer Team
The House of Middle Ages / 1NF - Early
3NF - Early
5NF - Early
7NF - Mid
9NF - Mid
13NF - Late
15NF- Late / Fossils: Clues to Life Long Ago
Spirit and Opportunity
Food Makers in the Food Chain
The Desert Racer
Lewis and Clark
Getting to the Gold
Navajo Code Talkers
DRA2 Level / Passage # / Fiction Titles / Passage # / Non-Fiction Titles
50 / 1F - Early
2F - Early
6F - Mid
8F - Mid
9F - Mid
13F - Late
14F - Late / Computer Pals
Thanksgiving Gift
Which Team Wins?
Ben Franklin's Secret
Lights Out
The Tryout
Pizza! / 3NF - Early
4NF - Early
5NF - Early
7NF - Mid
10NF - Mid
11NF - Late
12NF - Late
15NF - Late / Melting Glaciers
The Boston Tea Party
Wanted: Harriet Tubman
Living Night-Lights
1,000 Times a Day
Robots: Real or Not?
Immigrant Waves
A Star Is Born
60 / 2F - Early
4F - Early
6F - Mid
10F - Mid
11F - Late
12F - Late
14F - Late / Where's the Cow?
Brother!
Victory
On Safari
Not One Drop of Blood
Track Meet
Buried Treasure / 1NF - Early
3NF - Early
5NF - Early
7NF - Mid
8NF - Mid
9NF - Mid
13NF - Late
15NF - Late / The Mummies of Ancient Egypt
The Fire That Changed History
Global Positioning System
Cave Painting
Haiti Earthquake 2010
Secrets in String
A Mysterious Disease
A Volcano in Ancent Italy