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Schools use Acadience Reading checkups to spot early literacy needs
Summary
A school staff member described Acadience Reading, a set of brief one-on-one assessments used from kindergarten through sixth grade to measure specific reading skills, produce a color-coded benchmark result and guide targeted instruction and progress monitoring.
A school staff member (presenter) explained that Acadience Reading is a series of short, one-on-one checkups schools use to see whether students from kindergarten through sixth grade are developing key reading skills. "It's not a big scary test," the presenter said, describing the tool as a routine checkup teachers use to identify needs early and target supports.
Acadience breaks reading into component skills—described in the presentation as strands of a "reading rope"—and each checkup assesses a specific…
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