Progress Monitoring

Progress Monitoring allows educators to measure student performance throughout the year. This information is used to make decisions about the student's educational plan, the effectiveness of a specific intervention approach, and the need to make adaptions or changes in instruction or interventions in order to ensure student growth. Progress Monitoring (PM) begins with data to determine a baseline, where the student's reading is at the start of an intervention or instructional approach. Then, the teacher administers the assessment probe, a short mini assessment, which is entered into the data system. The PM probes for intervention study are administered weekly or biweekly.

Progress Monitoring data may also be reviewed to make decisions about classroom instruction and instructional resources. In this case, PM probes may be administered every 4-6 weeks.

FastBridge Assessments

• FastBridge earlyReading offers a selection of assessment probes to be used weekly or biweekly to ensure that an intervention approach is ensuring student growth in the targeted areas.

• CBM-R Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Curriculum-Based Measure for Reading (CBM-R) can be used weekly or biweekly to ensure that an intervention approach is ensuring student growth in the targeted areas.

Sonday Mastery Checks

• Sonday Essentials is a multisensory, phonics program designed to support the development of foundational skills in the classroom. Mastery Checks are given periodically to ensure that students are learning the systematic phonemes or if reteaching or other support is needed.

• Sonday 1 and 2 are multisensory, phonics-based intervention resources. Sonday 1 offers structured, systematic, multisensory reading intervention for readers at the beginning stages of reading through the end of the 2nd-grade reading level. Each lesson plan uses proven Orton-Gillingham methods to provide effective intervention in small-group settings. Sonday 2 is designed for intermediate readers in grades 3-8. Mastery Checks are given periodically to ensure that the intervention is supporting the needs of the student or needs adaption or an alternative intervention.

Being a Reader

• Placement and Mastery Checks are designed to quickly and efficiently assess the foundational skill areas students know, what they need to know, and to place them accurately in small groups supported by the Being a Reader instructional resources. Teachers can use these data to discuss instructional effectiveness at their grade level and to identify students in need of additional instructional support.

Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling Assessments LETRS

LETRS Phonological Awareness Skills Test (PAST)

• PAST is an informal, diagnostic, individually administered assessment tool to help teachers determine the point of instruction for students and to monitor progress.

LETRS Phonics and Word Reading Survey

• This survey is an individually administered tool for identifying which correspondences and patterns the student has learned, and which ones the student needs to be taught. This survey is used for the last half of Kindergarten and onward.

HillRAP

The Hill Learning System (HLS) - is a digital app that leverages technology to deliver teacher-led, individualized, small group instruction to the most struggling readers, including those with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning differences. HillRAP progress monitors as students participate in the intervention and provide real-time data, goal-setting, and progress monitoring at the teacher and students' fingertips; embedded assessment and pre-loaded questions and word lists to make individualization easy while allowing for teacher judgment and flexibility; hundreds of aligned, controlled, decodable texts with corresponding comprehension questions, and online resources and videos to support instruction.