Assessment

Formative and summative assessment play a role in children's literacy development. During children's development, they are just beginning to explore and find out what kind of readers they are. Running records and spelling inventories are great formal ways to assess children's needs and are used throughout all types of classrooms for any age or grade. Teachers can also informally asses the students. For example we can do an informal reading conference therefore we are checking for understanding. Teachers want to assess formative so they can then decide what to teach next. We can also assess by summative assessment. This would be testing after the end of a chapter in a book or at the end of a unit. This type of assessment aims to summarize what the student has learned up to a certain point.