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Sample Parent Letter - MAP Reading Fluency Providing Results

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Sample Parent Letter - Introducing MAP Reading Fluency

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MAP Reading Fluency Testing: 9 Tips for Teachers and School Leaders

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MAP Reading Fluency Testing: 9 Tips for Teachers and School Leaders

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Teacher tips
With the winter testing season upon us, we'd like to offer some tips to help you make the most out of this assessment season. These tips are for teachers and school leaders for the upcoming winter MAP ® Reading Fluency ™ testing window.
School Leader tips

Set aside adequate time for assessing. Depending on your school resources, decide when and where to assess students. You might sign up for one to two sessions in the computer lab or dedicate time from your reading block to assess in your classroom. Don't forget to plan a testing session for absent students or those unable to test the first time around. Also, add "coordinate with colleagues" to your checklist if devices and headsets are shared across classrooms.

Test your equipment. MAP Reading Fluency utilizes a headset with a boom microphone to capture student audio. Review Setting Up for Testing for a refresher on preparing equipment and devices. Remember, MAP Reading Fluency is accessible via the Chrome™ browser, so ensuring the latest browser version is installed (and the latest MAP Reading Fluency app version is installed for iPad® devices) also helps alleviate any testing issues.

Prepare students for assessment. Set aside a 10-15 minute block of time a day or two before testing to remind students of the general purpose of assessments and the specific purpose of MAP Reading Fluency. Letting students know that assessments help us understand what we already know and what we are ready to learn next allows students to take ownership over their learning and reduces any anxiety an assessment may cause. Engage students in this conversation before testing to give them an opportunity to digest the information, express concerns, and ask questions.

Prepare to analyze assessment data. Discuss how to compile and analyze student assessment data during your grade team meeting, staff meeting, or other shared planning time one to two weeks prior to testing. That way, you and your colleagues can collaborate on best practices. Your school or a colleague may use data analysis templates that all teachers can benefit from. Engaging in professional conversation about student data helps surface grade-wide trends, allows teachers to share what they know, and creates a community of collaboration. For teachers in smaller districts or without grade-level colleagues, review this post on how to analyze reading data.

Share results with families. Finding time to meet and communicate with students' families can be challenging, given everyone's schedules. Sharing assessment results does not have to come in the form of a sit-down meeting. If you can't meet with families in person, think of ways to share assessment results via email or phone or send information home with the student. Creating and maintaining a communicative relationship with families helps ensure students are receiving similar support at home and school.

Set aside a testing window. Using district or school guidelines, communicate the testing window with staff ahead of time. Providing staff adequate time to prepare themselves, students, and equipment for testing ensures a smoother process. Any arrangements that need to be made with special education or other instructional staff can also happen in advance.

Communicate best practices. As with any assessment, following established best practices lead to more valid and reliable test events. Communicating these practices, along with any district or school assessment guidelines, ensures consistency and objective results. This also allows all staff to be on the same page across the school or district with assessment practices.

Make use of available data. MAP Reading Fluency has reports available specifically for school leaders and administrators to help analyze school-wide data and track progress. Review Reports for Administrators for a refresher on the Testing Progress report and an introduction to the new Term Summary report.

Engage teachers in school or district goals. Use a staff meeting to communicate or remind staff of the district or school goals for student reading achievement. Facilitating a conversation about goals-and progress toward those goals-helps build ownership. Additionally, visibility and honest discussion about student achievement can help educators more easily weave larger district and school goals into their daily instruction.

For more tips on using MAP Reading Fluency and the results, check out the MAP Reading Fluency section here on Teach. Learn. Grow.

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MAP Reading Fluency Testing: 9 Tips for Teachers and School Leaders

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With the winter testing season upon us, we'd like to offer some tips to help you make the most out of this assessment season. These tips are for teachers and school leaders for the upcoming winter MAP Reading Fluency testing window.

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MAP ® Reading Fluency™ is an adaptive universal screening and progress monitoring assessment for early reading skills. It can gather data on oral reading fluency, literal comprehension, and foundational reading skills for an entire class in about 20 minutes as well as screen for risk factors for dyslexia or other reading difficulties.

Video: Introduction to MAP Reading Fluency (3.5 minutes)

Watch this introductory video to hear from teachers how they use MAP Reading Fluency in their classrooms:

Purposes and introduction to test types

MAP Reading Fluency has three main purposes, and three main corresponding test types:

1. Gathering interim benchmark data about foundational or oral reading skills, including a Universal Screener outcome, using the Benchmark Test.

