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Accelerating Student Learning: Monitoring Reading

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Progress Monitoring: The Teacher's Map

Explanation of slide: This is exactly the role of progress monitoring toward important reading outcomes.

Progress monitoring provides a GPS system for educators.

In this figure, the first 3 X’s represent the child’s initial level of skills with respect to the accountability goal for the grade.

Across the bottom is month of the school year.

The bull’s eye represents the accountability outcome for the child’s grade in school. If the child achieves that level of skill (or higher) then the child is on grade level and on track to meet standards for state accountability assessments in later grades.

The green line represents the course the child will need to follow to achieve the desired outcome.

The purple line represents a change or modification in the intervention plan. Sometimes the change may be a different intervention; sometimes the change may be additional time or practice opportunities within the same intervention. Sometimes you need a major course correction, sometimes a minor course correction will do.

But, the child must stay on course to achieve the outcome.

[Slide contains a chart with the months of the year along the bottom and numbers up to 60 counting by 10s along the left hand side. There are red Xs on the chart moving in roughly a diagonal line upwards from January through March. There is a green line the red Xs are sort of following going upwards from left to right. At the end of the line, in June, there is a bullseye with the word "Aimline." In February, there is a purple line going directly upwards with the words, "A Change in intervention."]