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Once students begin working in Read Naturally, you need to monitor their performance. Monitoring performance helps you to:
To monitor performance, you must first check to see if students are placed correctly and then keep students challenged.
Once a student has finished two or three stories, check the student's data to see if s/he is placed correctly. Refer to the student's story pages, graphs, and/or reports to find the necessary data.
To check placement, ask yourself:
Students are correctly placed when most of their data fit within these suggested ranges for cold and hot timings, number of practices, and comprehension questions. Use these guidelines and your teacher judgment to determine if placement is correct.
If a student has been incorrectly placed, explain to the student that you made a mistake when placing him/her. Then, adjust the student's level or goal as needed.
After checking placement, you will turn your attention to accelerating learning by keeping students challenged as they improve.
To be sure your students are continually challenged, regularly monitor their performance to determine if they need a change in level or goal. Every time you conduct a hot timing, make note of how each student is doing. You can make a change at any time, but do not make changes on every story. Typically, you should carefully review performance and consider changes after a student has completed 12 stories, since you will need to provide the student with a new set of stories.
If you see a trend in one or more of the following, it may be time to make a change:
Once you determine a change in level or goal is needed, you must decide which one to raise. When changing levels and goals, raise only one element at a time.
After a student completes all of the stories in a level, which is typically 24 stories, raise the student's level.
After the student completes 12 stories, if you need to make a change, consider the student's comprehension and accuracy, and use your teacher judgment.
If the student's comprehension is good and error rates are low, determine whether to raise the student's level or goal by considering the gains s/he needs to make in level of material and reading rate to achieve his/her long-term fluency goal. The student's long-term fluency goal is typically reading unpracticed, grade-level material at a rate that is at least at the 50th percentile of national norms.
Once you've decided which element to raise—level or goal—follow the guidelines below to help ensure the student's continued success.
A student is ready to leave Read Naturally when s/he meets the long-term fluency goal of reading unpracticed, grade-level material at a rate that is at least at the 50th percentile of national norms.
Because Read Naturally students listen to audio recordings of the stories and practice each story multiple times, their levels and goals in Read Naturally do not reflect the level and rate at which they read unpracticed material. So, in Read Naturally a student will need to work in material that is at least half a year to one year above his/her grade level before s/he is ready to leave the program.
Use a benchmark assessment tool to determine if a student has met his/her long-term fluency goal.
If a student is not making the appropriate gains, first check to make sure s/he is correctly and efficiently following the program steps. Use the Read Naturally ME Fidelity Checklists to help determine if a student is correctly and efficiently following the program steps.
If you have a student who is not making progress and is following the steps correctly, try the following troubleshooting tips:
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