Digital Assessments The Letters2Meaning (L2M) adaptive assessment and SoapBox Speech Recognition technology provide teachers with actionable data and reporting. Together, these tools simplify teacher lesson planning and inform instruction.
Placement and Progress With Letters2Meaning Assessment is where the “Prove” part of the Ready4Reading framework occurs. Teachers may use Letters2Meaning—a normed, adaptive digital assessment that takes on average of 10 minutes to complete—to place students in the Ready4Reading system. Assessment This assessment is given five times a year (every 6–8 weeks) and provides a metric for grouping students and a way for teachers to monitor growth and progress across the year. L2M specifically measures a student’s: 1. letter knowledge 4. basic comprehension, using different types of questions This valid and reliable assessment then reports a Grade Equivalent (G.E.) Score that aligns with the Ready4Reading scope and sequence, connecting instruction across modules Grade Equivalent Score The score produced by Letters2Meaning provides an easy-to-interpret value that represents how well a student is reading compared to a representative sample of students across the United States (norms for Letters2Meaning were calculated using data from the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement and the NWEA MAP assessment). Specifically, the G.E. Score can be roughly interpreted as representing a student’s reading ability as a given grade and month combination; the integer provides the grade level, and the decimal provides the month. For example, a student with a G.E. Score of 2.3 is reading at a level of a second grader during the third month of school. 2. decoding 3. encoding Reading Ability The reading ability of a student at the time of each assessment is determined based on how he or she responds to the individual items on the assessment. Because the assessment is adaptive, each student will follow a unique progression through the items. The resulting G.E. Score is determined solely based on the student's responses and our
computer adaptive scoring algorithms, not a specific standard or the mastery of individual skills. Instead, think of the G.E. Score as a more holistic measure of a student’s overall decoding/comprehension ability. Within Ready4Reading The G.E. Score from L2M is used within Ready4Reading for student grouping, tracking progress, and providing teachers a placement starting point for each student’s instruction. Using a "range" shown on the Planning and Pacing Guide, teachers identify which lessons most likely include appropriate content.
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