Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During our last conference, our kid's teacher said a few things.

I-ready is DONE. They are not using it anymore. It's over. She doesn't know what will replace it, fwiw.

DRA is DONE. The county pulled DRA resources because it's too expensive but it is really the best (according to this teacher) way for a teacher to assess a kid's reading progress. She doesn't know what will replace it because the new governor/sec. of ed changed the literacy monitoring requirements and standards (?). The county won't buy anything until the state decides later this summer.

So, next year is going to be weird, fwiw. SOLs remain, though.

Your teacher was misinformed. DRA is going away, but iReady is not. They are actually investing more money in it and buying more of the modules. iReady is the reading assessment tool replacing the DRA. They are replacing DRA because it is a leveled reader and FCPS is moving more towards the Science of Reading methodology and not Lucy Culkins and Fontas and Pinnell….although money is always a factor for FCPS.

Different FCPS teacher. Iready according to our admin is not being used next year. The state’s reading program is supposed to be more phonics based and we are getting Orton Gillingham training from our reading specialists who are now OG trained. Current state of play in region 4.

No one knows what assessment tool is going to be used. It’s not Iready though.

DP
Well, iReady is being used this year and I haven't heard anything about OG training. iReady was used to invite students to before/after school remediation.

Region 4 ES Teacher

Anonymous wrote:SOL score ranges from 0 to 600. Does iReady use the same range?

https://www.fcps.edu/news/benchmarking-data-students-start-2021-22-school-year

Another teacher here. Please do not stress over your child’s iReady scores. It does not match the pacing guide that we use. If we taught addition and subtraction of fractions and lowest terms, and your child scored poorly on geometry and multiple of fractions, that’s because we didn’t teach it yet this year at that grade level.

I, also, look at the scores and then file them. They are not helpful to me. I know what a child can do by looking at their classwork and seeing how they approached a problem or concept, and by discussing that approach. A test like iReady is a moment in time. And it takes a really long time for special ed kids, which means lost instructional time.

If your kid is supposed to have two hours of math pull-out a week, and it’s iReady week, they will not get the two hours. The testing will count for it. If parents knew how often kids did not get their hours met, the place would collapse.

Anonymous wrote:SOL score ranges from 0 to 600. Does iReady use the same range?

No

SOL score ranges from 0 to 600. Does iReady use the same range?

My kid scored 99th percentile in Math but her score was very average sounding. How is this possible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During our last conference, our kid's teacher said a few things.

I-ready is DONE. They are not using it anymore. It's over. She doesn't know what will replace it, fwiw.

DRA is DONE. The county pulled DRA resources because it's too expensive but it is really the best (according to this teacher) way for a teacher to assess a kid's reading progress. She doesn't know what will replace it because the new governor/sec. of ed changed the literacy monitoring requirements and standards (?). The county won't buy anything until the state decides later this summer.

So, next year is going to be weird, fwiw. SOLs remain, though.

Your teacher was misinformed. DRA is going away, but iReady is not. They are actually investing more money in it and buying more of the modules. iReady is the reading assessment tool replacing the DRA. They are replacing DRA because it is a leveled reader and FCPS is moving more towards the Science of Reading methodology and not Lucy Culkins and Fontas and Pinnell….although money is always a factor for FCPS.

DRA is a massive time suck as well. It is given individually to each child and takes a lot of time.

iReady still sucks though. It is given too often and kids don't really care that much about it so they speed through it to get to the games or just be done and do anything else.

+1 on the DRA. We lose a ton of instructional time.

My third graders took the iReady in September and then again in June. I think they took it seriously and most did quite well, but we really don’t use it for anything. They take it, I see the results, and then I that’s it.

My kid takes it seriously but plenty of his classmates don't. He scores high on them. He doesn't need to take it 3 times a year.

I understand. None of them needed to take it 3 times unless the school made that decision. Our students all took it twice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During our last conference, our kid's teacher said a few things.

I-ready is DONE. They are not using it anymore. It's over. She doesn't know what will replace it, fwiw.

DRA is DONE. The county pulled DRA resources because it's too expensive but it is really the best (according to this teacher) way for a teacher to assess a kid's reading progress. She doesn't know what will replace it because the new governor/sec. of ed changed the literacy monitoring requirements and standards (?). The county won't buy anything until the state decides later this summer.

So, next year is going to be weird, fwiw. SOLs remain, though.

Your teacher was misinformed. DRA is going away, but iReady is not. They are actually investing more money in it and buying more of the modules. iReady is the reading assessment tool replacing the DRA. They are replacing DRA because it is a leveled reader and FCPS is moving more towards the Science of Reading methodology and not Lucy Culkins and Fontas and Pinnell….although money is always a factor for FCPS.

DRA is a massive time suck as well. It is given individually to each child and takes a lot of time.

iReady still sucks though. It is given too often and kids don't really care that much about it so they speed through it to get to the games or just be done and do anything else.

+1 on the DRA. We lose a ton of instructional time.

My third graders took the iReady in September and then again in June. I think they took it seriously and most did quite well, but we really don’t use it for anything. They take it, I see the results, and then I that’s it.

My kid takes it seriously but plenty of his classmates don't. He scores high on them. He doesn't need to take it 3 times a year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During our last conference, our kid's teacher said a few things.

I-ready is DONE. They are not using it anymore. It's over. She doesn't know what will replace it, fwiw.

DRA is DONE. The county pulled DRA resources because it's too expensive but it is really the best (according to this teacher) way for a teacher to assess a kid's reading progress. She doesn't know what will replace it because the new governor/sec. of ed changed the literacy monitoring requirements and standards (?). The county won't buy anything until the state decides later this summer.

So, next year is going to be weird, fwiw. SOLs remain, though.

Your teacher was misinformed. DRA is going away, but iReady is not. They are actually investing more money in it and buying more of the modules. iReady is the reading assessment tool replacing the DRA. They are replacing DRA because it is a leveled reader and FCPS is moving more towards the Science of Reading methodology and not Lucy Culkins and Fontas and Pinnell….although money is always a factor for FCPS.

Different FCPS teacher. Iready according to our admin is not being used next year. The state’s reading program is supposed to be more phonics based and we are getting Orton Gillingham training from our reading specialists who are now OG trained. Current state of play in region 4.

No one knows what assessment tool is going to be used. It’s not Iready though.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During our last conference, our kid's teacher said a few things.

I-ready is DONE. They are not using it anymore. It's over. She doesn't know what will replace it, fwiw.

DRA is DONE. The county pulled DRA resources because it's too expensive but it is really the best (according to this teacher) way for a teacher to assess a kid's reading progress. She doesn't know what will replace it because the new governor/sec. of ed changed the literacy monitoring requirements and standards (?). The county won't buy anything until the state decides later this summer.

So, next year is going to be weird, fwiw. SOLs remain, though.

Your teacher was misinformed. DRA is going away, but iReady is not. They are actually investing more money in it and buying more of the modules. iReady is the reading assessment tool replacing the DRA. They are replacing DRA because it is a leveled reader and FCPS is moving more towards the Science of Reading methodology and not Lucy Culkins and Fontas and Pinnell….although money is always a factor for FCPS.

DRA is a massive time suck as well. It is given individually to each child and takes a lot of time.

iReady still sucks though. It is given too often and kids don't really care that much about it so they speed through it to get to the games or just be done and do anything else.

+1 on the DRA. We lose a ton of instructional time.

My third graders took the iReady in September and then again in June. I think they took it seriously and most did quite well, but we really don’t use it for anything. They take it, I see the results, and then I that’s it.