Week 6: COCA

This assessment type that is described in the article I think is a great way to evaluate a readers comprehension levels. The COCA method allows teachers to work closely with students to get a better understanding for what kind of reader that particular student is. This method offers two different books to chose from, one on Dragonflies and the other on Salmon. I like that you may choose which one you may want to use for your different students. Also I think it is a good idea that the book has some fill in the blank areas, so the students are not simply just recognizing words and trying to read text but they need to show they are comprehending the text by being bale to take a word from their own brain and putting it in the text themselves. Also the idea that teachers should be prompting the student reader and asking him or her questions through out the evaluation to assess their comprehension levels is a great method. I have never seen an assessment where the words were not provided on the pages for the students to use as a visual aid so I would deffinitely be interested in either putting this method to use myself or observing another teacher using this method to see how well it works with different types of learners.