Screening

Screening is an assessment procedure that is:

• Brief
• Efficient
• Repeatable

Focused on age-appropriate academic skills (e.g., identifying letters, reading high-frequency wordsor behaviors)

To identify students who are “at-risk” for academic failure or social-emotional concerns.
To determine which students may need:

• Closer monitoring
• Further assessment
• Supplemental instruction

Progress monitoring is the practice of assessing student performance using assessments on a repeated basis to determine how well a student is responding to instruction. Data obtained from progress monitoring can:

• Determine a student’s rate of progress
• Provide information on the effectiveness of instruction and whether to modify the intervention, and
• Identify the need for further or additional information.

Progress monitoring data is also used to determine a student’s movement through the tiers. The intensity of instruction/intervention will determine the frequency of progress monitoring.

​​​​​​Limitations of Screening & Progress Monitoring Tools:

• Sometimes diagnostics provide enough information to guide instruction.
• More often, offer only quick snapshots of student performance.
• Diagnostics do not usually provide in-depth insight into student abilities.

Purpose of Diagnostic Assessments:

• Offer detailed information about individual student skills.
• Help educators determine:
  • What to teach
  • How to teach

Diagnostics are typically used for:

• Students significantly behind established benchmarks.
• Students not making adequate progress despite intervention.

PA (Phonological and Phonemic Awareness): *Assessment: PAST Assessment Kilpatrick

• Kilpatrick One Minute Blue 
• Heggerty- Primary Curriculum (PreK-2)
• Heggerty- Extension (3rd- 5th Grade)

Decoding: *Assessments: QPS, WADE (Both Reading and Spelling Forms)

• Wilson Reading
• Road to Reading

Encoding:  *Assessments-WADE (Spelling and Writing Sample)

• Wilson: Just Words 
• Word Connections
• Words Their Way
• Morpheme Magic *will be using for the following school year

Fluency: Assessments: ORF/CBM, writing sample and possibly WADE Spelling

• Wilson Fluency Practice/Just Words Extension 
• Fluency Strategies with Passages 
• Greek/Latin/Affix Work 

Vocabulary/Comprehension: Assessments: ORF, STAR, Writing Sample, QRI…  

• Text Sets with overlapping Themes: (see Brookins presentation from TRL 2023 conference)
• Book Clubs with Partner/Group Protocols with Critical Thinking and Inquiry Talk: Think Socratic Seminars 
• Comprehension Toolkit 
• Greek/Latin/Affix Work

Implementing an intervention generally follows the Problem Solving Cycle:

• Identify
• Analyze
• Implement
• Reflect

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