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Reading Progress for Assessment

Reading Progress is a tool built into Microsoft Teams that helps improve their reading fluency.

This Video will guide you in assigning a Reading Progress activity to your class.

Using Microsoft Teams learners will be able to access their Reading Progress activity.

Teachers can choose the text they want learners to be assessed on.

An assignment will provide you with data on your learner's reading ability. This can be recorded and tracked through their time in the school.

How to assign a Reading Progress task

Open your Class in Teams
Select Assignments
Select Create
Learning Accelerators then Reading Progress

Choose a passage of text which your school has idenitfied, or is relevant to the topic being covered in school.

Create a passage using Microsoft's AI Generator, select the topic, the age it is aimed at, the length of th passage and the language of choice.

Make us of the Sample Library, choose the 'Grade level' and the passge to share with learners.

Once you have selected the text for your learners

As a teacher, you can make edits to the task which is set.

Select the number of attempts which can be made.

Set a time limit.

Reading Coach

Comprehension

Select to either Generate the questions or add your own

Data and Feedback you will get from Reading Progress

The Feedback you will get from your learners:

Correct words per min
Accuracy Rate
Mispronunciations
Omissions
Self-corrections
Insertions
Repetitions

Considerations and Opportunities with Reading Progress

As a school/cluster, you could use selected texts as benchmarks for assessment points throughout the year.

Identify texts for learners at different reading levels and differentiate the assignments your learners get.

Ensure learners are familiar with the support processes once they have submitted their assignments.

Use text in which your learners are familiar with the subject. e.g. learners will read words like erosion and deposition if they have previously experienced them when learning about them in class.

Support your learners in understanding how to practice their reading before they submit their responses.

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