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DRA3 by Pearson Assessments
Product Details
Overview
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.
Age range: Grades K-8
Age range: Grades K-8
Completion time: Variable, depending on book and student
Scoring options: Manual or online
Norms: Rate and Accuracy Charts included for all levels
System requirements: DRA3 can be used on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. Mac recommendations: Safari or Chrome. PC recommendations: Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Features
- More than 100 fiction and nonfiction books to provide your students ample choices and more stories for each reading level
- A screener to quickly estimate reading levels and where to begin instruction before you begin testing or for new students entering a school or district. Learn more about the Level Estimator.
- Teacher Observation Guides (record forms) to facilitate easier recording and efficient assigning of scores
- Teacher Guides to ensure important administration procedures, decision points, and other information are all easier to find, understand, and implement with fidelity
- Updated Reading Comprehension scoring criteria
- Reading Engagement as an optional component of Benchmark Assessment
- An online platform of all complementary training resources and related content for instruction and intervention
Support Options
- Phone
Districts
This list is compiled annually through our web surveys, internet research, and phone interviews with California school districts.
School Districts in California that use DRA3*
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