Anonymous
Post 12/23/2022 10:01     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
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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.

Is there a way to get answer key to comprehension questions as a parent/guardian?


You can sign up as a teacher and create assignments for your child. Then you get reports on what they get right/wrong.

How do you do that without school email?


I can’t remember, as it was several years ago, but I think a teacher account because I created a class and enrolled one student (my kid) in it

I just did it with email. I created a class of one - my kid

Did you create a parent account or a teacher account? With parent account you won't have answer key I think.
Anonymous
Post 12/23/2022 03:38     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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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.

Is there a way to get answer key to comprehension questions as a parent/guardian?


You can sign up as a teacher and create assignments for your child. Then you get reports on what they get right/wrong.

How do you do that without school email?


I just did it with email. I created a class of one - my kid

Did you create a parent account or a teacher account? With parent account you won't have answer key I think.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2022 21:42     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Is there a way to get answer key to comprehension questions as a parent/guardian?


You can sign up as a teacher and create assignments for your child. Then you get reports on what they get right/wrong.

How do you do that without school email?


I just did it with email. I created a class of one - my kid
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2022 19:12     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
The kid is in the 83rd %. They did not so poorly on the MAP-R. This is why kids have anxiety, because their parents believe if they haven’t scored in the 99th % on a standardized exam something is wrong. Let the kid read what they want and move on.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2022 18:33     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
I have straight-A, 99 percentile kids in both MAP reading and math, but there is a huge difference in their personalities which results in different achievement levels. One is performance driven, the other is a natural underachiever. The personality accounts for something, not just top 1 percentile.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2022 18:21     Subject: Re:How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:Given the discussion here, I'd like to point out that the MAP tests are specifically NOT designed to differentiate on the high end. Roughly speaking, on the high end (say 95% give or take) the test becomes unreliable. It's geared for measuring movement near the middle of the distribution, and one should take with a grain of salt high end scores. Basically a 5% percent change from 59% to 55% may mean something; a change from 99% to 95% percent may just be noise in the test.

For the OP, the numbers you mention, especially for a (currently) one-off drop, shouldn't be too concerning. Could just be a bad test day.
As others (and you) said, perhaps a subtle pushing of more complex texts may be all that is needed, and may indeed be unnecessary.


I disagree. There is a great difference in IQ and academic achievement between my son who scores around the 95th percentile, and my daughter who never goes below the 99th. At the extremes, differences become more pronounced.

Anonymous
Post 12/22/2022 18:04     Subject: Re:How to improve MAP-R scores
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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.



I wish I had the link in front of me—it’s been posted and reposted many times on this forum, but the MAP Score to Percentile Converter is on a Google page of some sort. It converts RIT to the exact percentage, not rounded like in the norms table.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2022 10:36     Subject: Re:How to improve MAP-R scores
Given the discussion here, I'd like to point out that the MAP tests are specifically NOT designed to differentiate on the high end. Roughly speaking, on the high end (say 95% give or take) the test becomes unreliable. It's geared for measuring movement near the middle of the distribution, and one should take with a grain of salt high end scores. Basically a 5% percent change from 59% to 55% may mean something; a change from 99% to 95% percent may just be noise in the test.

For the OP, the numbers you mention, especially for a (currently) one-off drop, shouldn't be too concerning. Could just be a bad test day.
As others (and you) said, perhaps a subtle pushing of more complex texts may be all that is needed, and may indeed be unnecessary.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 16:10     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:Agree with PP’s suggestion to have your child read nonfiction. My kid loves the magazine The Week Junior.


I’m the PP who suggested it. I teach social studies in MCPS. A good source of non-fiction text to nudge your child’s reading levels is Newsela. It provides interesting non-fiction, often current news stories, and you can toggle the reading levels to be easier or harder. Usually, there are three to four different levels. The readings are accompanied by a “quiz” and the answer key is provided, OP.

Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 16:09     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
I usually buy the Spectrum workbooks from Amazon for language arts and reading comprehension. DC is in 4th with a 98% map-r and is currently working through 8th grade Spectrum workbooks.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 16:06     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:My older kids MAP scores bounce around all over the place. I wouldn’t put too much stock into them.


There shouldn’t be more than small dips.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 14:23     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Is there a way to get answer key to comprehension questions as a parent/guardian?


You can sign up as a teacher and create assignments for your child. Then you get reports on what they get right/wrong.

How do you do that without school email?
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 14:20     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Is there a way to get answer key to comprehension questions as a parent/guardian?


You can sign up as a teacher and create assignments for your child. Then you get reports on what they get right/wrong.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 14:04     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Anonymous wrote:
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.

Is there a way to get answer key to comprehension questions as a parent/guardian?
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2022 13:07     Subject: How to improve MAP-R scores
Select books with rich vocabulary and complex sentences - not today's popular novels that are basically action mainlined straight into a major vein. It's fine to read to her as well. Find some children's classics.

Also, specifically for reading comprehension, Inference Jones is a great workbook.