NOTES TO THE TEACHER Introduction Fresh Reads for Differentiated Test Practice is designed to provide differentiated practice in reading comprehension skills and to prepare children to take the Reading/Language Arts section of standardized tests, state tests, or teacher-made tests. The student book includes the weekly differentiated practice tests to strengthen comprehension skills taught in Scott Foresman Reading Street. This Teacher’s Manual includes the following: (1) notes on how to use the Fresh Read tests, (2) instructions on how to administer and score a fluency test, (3) a chart on which you may record the progress of your children, and (4) annotated copies of all of the Fresh Read tests indicating the correct answer to all questions. How to Use the Fresh Read Tests The purpose of the Fresh Read tests is to give weekly differentiated practice in target comprehension skills taught in Scott Foresman Reading Street. This book contains three Fresh Read tests for each week to be used independently from the main selection in Scott Foresman Reading Street. The tests consist of a “Fresh Read” leveled passage (or a drawing) and related comprehension items that focus on the target and review comprehension skills of the week but are written to address varying levels of proficiency—Strategic Intervention (SI), On-Level (OL), and Advanced (A). A code at the bottom of each page tells you the level of each test. Drawings are used instead of written passages in Unit 1 for the SI and OL tests, and in Unit 2 for the SI tests. In Unit 1 all test questions are intended to be read aloud to the children for all three levels of the tests. In Unit 2 the test questions are to be read aloud to the children only for the SI and OL tests. You may choose whether or not to read these and other tests aloud, based on your knowledge of your class. © Pearson Education 1 You can assess children’s proficiency levels using their responses to oral comprehension questions and their work on the