At the middle school in my district we are making the move to EasyCBM for our universal screener. It has progress monitoring. If a teacher would like to use EasyCBM for no more than 200 students she can use the Lite version for free. The entire district continues to use MAP for achievement testing. Ann Walker Reading Specialist Illinois
________________________________ From: Diana Rea <d...@dqud300.perry.k12.il.us> To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group' <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Lexile Measure My K-12 district has been looking into switching to NWEA Measure of Academic Progress for our universal screener. The only drawback we see is our current universal screener (K-8 AIMSweb, which provides Lexile) has progress monitor capabilities and MAP doesn't for RtI. What does your district use to progress monitor tier 2 and 3 students? -----Original Message----- From: Mosaic [mailto:mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Monique Temple Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:31 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Lexile Measure I have worked in several districts that all have used NWEA Measures of Academic Progress. If you are not familiar with this assessment you should look into it. We give it to our students 3 times a year and it provides lots of data to drive your instruction including lexile numbers. Sent from my iPad On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:19 AM, bummyb...@aol.com wrote: > Our district found the SRI not to be reliable for lexile scores. We used it for 2 years and we said do not waste our money or time. We are now doing what you suggested and using books that we are confident of the lexile level. > > Shannon Bumgarner > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Palmer, Jennifer <jennifer.pal...@hcps.org> > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> > Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 8:04 am > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Lexile Measure > > > The SRI costs money--but is the most reliable way to get a lexile.The > cheapest thing to do is to test books you know the lexile of on > children. Ask them to read a passage from several books of differing > lexiles... Do an informal comprehension check and you are good to go. > Less reliable but likely more valid to inform classroom instruction... > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:17 PM, "evelia cadet" <cadeteve...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Are there any free assessments out there that I could use to >> determine the > Lexile reading level of my students? Thank you. >> >> Evelia >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.o >> rg >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.or > g > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.or > g > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive