Early Literacy Assessment Tool: What to Expect for New Leaders

1. Early Literacy Assessment Tool: What to Expect for New Leaders July 2019

2. Introduction First Last Name tbd@amplify.com Amplify Educational Consultant Previous Experience: TBD TBD

3. Norms • Participate actively • Take care of yourself • Stay Engaged • What is learned here, leaves here

4. Checklist : Do I have... • Participant NB : What to Expect for New Leaders • PDF of the Powerpoint • URL for mCLASS Log-in: www.mclass.amplify.com • Demo account information: • Username: dnext1 • Password:1234

5. Capture important messaging to share with teachers and parents Agenda • ELAT • What is Acadience Reading • Acadience Reading Composite Score • Foundational Literacy Skills and Acadience Sub Measures • Administrator Reporting • Teacher Reporting • Successful Assessment Planning • mCLASS Tools and Resources

6. Early Literacy Assessment Tool Project - ELAT

7. Early Literacy Assessment Tool - ELAT The intent of the program was to support state purchase of software that would provide individualized assessments with immediate results, store and analyze those results, and recommend activities based on those results. You have selected Amplify Reading who supplies the license for all K-3 students for Acadience Reading: • The Dynamic Measurement Group (authors of DIBELS Next) have announced that the name of DIBELS Next has changed to AcadienceTM Reading. • It’s important to note that the content of the assessment will remain the same. • Additionally, the current materials, training, and software provided by Amplify will all remain current and usable; this is simply a change in the assessment name.

8. ELAT Supports: • The assessment component of the READ Act by providing a universal screener • Ability to progress monitor students on essential early literacy skills • Identification of individual student gaps and supplies activities to support closing those gaps • Analysis student level, teacher level and aggregate level reporting to support teacher and system level next steps • Parent friendly communication and resources based on student assessment results • The proactive lens of intervening early to support all students in becoming proficient readers by 3rd grade

9. Importance of early reading proficiency Trajectories

10. Grade 3 reading and graduation correlation Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation

11. Learning Trajectory Words Per Minute Grade Source: Good, R. H., Simmons, D. C., & Smith, S. B. (1998). Effective academic interventions in the United States: Evaluating and enhancing the acquisition of early reading skills. School Psychology Review, 27, 740-753. [Joint publication with Educational and Child Psychology.]

12. Learning to read with the basic early literacy skills • National Reading Panel Report in early 2000 identified the components of reading • Higher achievement in future years • Universal Screeners like Acadience assess for critical early literacy skills

13. Page 1 Write / Think Time: Share out one key point Spend 5 minutes capturing messaging to share with parents and staff:

14. What is Acadience Reading ?* *The new name for DIBELS Next. The mCLASS platform will continue to reflect the name DIBELS Next.

15. Acadience Reading Formative Assessment Universal Screener Reliable Easy Repeatable Sensitive to Growth and Change

16. What does the assessment look like?

17. Assessment Options Benchmark • All students • Multiple measures • Three times a year • Identifies need for instructional support and Progress Monitoring Progress Monitoring • Primarily below and well below Benchmark students • Assessed every 7-10 (below) or 10-12 (well below) instructional days • Evaluates instructional effectiveness

18. Benchmark Composite Score Ranges Acadience Reading data is only valuable if we use the information to change outcomes.

19. What does the Composite tell us? • Likelihood of success on future benchmark assessments. 2. Type of support needed for the student. 3. Which students should likely receive progress monitoring.

20. What does the Composite NOT tell us? • Specific areas of instructional focus or where the gaps are in early literacy skills • What skills to progress monitor Acadience measure level data accomplishes both of these! Leaders and teachers need to get to this level in order to truly be driving instruction based on data.

21. Page 1 Write and Think Time Spend 5 minutes writing down bulleted points of what you want to tell parents and staff about Acadience reading. Think about: How often students are benchmarked? What we learn from benchmarking?

22. Acadience Reading : Early Literacy Skills and Acadience Sub-Measures

23. What are the basic early literacy skills measured in Acadience? Reading Comprehension Fluency and Accuracy Advanced Phonics Basic Phonics Phonemic Awareness

24. Basic Early Literacy Skills Phonemic Awareness The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words Alphabetic Principle and Basic Phonics Advanced Phonics and Accurate and Fluent Reading of Connected Text Reading Comprehension

25. Basic Early Literacy Skills Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Principle and Basic Phonics The ability to map sounds onto letters and blend those sounds into words Advanced Phonics and Accurate and Fluent Reading of Connected Text Reading Comprehension

26. Basic Early Literacy Skills Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Principle and Basic Phonics Advanced Phonics / Accurate and Fluent Reading of Connected Text The ability to decode multisyllabic words in text with automaticity and expression Reading Comprehension

27. Basic Early Literacy Skills Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Principle and Basic Phonics Advanced Phonics and Accurate and Fluent Reading of Connected Text Reading Comprehension The ability to make meaning from text

28. Basic Early Literacy Skills Used with the permission of Dynamic Measurement Group.

29. Acadience measures mapped to the Basic Early Literacy Skills

30. How does DIBELS Next measure early literacy skills?

31. * While LNF measures an important skill in a student's development, it does not correlate with any of the five Basic Early Literacy Skills. Benchmark Assessment Calendar

32. What contributes to the composite?

33. Page 2 Acadience Benchmark Goals

34. Page 3 3-2-1 Activity Take the next 5 minutes to write: 3 new learnings 2 ideas that came into sharper focus 1 lingering question When you are done writing we will share out..

35. Acadience Reading : Progress Monitoring

36. Assessment Options Benchmark • All students • Multiple measures • Three times a year • Identifies need for instructional support and Progress Monitoring Progress Monitoring • Primarily below and well below Benchmark students • Assessed every 7-10 (well below) or 10-12 (below) instructional days • Evaluates instructional effectiveness

37. CO Progress Monitoring Frequency

38. Best Practices Progress Monitor at, below, or above a student’s grade level. Measure progress in one or more skills areas. Aligned to support Check progress toward a specific goal. Verify previous results and effectiveness of support.

39. Progress Monitoring (PM) Use the same administration and scoring procedures as for Benchmark. It is likely that a student who is struggling will need to be progress monitored with a measure that is off-grade level. NWF PSF FSF DAZE ORF

40. Progress monitor in the measure that corresponds to the skill you are teaching aligned to the student data Which measure should I select?

41. Page 1 Write and Think Time Spend 5 minutes writing additional information you will want to share parents and staff about progress monitoring. Think about: How often are student progress monitored? How do we know what to progress monitor? Why do schools collect this data?

42. Reports: Beginning of the Year Administrator Level (Reporting and Analysis Suite RAS)

43. Page 4- 7

44. Reporting and Analysis Suite You will see five reports on this handout The three at the beginning of the year that you will focus on are: Benchmark Completion Comparing Populations Comparing Measures After you have progress monitoring data you will use : Progress Monitoring Fidelity After you have completed more than one benchmarking period you will use: Correlation Report

45. mCLASS Walk-through Log into mCLASS - URL - mclass.amplify.com Demo account information: • Username: dnext1 • Password:1234 I will walk us through a report and then you will pull the same report We will be referencing pages 5-10 in your Participants Notebook (Suggested Uses Document and Instructional Leader Action Plan) Questions…

46. mCLASS Landing Page

48. Progress Monitoring Fidelity

49. Comparing Populations

50. Comparing Populations