![]() ![]() SMI shifts the paradigm from focusing on the skills students do not know to identifying what they already possess and are now ready to learn. It can also be used to measure longitudinal progress from k indergarten through Algebra II. Scholastic Math Inventory or SMI is a research-based, adaptive assessment that measures student readiness for instruction on mathematical concepts and skills. Reading Comprehension Assessment results indicate students’ reading levels on the Lexile Frameworks for Reading Scale. ![]() Questions assess students’ comprehension skills as applied to the passages. Each passage includes texts that students encounter both in and out of school and are drawn from a variety of content areas. Each item consists of a passage, a sentence stem, and four answer choices. The assessment includes nearly six thousand test items for students at all levels. The Reading Comprehension Assessment can be used to assess and monitor students’ growth in reading comprehension. Reading Comprehension Assessment (RCA) Grades K-12 The true test of comprehension lies in their ability to apply these skills to each book they read.Scholastic Reading Inventory College & Career (SRI) is a research-based, adaptive assessment that measures reading skills and longitudinal progress from kindergarten through college readiness. Ultimately, students should be applying the reading strategies they have learned in the classroom to their independent reading. Click here to view a sample question from a Reading Counts quiz. Students do not move up in Lexile level by taking Reading Counts quizzes instead, a student’s Lexile range is adjusted as the classroom teacher assesses each student’s reading growth and students take the SRI test. If they find there is a quiz for the book, they can take the quiz at school. If your child reads a book at home that is not available in our library, they may search the available quizzes. Our school has access to every Reading Counts quiz. Teachers may allow a student to retake the quiz if they score low and choose to reread the book. The types of questions on a Reading Counts quiz include recall and knowledge, author study, summarizing, cause and effect, sequencing, vocabulary, identifying information within the text, main idea and detail. ![]() Students demonstrate their understanding of a book by completing a short comprehension quiz on the computer. Reading Counts is an independent reading accountability program that measures and tracks a student’s reading progress. We encourage readers to recognize that classic, “too good to miss” books are found at all Lexile levels. Books written for older readers are often at higher Lexile levels. When selecting a book, it’s important to think about its intended audience. You can search our online Library catalog for books at a specific Lexile by performing a “Target Audience” search followed by a Lexile number. This site will also allow you to create and print lists of books in a specific Lexile range. If you have books from home or the public library, you can click here to search for the Lexile level of a book. Thousands of books have been “Lexiled” and it is easy for a teacher, student, or parent to look up the Lexile level of a book. In addition to checking out Lexiled books, students are encouraged to check out “choice” books that do not have a Lexile level. Teachers encourage students to read at their Lexile range across many genres of fiction and non-fiction books. Once they know their Lexile range, students select books from our Library or classroom books.
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