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District reports improvement on K–3 literacy screener; discusses Act 422 third‑grade retention rules
Summary
Terrebonne Parish reported K–3 literacy screener results showing an increase from 59% to 68% of students at or above benchmark year‑to‑year and reviewed third‑grade retention outcomes under Act 422, including 23 retained third graders (2% of the cohort).
District assessment staff reported July 17 that results from the K–3 literacy screening showed gains and discussed how the state’s third‑grade retention law (Act 422) factored into promotion decisions.
Monica Bridal, assessment and accountability supervisor, described the district's K–3 screener (based on the science of reading) comprising six measures: letter naming fluency, phonemic segmentation fluency, nonsense word fluency, word reading fluency, oral reading fluency and a maze comprehension probe. She said scoring for each probe feeds…
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