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Assessment windows for OLA assessments will open three days prior to the recommended administration date and will remain open for six weeks.

Assessment windows for AKO assessments (only available in K-2) will open four weeks prior to the recommended administration date and will remain open for six weeks.

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2025-2026 K-5 ELA Assessment Curriculum Decision Trees

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2025-2026 K-5 ESOL Student Decision Tree

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Schoology Elementary ESOL Folder

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These presentations are property of M-DCPS Parent Academy and provided as a convenience to you and are intended for educational purposes only. A video placed on this site does not imply endorsement of any particular product, philosophy, professional group, university or agency, nor is it necessary for you to rely on information only from those presentations listed here. The views and opinions expressed in the videos are those of the creator/presenter and do not necessarily reflect those of Miami-Dade County Public Schools or the Parent Academy.

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These presentations are property of M-DCPS Parent Academy and provided as a convenience to you and are intended for educational purposes only. A video placed on this site does not imply endorsement of any particular product, philosophy, professional group, university or agency, nor is it necessary for you to rely on information only from those presentations listed here.

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Learn more about Florida's Assessment of Student Thinking, the new progress monitoring assessment beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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FAST assessments will be administered three times per year. The first (PM1) will occur within the first 30 days of school, the second (PM2) will occur in the middle of the school year, and the third (PM3) will occur at the end of the school year.

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Reading Begins at Home

Strong parental involvement is a key component of the Just Read, Florida! initiative. Other than helping your children to grow up happy and healthy, the most important thing that you can do for them is help them develop their reading skills.

Babies

Read to your baby for short periods several times a day. As you read, point out things in the pictures. Name them as you point to them. Cardboard or cloth books with large simple pictures of things with which babies are familiar are the best books to begin with.

Ages 1-4

Talk with your child as you read together. Point to pictures and name what is in them. When your child is ready, ask him or her to do the same. Ask your child about his or her favorite parts of the story, and answer your child's questions about events or characters.

Wherever you are with your child, point out individual letters in signs, billboards, posters and books. When your child is 3 to 4 years old, ask him or her to begin finding and naming some letters.

Kindergarten

Read predictable books to your child. Teach him or her to hear and say repeating words, such as names for colors, numbers, letters and animals. Predictable books help children to understand how stories progress. A child easily learns familiar phrases and repeats them, pretending to read.

Practice the sounds of language by reading books with rhymes and playing simple word games (i.e., How many words can you make up that sound like the word "bat"?).

First Grade

Point out the letter-sound relationships your child is learning on labels, boxes, newspapers and magazines.

Listen to your child read words and books from school. Be patient and listen as your child practices. Let him or her know you are proud of their reading.

Second & Third Grade

Build reading accuracy by having your child read aloud and point out words he or she missed and help him or her read words correctly. If you stop to focus on a word, have your child reread the whole sentence to be sure he or she understands the meaning.

*Taken from the U.S. Department of Education "Helping Your Child Become A Reader" and The Partnership for Reading "Put Reading First" publications.

Other Great Sources for Parents:

Summer Reading Activities Kit (PDF)
Great tips for reading this summer!

325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1432
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
Phone: 850-245-0503
Fax: 850-245-5105

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Parent Resources Read to Learn (PDF) Promote Literacy Skills No Child Left Behind: A Parents Guide The gift of literacy is one of the greatest.

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The New Worlds Reading Initiative is a free Florida literacy program for VPK-5 public or charter school students currently reading below grade level. Thanks to the support and investment of the Florida Legislature, this statewide book delivery program is a collaborative effort with the Florida Department of Education, school districts and other local and state organizations, and the University of Florida Lastinger Center. Don't miss the chance to discover more about the New Worlds Reading Initiative. Enrollment flyers are available in English (PDF), Spanish (PDF) and Haitian Creole (PDF).

Enroll here for the New Worlds Reading Initiative.

New Worlds Reading Initiative Tax Contribution Overview (PDF)

Pursuant to s. 1003.485(3)(c), F.S., beginning September 30, 2022, and annually thereafter, the Department of Education must report on its website the number of students participating in the initiative in each school district, information from the annual financial report under subparagraph (b)6., and the academic achievement and learning gains, as applicable, of participating students.

Year 2 New Worlds Reading Initiative Annual Enrollment Report 2022-2023 (PDF)

Year 2 New Worlds Reading Initiative District Enrollment (PDF)

Year 2 New Worlds Reading Initiative Project Disbursement Report (PDF)

Year 2 New Worlds Reading Initiative Tax Credit (PDF)

Year 2 New Worlds Reading Initiative Booklist (PDF)

Year 1 New Worlds Reading Initiative Annual Report 2021-2022 (PDF)

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Reading Endorsement The Just Read Florida! office spearheaded the effort to review and revise the Reading Endorsement Competencies in 2022 for alignment with.

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2025-2026 Elementary ELA Reading Intervention Essentials (1)

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Intensive Acceleration (IA) Course Reference Document

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Intensive Acceleration (IA) Course Reference Document

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2025-2026 Intensive Acceleration (IA) Course Reference Document

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Please feel free to reach out for questions - Support for MDCPS (801) 335-7066 or email: miami-dade-support@readinghorizons.com

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M-DCPS Reading Horizons Getting Started Modules

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Access Points in the Gen Ed Classroom (1)

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ELA Elementary Literacy Learning Labs Flyer 2025-2026

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2025-2026 K-5 ESOL Student Decision Tree