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If you are unfamiliar with the DAR, please scroll down for the complete description from the publisher.
This is a complete and brand new DAR boxed testing suite, form A. One of the student test packs was opened but never used and all materials are intact. These assessments are the best, evidence-based assessment of the component skills necessary for silent reading comprehension. DAR-2 is the most current version available and as you can see from the screenshots taken this morning, currently costs $346 plus shipping. Education programs struggle with insufficient funding quite enough without paying that price! I have both forms A and B available and will absolutely discount them if you’d like both sets. I’m also making them available for local pickup (central Massachusetts), to save the shipping expense. Please feel free to message me with any questions!
Publisher Description:
Features
Helps classroom teachers identify students who need help with reading
Identifies individuals or groups for reading instruction related to Title I Programs
Allows reading specialists and reading clinicians to diagnose a student’s difficulties in reading
Provides an individualized approach to reading assessment for Adult Literacy Programs
Can be used with students of all ages and abilities
Offers a multilevel, ungraded format with simultaneous administration and scoring
Ages: 5-0 to Adult
Time: Approximately 40 minutes
Administration: Individual
The Diagnostic Assessments of Reading – Second Edition (DAR-2) provides a comprehensive assessment of individual student achievement in print awareness, phonological awareness, letters and sounds, word recognition, word analysis, oral reading accuracy and fluency, silent reading comprehension, spelling, and word meaning.
Scoring and Administration
The teacher/test administrator simultaneously administers and scores DAR tests, marking students’ responses as correct, incorrect, or omitted. A mastery criterion has been set for each test, and the student continues with each test until a highest mastery level has been established.
The Trial Teaching Strategies (TTS) is an online resource that offers short lessons to address a student’s reading needs. TTS extends the comprehensive nature of the DAR by addressing the specific needs DAR identifies for a particular student. After administering DAR, the teacher can log on to the TTS website and use a student’s DAR results to access strategies appropriate to try with that student. As an alternate option, the teacher can access these strategies by selecting from an index of reading topics. The TTS website is easy to use. In just 3 steps, teachers can obtain instructional strategies to try with their students.
COMPLETE DAR-2 CLASSROOM–FORM A INCLUDES: Teacher’s Manual A, Student Book A, 30 Response Record Forms - A, and TTS for Five Users