2. Monitoring oral reading progress throughout a term using Progress Monitoring

3. Screening students for possible risk factors for dyslexia or other reading difficulties using the Dyslexia Screener

Here are the basics about each type of MAP Reading Fluency test, with links to relevant resources in this guide and in the Help Center:

Recommended grade levels

Pre-K through 5

Grade 1 (spring only) and grades 2-5

Available for K-3 only

Test content

Oral reading fluency, literal comprehension, and/or foundational reading skills, depending on test subtype assigned; universal screening for possible reading difficulty*

Oral reading fluency and literal comprehension

Foundational reading skills and naming speed (RAN); identifies students with possible risk factors for dyslexia or other reading difficulties

Administration types

Onsite and remote

Frequency

Three times per year

Multiple times per term

Up to three times per year

Test time

About 20 minutes to assess an entire class simultaneously

10 minutes

About 20 minutes to assess an entire class simultaneously

Accessibility

Audio instruction, color contrast adjustment, and magnification

Technology required

Devices and headsets for each student

*Due to the differences between the Spanish and English languages, some of the tested skills will be different on the Spanish test, but both tests will accurately assess reading ability.

Getting started

If you're looking for a quick overview on setting up, see the Quick Start for MAP Reading Fluency.

Resources by role

For Teachers:

Students log in to testing at https://student.mapnwea.org.

For Proctors:

Students log in to testing at https://student.mapnwea.org.

For Administrators:

For Technical Coordinators:

Additional printed resources

Printed guide of help content

For a printed version of this information, download the Reading Fluency Guide.

Psychometric and test construction information: MAP Reading Fluency Technical Report

For psychometric and test construction information, please download the MAP Reading Fluency Technical Report.

Spanish assessment test design and specifications

For test design and specifications for the Spanish assessment, please download the Spanish MAP Reading Fluency Content Guide.

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MAP ® Reading Fluency™ is an adaptive universal screening and progress monitoring assessment for early reading skills. It can gather data on oral reading fluency, literal comprehension, and foundational reading skills for an entire class in about 20 minutes as well as screen for risk factors for dyslexia or other reading difficulties.

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Simple, but not easy: What we forget about how reading comprehension develops

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Simple, but not easy: What we forget about how reading comprehension develops

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As young kids amaze us all by developing reading fluency (remember this blog?), they typically move toward greater and greater comprehension of what they read. That's good: reading with comprehension is, after all, the point of learning to read fluently.

But not all kids have enough of what they need to get to reading comprehension. Some kids have strong phonics and word recognition skills, but still fail to comprehend. Others show solid, insightful comprehension when you read TO them, but fall down in comprehending what they read on their own.

What gives? This sounds complicated.

Actually, it's helpful to focus on how simple it is. An important model for reading comprehension is one asserted by Gough & Tunmer (1986). Their model, the Simple View of Reading, is described by a simple formula:

This is "simple" because it only has two moving parts, the D and the LC. Just as a simple lever only has two parts, handle and fulcrum, the development of reading comprehension can be modeled as being, at its core, simple.

Decoding (D) is the ability to turn printed words into the right word sounds, more and more automatically. Phonics instruction aims toward increasing decoding proficiency.

Language Comprehension (LC) is the ability to understand spoken words in sentences. When we speak with easier words and less complex structures to very small kids, we are reaching toward their less proficient language comprehension.

In this model, D and LC are multiplied together, not added. That's important because it means this: when one is weak, you can't just compensate with a heavier dose of the other.

You can think of each of the factors as working like a percentage, ranging from 0 (no proficiency at all) to 1 (100%, perfect proficiency). Imagine that Decoding is at full power, and Language Comprehension is only at half power. That's 1 times 0.5, which gives us a pretty poor value for Reading Comprehension. Even a student who can read every single word accurately can have poor comprehension. The product, Reading Comprehension, will be at or below the level of the lower factor.

That's important: whichever of the two proficiencies is weakest, that is the one that most limits Reading Comprehension. How are we doing at finding and targeting the weak factor, student by student?

In the U.S., we have often done a poor job of adequately supporting both D and LC. In too many schools, we have tested and watched for progress in Decoding skills alone. We have often gone so far as to assume that every student with low Reading Comprehension must need help developing their Decoding. But as Valencia and Buly (2004) have so clearly shown, struggling readers' needs vary. Some "automatic word callers," kids who are able to read with accuracy and even solid rate, still lack the language comprehension needed to get good at reading comprehension. ( In future blogs, we'll unpack "language comprehension" a bit, to point toward the kinds of skills that can be assessed and explicitly supported in instruction.)

So: what a relief to know that Reading Comprehension is simple, am I right? The key here is to remember that simple does not mean easy. Just having a simple lever doesn't mean you can lift an elephant later this afternoon, easy peasy.
MAP® Reading Fluency™ can now help you assess your early readers-in as little as 20 minutes. Learn more.
But with well-considered preparation - think instructional savvy and individualization-we can apply our exertion to better points of leverage. While simple is not easy, keeping the Simple View of Reading in mind might help us optimize for that all-important product, Reading Comprehension.

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Simple, but not easy: What we forget about how reading comprehension develops

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While simple is not easy, keeping the Simple View of Reading in mind might help us optimize for that all-important product, Reading Comprehension. #edchat #earlylearning #education

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The MAP Reading Fluency Student Experience Video

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The MAP Reading Fluency Student Experience Video

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To ensure equity among all students, you can use the MAP ® Spanish tests for students who either speak Spanish as their first language or receive instruction in Spanish.

