Gradebook

Rapport: A Great Word for Word Study

Word Study has become a popular component of many districts’ balanced literacy approach. Donald Bear’s Words Their Way is one of the more well-known programs to provide an alternative approach to traditional spelling instruction. This program includes spelling inventories, administered 2-3 times a year. Having finished our first full week of school, I just administered the first […]

Tracking Reading Assessments

With Chronicle, it’s easy to manage and track reading assessments. Here’s one option: Using the integrated grade book, I enter TC Assessments as the Grading Event Category (my district uses reading assessments developed by Columbia University’s Teachers College – hence, “TC Assessments”). I then insert the students’ reading levels prior to entering my class (see June […]