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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the upper grades (3-5), MIRL will be completed for everyone at the beginning of the year. It still will have to be done monthly (and data entered) for all students not meeting benchmark (are below grade level). There will be a new assessment that will be administered once a marking period using a rigorous text.

And MCPS teachers...EMAT and progress checks are no longer required (individual schools can decide if they will still use them). There will be a NEW math assessment that will be used this year  :shock: [/quote]

I don't see the problem with this. Kids who are below grade level will be identified, tracked, and monitored (and hopefully provided appropriate interventions). Kids who are at or above grade level will be given challenging reading material. Do you really need to know if they are reading at level S or level T? I can think of a lot of things I'd rather the teacher spend time on than measuring that every month. [/quote]

I'm a secondary teacher (English).  We test reading levels twice a year - or more, if students are in intervention classes.  To be honest, however, you can't introduce complex texts if you don't know a student's reading level, which can indeed change from one month to the next.  What is complex for one may be too easy for another.

Furthermore, text complexity isn't simply a lexile score.  A work from Cisneros, for example, which is often rich in figurative devices, could stump a student as well.  So while the words aren't elevated, the imagery (associated with metaphors and similes) is.  Analyzing her writing style requires a different skill set.[/quote]

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