How to improve MAP-R scores

[Anonymous]

My 5th grader got a poor MAP/R score - she is usually in the low 90s percentile wise but this has dropped to 83rd percentile this Fall! MAP-M is 99th!
How do I help her? She is getting straight As in class. Would appreciate any suggestions.

[Anonymous]

Why do you need her to get it back up? Are you applying for a magnet middle school? If not, don't stress it. If she had 99% I would work on relieving test anxiety. That's why my former 99% kid has lower scores now. She has more awareness of tests and even though we tell her it doesn't matter, the school put a ton of emphasis on tests and she panics.

[Anonymous]

read. read. read some more.

[Anonymous]

Our teacher recommended Common Lit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our teacher recommended Common Lit.

Can you elaborate further please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:read. read. read some more.

And she needs to read more complex text than whatever she is reading now. That includes non-fiction. When I tutored, I had the kids read newspaper and magazine articles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our teacher recommended Common Lit.

Can you elaborate further please?

DP

https://www.commonlit.org/en

You can get free reading reading passages and comprehension questions.

[Anonymous]

My older kids MAP scores bounce around all over the place. I wouldn’t put too much stock into them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 5th grader got a poor MAP/R score - she is usually in the low 90s percentile wise but this has dropped to 83rd percentile this Fall! MAP-M is 99th!
How do I help her? She is getting straight As in class. Would appreciate any suggestions.

Have read books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My older kids MAP scores bounce around all over the place. I wouldn’t put too much stock into them.

+1
But really the only answer to that is reading a lot.

[Anonymous]

My child is somewhat similar. MAP-M is in the 99.99th just with one hour tutoring per week. On the other hand, her MAP-R is consistently in the 94th even though she works with two excellent reading specialists (online tutoring). This involves learning with one of the reading specialists for 5 hours a week (by her choice.) Her MAP-R score is totally flat for the last two years. I think most kids would increasingly improve in this situation, but mine doesn't. But it's okay - the important thing for me is that she likes reading, discussing, and quizzed by the reading specialists. She doesn't enjoy reading books all by herself (she loves writing by herself).

I don't make her read more because I don't think it will help and I don't want to MAKE her read. Maybe things will click for her (reading comprehension, etc.) one day, or maybe not. I am fine as long as she enjoys reading. It's interesting to me how math comes so so easy for her while reading doesn't.

I have a friend whose daughter reads up to five hours a day and has very high MAP-R score and moderate MAP-M score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is somewhat similar. MAP-M is in the 99.99th just with one hour tutoring per week. On the other hand, her MAP-R is consistently in the 94th even though she works with two excellent reading specialists (online tutoring). This involves learning with one of the reading specialists for 5 hours a week (by her choice.) Her MAP-R score is totally flat for the last two years. I think most kids would increasingly improve in this situation, but mine doesn't. But it's okay - the important thing for me is that she likes reading, discussing, and quizzed by the reading specialists. She doesn't enjoy reading books all by herself (she loves writing by herself).

I don't make her read more because I don't think it will help and I don't want to MAKE her read. Maybe things will click for her (reading comprehension, etc.) one day, or maybe not. I am fine as long as she enjoys reading. It's interesting to me how math comes so so easy for her while reading doesn't.

I have a friend whose daughter reads up to five hours a day and has very high MAP-R score and moderate MAP-M score.

How do you know the score is 99.99 percentile? The MAP reports and norms I’ve seen stop at 99 percentile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is somewhat similar. MAP-M is in the 99.99th just with one hour tutoring per week. On the other hand, her MAP-R is consistently in the 94th even though she works with two excellent reading specialists (online tutoring). This involves learning with one of the reading specialists for 5 hours a week (by her choice.) Her MAP-R score is totally flat for the last two years. I think most kids would increasingly improve in this situation, but mine doesn't. But it's okay - the important thing for me is that she likes reading, discussing, and quizzed by the reading specialists. She doesn't enjoy reading books all by herself (she loves writing by herself).

I don't make her read more because I don't think it will help and I don't want to MAKE her read. Maybe things will click for her (reading comprehension, etc.) one day, or maybe not. I am fine as long as she enjoys reading. It's interesting to me how math comes so so easy for her while reading doesn't.

I have a friend whose daughter reads up to five hours a day and has very high MAP-R score and moderate MAP-M score.

How do you know the score is 99.99 percentile? The MAP reports and norms I’ve seen stop at 99 percentile.

Her teacher got it from NWEA. You can also use MAP Score to Percentile Converter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is somewhat similar. MAP-M is in the 99.99th just with one hour tutoring per week. On the other hand, her MAP-R is consistently in the 94th even though she works with two excellent reading specialists (online tutoring). This involves learning with one of the reading specialists for 5 hours a week (by her choice.) Her MAP-R score is totally flat for the last two years. I think most kids would increasingly improve in this situation, but mine doesn't. But it's okay - the important thing for me is that she likes reading, discussing, and quizzed by the reading specialists. She doesn't enjoy reading books all by herself (she loves writing by herself).

I don't make her read more because I don't think it will help and I don't want to MAKE her read. Maybe things will click for her (reading comprehension, etc.) one day, or maybe not. I am fine as long as she enjoys reading. It's interesting to me how math comes so so easy for her while reading doesn't.

I have a friend whose daughter reads up to five hours a day and has very high MAP-R score and moderate MAP-M score.

How do you know the score is 99.99 percentile? The MAP reports and norms I’ve seen stop at 99 percentile.

Her teacher got it from NWEA. You can also use MAP Score to Percentile Converter.

You mean the norm tables? They only go to 99 percentile:

https://teach.mapnwea.org/impl/MAPGrowthNormativeDataOverview.pdf

Did the teacher say she is in the 99.99 percentile or she gave you a report showing that percentile? Usually the report only gives you the RIT score and the score on subsections, and the percentile rounded to the nearest integer.

It’s fine if you just assumed or extrapolated, please don’t make things up, I’m genuinely interested in knowing the answer.

[Anonymous]

Agree with PP’s suggestion to have your child read nonfiction. My kid loves the magazine The Week Junior.