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Boosting Middle School Literacy: How Readable English is Making a Difference in the Classroom

 

A recent peer-reviewed study shows Readable English significantly boosts reading fluency and comprehension for struggling middle school students.

 

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Boosting Middle School Literacy: How Readable English is Making a Difference in the Classroom

 

A recent peer-reviewed study shows Readable English significantly boosts reading fluency and comprehension for struggling middle school students.

 

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Literacy Benchmarking & Progress Monitoring

Bring Meaning to Measurement

Through a partnership with MetaMetrics Inc., the developer of the Lexile framework, Readable English offers benchmarking and progress monitoring. 

Teachers can now get a realistic view of how their students are performing and use this ongoing data to help their students get to grade level reading.

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Oral Reading Fluency

Progress monitoring for oral reading fluency is essential to making sure that all students become fluent readers. By measuring words read correctly per minute, reading accuracy and passage difficulty, the Lexile oral reading measures provide a more precise measurement of students' abilities. Teachers can make well-informed and timely decisions about the instructional needs of their students.

Beginning of Year (BOY) and End of Year (EOY) benchmark assessments, as well as ongoing progress monitoring assessments are available for students in grades 2-12.

Measures WCPM, Accuracy, and Passage Difficulty

 

The Lexile® oral reading measures developed by MetaMetrics® provides a new metric for gauging growth in oral reading fluency. The measurement uses the three components of oral reading (WCPM, accuracy, passage difficulty) to produce students’ Lexile oral reading measures. Because it is reported on the Lexile scale, a developmental scale, it allows educators to monitor student growth over time.

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Using Student Lexile Oral Reading Measures

Readable English students get Lexile oral reading measures by reading a text aloud as a recorded electronic audio file. Audio files are analyzed using state-of-the-art speech recognition and artificial intelligence technologies and students receive a Lexile oral reading measure. Lexile oral measures range from below 0L to above 1200L. For Lexile measures below 0L, the leading negative sign is replaced with a “BR” to signfy that the measure represents a “beginner reader.”

The Lexile oral reading measure for students takes into account Words Correct per Minute (WCPM) and accuracy scores, but also considers how difficult the passage is to read aloud. Unlike percent correct scores, Lexile oral reading measures are on a scale which allows growth to be measured within and across grades.

How does oral reading relate to reading comprehension?

 

Watch this video to learn how oral reading is a prerequisite to comprehension. If a student is able to read fluently, they can focus their cognitive resources toward comprehension.

 

Reading Comprehension

Benchmarking reading comprehension ability at the BOY and EOY helps students become aware that literacy isn't just about reading words correctly, but is ultimately to get meaning. Readable English lessens the cognitive load on students’ struggle with decoding, enabling them to think and comprehend what they are reading in ways they were unable to previously.

Beginning of Year (BOY) and End of Year (EOY) benchmark assessments for reading comprehension are available for students in grades 2-12. 

Progress Monitoring: The Link Between ORF and Reading Comprehension

While BOY and EOY benchmark assessments are offered for reading comprehension, progress throughout the year is monitored using ORF assessments only. ORF is a strong predictor of silent reading ability and has consistently been found to have a high correlation with reading comprehension. 

While students are still learning to read (learning to decode letters on a page into meaningful words), all of their attention and cognitive resources are used in the decoding process. Once students are reading with automaticity and fluency, their cognitive resources are freed up to focus on comprehension.

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Lexile Measures for Reading Comprehension

 

Readable English students get a BOY Lexile® reading measure by taking a reading comprehension test that is linked to the Lexile scale. Lexile reading measures range from below 0L to above 1600L. For any Lexile measures below 0L, the negative sign is replaced with a “BR” code suggesting that these texts are designed for “beginner readers.” Educators can use this Lexile reading measure along with Lexile text measures to connect students with reading materials within their Lexile range

Because there are so many materials with Lexile text measures, it’s easy to find reading materials across the curriculum that will provide an ideal level of challenge while maintaining comprehension. Below is some helpful information on connecting students with books at the right level of challenge.

The Lexile Framework for Reading
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Measures that Span the Literacy Construct

Using the Lexile® Framework by MetaMetrics®, we provide students with Lexile® measures for reading comprehension and oral reading fluency to offer a more complete picture of their literacy skills. With Lexile measures, we efficiently match readers with text at the appropriate reading level and track progress toward the goals to get to grade-level reading and beyond!

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