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What is the role of accuracy in placing students in Read Naturally ME, Read Naturally SE, Read Live, and One Minute Reader?
In most cases, we do not isolate and then use the accuracy scores to place students in Read Naturally. Accuracy is accounted for in the words-correct-per-minute score obtained in the placement process, because errors are subtracted to calculate the score.
One way Read Naturally accelerates students’ reading is by teaching unfamiliar words. The students learn the unfamiliar words from a model during the read-along step, and then they master them during the repeated reading step. So students can be (and should be) placed in levels in which they make some errors.
However, if a student’s scores indicate the student could be placed in two or more levels, the teacher should take the student’s accuracy into consideration in selecting the best level for the student.