The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) 3-8 Assessments are designed to help educators track students’ ability to read increasingly difficult texts with fluency, accuracy, and comprehension. The goal of these assessments is to facilitate teachers’ ability to channel students toward texts at a productive instructional reading level, and to guide instructional decision-making throughout the year. The TCRWP 3-8 Assessments for the 2008-09 school year have been revised in important ways, including the addition of an instrument for assessing progress in non-fiction reading, a spelling inventory that tracks spelling and phonics development, and new software allowing schools to integrate data from these reading assessments with data from ARIS, in order to facilitate the analysis of important patterns and trends. MaterialsInformation about the TCRWP 3-8 Assessment materials is available on the TCRWP Web site.
TCRWP Funding AllocationsSchools that chose to administer the TCRWP assessments received their DYO allocations the week of October 13. For more information on your school's allocation, please see the TCRWP School Allocation Memo.