Monitoring Progress

Students receiving intensive interventions outside of general classroom instruction will be monitored weekly using one or more of the following:

• Oral Reading Fluency 

• Letter Sound Word Fluency 

• Letter Naming Fluency

• Nonsense Word Fluency  Phoneme Segmentation

Why do we need to monitor students' progress?

Monitoring how well each student is learning helps teachers see if their lessons are working and figure out what students need to do better. Research shows that using this kind of progress tracking can help students learn more, especially those who need extra help or have disabilities. To do this successfully, teachers need to:

• Check how students are doing often.

• Use charts or graphs to look at the data clearly.

• Set clear rules for when to keep a lesson the same or change it.

• Follow those rules carefully.

• Give specific ideas for what to do differently if needed.

The aimswebPlus system makes it easier to do these steps by:

• Letting teachers collect accurate data regularly.

• Automatically showing the results and progress with graphs.

• Predicting how students are likely to improve compared to their goals.

• Helping teachers decide if a student is on track to meet their goals.

However, this system doesn’t suggest new teaching ideas if a lesson isn’t working. While progress tracking shows whether teaching is working, it doesn’t give other options for what to try next.