Ready4Reading includes multiple opportunities for assessing student progress, including the Letters2Meaning (L2M) Digital Assessments, Word Warm-Up and Read & Record Activities.
Letters2Meaning Digital Assessments
Letters2Meaning is a normed, adaptive digital assessment that can be used to place students in the Ready4Reading system. It takes on average 10 minutes for a student to complete.
This assessment–given five times a year, every 6–8 weeks–provides a metric for grouping students and a way for teachers to monitor growth and progress across the school year.
Letters2Meaning measures a student’s letter knowledge, decoding, encoding, and 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, allowing teachers to connect instruction across all of the modules to the skills students need support on.
Students access Letters2Meaning via the Student Hub home screen.
Word Warm-Up and Read & Record Activities
In the Short Reads Decodables module and the Read to Know Text Sets module, students will be directed to go to the Student Hub to access Word Warm-Up and Read & Record activities.
Before reading a Short Reads Decodables Student Card or a Read to Know Text Sets book, students will complete a Word Warm-Up activity. In this activity, students read aloud five words to practice the targeted sound-spellings from the lesson. Voice Recognition Technology gives feedback to the student and provides data for the teacher.
After reading a Short Reads Decodables Student Card or a Read to Know Text Sets book, students will have the option of completing a Read & Record activity. Students read short excerpts from the text they just completed. Teachers will receive feedback about the student’s fluency and mastery of the targeted sound-spellings in each lesson.