Ready4Reading Evidence Portfolio
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diagnose reading fluency and accuracy. Students utilize SoapBox Technology during the program’s Word Warm - Up activities, as well as when reading in the program’s digital versions of Short Reads Decodables and Read to Know Text Sets. During these activities, students read target words and sentences from decodable texts, listen to their recordings, and receive real-time feedback about how accurately they read and pronounced words. When they struggle, they receive assistance via model pronunciations. SoapBox then provides data to teachers identifying how well students are decoding targeted sound- spellings. As an additional form of formative assessment, every fifth Short Read Decodable Student Card and every fourth Read to Know Text Set reviews the targeted sound spellings that were practiced in the previous section. Texts can be used as assessments to measure children’s progress at regular intervals. A downloadable Oral Reading Rubric is available to structure the formative assessment and record results and takeaways. • Embedded Assessments: Ready4Reading includes a series of assessments woven into the program’s instructional sequence which aim to help teachers monitor student learning progress, determine student groupings, identify needs for intervention, and identify placement and exit criteria. For example:
o Wiley Blevins ’s lessons include 41 weekly quick checks designed to assess students’ knowledge of critical sound-spelling patterns.
o Read to Know Text Sets: Teaching materials for Read to Know Text Sets include activities that can be used to evaluate children’s readiness for a text and assess their success with the reading. ▪ Readiness Checks provide lists of words representing the phonics focus of the given text set. Teachers can listen to students read words aloud to help gauge readiness and identify possible needs for additional support. ▪ Respond and Write Resources are book-specific writing prompts and game-like activities that are aimed at providing assessable records of each child’s comprehension and phonics skills. ▪ Oral Reading Rubric. The program’s Oral Reading Rubric is provided to teachers with the aim of tracking each student’s phonics and comprehension progress as they read aloud a decodable text. Across these assessment materials, Ready4Reading generates reports for teachers that aim to provide detailed and actionable overviews of students’ progress toward mastering phonics and reading skills. Data reports include the following: • Ready4Reading Snapshot: On the landing page of the Scholastic Teacher Dashboard, teachers are provided a “ Snapshot ” that summarizes students’ weekly activity in the program. This report summarizes the number of digital Short Reads Decodables and Read
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