On this page:

For a list of tests available, see Test Descriptions Summary.

Determining Student Needs

Deciding if Spanish tests are appropriate will depend on each student's unique circumstances. Here are some general considerations:

If your program goal is English proficiency:

Students with low instructional time in English are good candidates for Spanish tests. After one or two testing terms, consider switching to the English test if the student has shown positive growth.

Students with more instructional time in English might benefit from the Spanish test, although they could probably transition to English soon.

If your program goal is biliteracy or dual-language immersion:

For reading, consider testing students in both Spanish and English to understand their different reading abilities.

For math, choose either Spanish or English, depending on student abilities. Unlike reading, a student can have only one math score counted toward growth each term.

Spanish math is available for grades K-12 and Spanish reading is available for grades K-8.

Videos for MAP Growth Spanish

Introduction

Summarizes the purpose, options, and suggested use for MAP ® Growth™ Spanish tests

Spanish and English Language Development and Instruction

Compares how students develop language skills in English versus Spanish and the potential impacts on instruction

How to Use Spanish MAP Growth Reports and Data

Explains actionable insights you can gain about the learning needs of Spanish-speaking students

Quick Tips for MAP Growth Spanish

Test Administration:

When assigning a test to students, look for the word "Spanish" in the test name (such as "Growth: Spanish Reading 2-5").

To help students with sign-in, tell them to turn on the "mostrar instrucciones en español" option.

Spanish Reading Results:

RIT scores are:

based on a separate scale from English Reading, and appear separate from English results.

comparable to English (for example, a 210 in Spanish matches the difficulty of 210 in English).

Some data is not available, including projected proficiency and Lexile® measure. For an example report, see MAP Growth Spanish Reading Results .

Spanish Math Results:

RIT scores are based on the same scale as English Math, and appear in the same area as English results.

Note: If a student took both Spanish and English in the same term (not recommended), then one score would appear, whichever has the lowest standard error.

Norms are based on the same national norms as English Math.

MAP Reading Fluency Spanish

Videos

Introduction

Summarizes the purpose, options, and suggested use for MAP ® Reading Fluency™ Spanish tests

Spanish and English Language Development and Instruction

Compares how students develop language skills in English versus Spanish and the potential impacts on instruction

How to Use Spanish MAP Reading Fluency Reports and Data

Explains actionable insights you can gain about the learning needs of grade K-3 Spanish-speaking students

Spanish MAP Reading Fluency Content Guide

For test design and specifications for the Spanish assessment, please download the Spanish MAP Reading Fluency Content Guide.

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About the Spanish tests for math and reading, including videos describing how best to use the test results

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Virtual MAP Reading Fluency Basics Handout

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Virtual MAP Reading Fluency Basics Handout

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NOTE: These workshop resources are retired as of 7/24/2023 and this course will be archived in September 2023. Please contact NWEA Support if you need help finding something.

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Striking the balance of instruction and assessment

Get precise, reliable insights to support early readers while maximizing valuable instructional time. With speech-recognition technology, group administration, and automatic scoring, MAP Reading Fluency-part of the Early Literacy Solution from NWEA- provides a clear view of early literacy skills and learning needs for an entire class in about 20 minutes.

Go beyond fluency for a more complete picture of early literacy

Aligned to the science of reading, MAP Reading Fluency measures and monitors oral reading fluency, literal comprehension, and foundational reading skills from season to season and year to year. Quickly screen students at risk of reading difficulty, including characteristics of dyslexia. Benchmark assessments are available in both English and Spanish.

See MAP Reading Fluency in action

MAP Reading Fluency is an adaptive universal screening and progress monitoring assessment for grades pre-K to 5-and it's available for remote and on-site administration. This powerful tool efficiently assesses in English and Spanish.

Insights you can implement today

MAP Reading Fluency provides educators with comprehensive reports and actionable data to improve instructional decisions.

Student audio recordings available for teacher playback

Easy-to-use reports to support differentiation and planning

A direct link to instructional resources for foundational skills

Identify challenges earlier with the new dyslexia screener

Get precise, reliable insights to support early readers while maximizing valuable instructional time. With speech-recognition technology, group administration, and automatic scoring, MAP Reading Fluency provides a clear view of early literacy skills and learning needs for an entire class in about 20 minutes.

MAP Reading Fluency: The center of the Early Literacy Solution

The Early Literacy Solution pairs high-quality assessment from MAP Reading Fluency with guided implementation and professional learning experiences that engage and galvanize your team while honing assessment literacy and instructional planning. Wrap-around support and expert-led guidance round out this solution, providing your teachers and coaches with the resources and tools they need to help young readers succeed.

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MAP® Reading Fluency™ is an online, adaptive assessment that efficiently measures oral reading fluency, comprehension, and foundational skills.

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