Comprehension strategies and constructing meaning - self-monitoring, making predictions, drawing conclusions, and using the organizational structure of the text to improve understanding Analyzing literary text - explore the plot, setting, character, theme, point of view, characteristics of diferent genres Understanding author’s craft - understanding and analysis of an author’s use of language and literary devices to create certain efects.
Comprehension
Literacy
Author
Analyzing Argument and Evaluating Text - recognizing, analyzing, and evaluating arguments in persuasive, editorial, and academic writing
Argument
Progress Monitoring & Assessment: FAST Reading The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring tool for students in Pre-Kindergarten through grade 10 for the reading assessment and through grade 8 for mathematics assessment. Refer to Table 8c for the skills tested on the FAST reading assessment.
Table 8c. FAST Reading Indicators of Early Literacy Skills
Subtest
Indicators of Early Literacy Skills
Reading Prose & Poetry, Reading Informational Text, Reading Across Genres & Vocabulary
FAST ELA Reading
Progress Monitoring & Assessment: FastBridge FastBridge is described as an all-in-one screening, progress monitoring, and reporting tool. Noting that their screening process takes anywhere from fve to thirty minutes for educators to complete with students, FastBridge provides subject mastery data and intervention guidance to educators covering reading, math, and social-emotional behavior. This program provides tier one program evaluation through universal screening, allowing teachers to adeptly identify efective and alter inefective instructional practices. Description of Log Data An additional task asked of the 14 participating RISE/Up teachers was to complete weekly logs from February 6th, 2023 through May 12, 2023. These logs tracked student attendance; lesson number; and specifc details about daily small group lessons, such as station number, resources used, station card, book title, target skill and any other relevant notes the teachers provided. Teachers received a weekly incentive of a $10 Amazon gift card for each log submission, and double the amount
LXD Research -RISE and RISE UP Winter 2022-Spring 2023 Report
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