PMS Read 180/System 44 Tip Sheet

Collective Tips from Pinacate Middle School Read 180 Teachers

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Getting Started in HMH

How to Determine Whether to Place Students in System 44 or Read 180

Enroll Students in System 44 or Read 180 AND Assign Reading Inventory and Phonics Inventory

Grading and Progress Monitoring

Finding Class Lexile Scores & Seeing Year-End Proficiency Lexile Ranges

Student Application: Check System 44 Progress

Student Application: Check Read 180 Progress

Independent Reading

Sample Syllabus & Rubrics

Classroom Management

Rotation Schedule Ideas for Block Schedules

Rosetta Stone Integration

Miscellaneous

Books

Logistics

Expectations

Getting Started in HMH

How to Determine Whether to Place Students in System 44 or Read 180

• Reading Inventory all students

• If Lexile is above 500, straight Read 180
• If Lexile is below 500, test Phonics Inventory

• If score is Advancing, put in Read 180 (this means they know phonics)
• If score is anything else, put in System 44

Enroll Students in System 44 or Read 180 AND Assign Reading Inventory and Phonics Inventory

1. Roster
2. Manage student enrollment
3. Click checkboxes for what they need (must unclick to re-assign)

1. Read 180 B (middle school)
2. System 44 B (middle school)

(If a box won’t check, uncheck and re-check.  If that doesn’t work, email Tippie; it means we are out of licenses.)

Grading and Progress Monitoring

Finding Class Lexile Scores & Seeing Year-End Proficiency Lexile Ranges

1. SAM
2. Click on class
3. Reports
4. The Reading Inventory > Reading Performance Report
5. Run Report

Reading Inventory and Phonics Inventory Testing Pacing

• Reading Inventory: 4 times per year
• Phonics: 3 times per year
• Suggested schedule for Reading Inventory

• August
• Late October-Early November
• February
• End of Year

• Suggested schedule for Phonics Inventory

• August
• January (skip Read 180 kids)
• End of Year

• PUHSD Assessment Calendar for 2016-2017 (delayed for this year)

Checking Time Spent on Reading Inventory

1. SAM
2. Click on class
3. Reports
4. The Reading Inventory > Instructional Planning Report
5. Run Report (It will not show up until you print preview)
6. Look for students with red flags

1. SAM
2. Click on student name (stay in reports)
3. Scroll to bottom > Student Test Printout
4. Open document
5. Look at test time at the top (Should be at least 15 minutes)

Checking Time Spent on Phonics Inventory

1. Not available (Should be quick)

Check Recent Reading Inventory Completion

1. SAM
2. Class
3. The Reading Inventory > Growth Report
4. Compare dates of first and last test

Check Reading Inventory Growth

1. SAM
2. Class
3. The Reading Inventory > Growth Report
4. Look at Growth in Lexile

1. Concern over students who drop more than 100 points

Check Individual Growth in Lexile Toward Annual Goal

1. SAM
2. Reports
3. Class
4. Reading Inventory > Growth Goals Report

1. See student expected growth in Lexile (customized by student in relation to original Lexiles)
2. See growth goal status

Student Application: Check System 44 Progress

1. Reports
2. System 44
3. Reading Progress Report
4. Look at Topics Completed column

(Tip: Focus on number of topics completed, other districts recommend one topic per day/session/block. Priester is expecting 8 topics per month.)

Student Application: Check Read 180 Progress

1. HMH Teacher Central
2. Data Dashboard
3. Select class
4. Read 180 Student Application  
5. Look at Segments column
6. Look over to see grades for different categories, such as Success Zone

(Tip: Focus on number of segments completed.  Other districts recommend one segment per month.  Priester is expecting one segment per month and a Success Zone score higher than 90%.)

Independent Reading

1. HMH Teacher Central
2. Data Dashboard
3. Select class
4. Independent Reading
5. Click student name
6. Check quiz scores by books

(Tips: Priester allow up to three retakes and uses most recent quiz score.  Priester expects two books per month for System 44 students and one book per month for Read 180 students.)

Sample Syllabus & Rubrics

Priester’s Rubrics & Syllabus

• Syllabus
• Rubrics

• Reading Inventory
• Phonics Inventory
• Student Application

• Read 180
• System 44

• Independent Reading

• Read 180
• System 44
• Rosetta Stone

Classroom Management

Student Grouping

Sample Grouping for Stations for Mixed Read 180 and System 44 Classes

• Groups

• Group A - Highest Lexile scores
• Group B - Medium Lexile and/or phonics scores
• Group C - Lowest Lexile and/or phonics

• Small Group/Teacher Station Content

• Group A -  Read 180 small group lesson
• Group B - System 44 small group
• Group C - System 44 small group

Rotation Schedule Ideas for Block Schedules

Priester’s Schedule

(Priester uses this because she found that students took a few minutes to login in and settle into each station.  It gives 25-30 minutes per station with calm transitions. It also creates a window of time for a reader’s workshop (silent reading) of non-Read 180 books at the beginning of class and time for a brief daily class community circle.)

Schedule Suggested by Rep

Rosetta Stone Integration

• If possible, put newcomers who use Rosetta Stone in one group, such as Group C
• During Independent Reading station, have them use Rosetta Stone instead
• Expect them to participate in whole group Read 180 lessons and small group System 44 lessons (scaffold as much as possible)

Miscellaneous

Books

• Read 180 and System 44 have different libraries.  If you move a student from one program to the other, they will will no longer be able to continue reading books in the other system.
• If you use paper books, keep the Read 180 and System 44 books separate.  Students can only access book quizzes for book within their program’s library.
• Most of the physical books have the Lexile number printed on the back cover.  For the ones that do not, you can just google their Lexiles and label them with a Sharpie.
• More books are available in the digital library than the physical library.  
• For some reason, few books are available around certain Lexile levels, such as 500.

Logistics

• If the students struggle to move from station to station, assign their seats in groups and move to them instead of having them move
• When leading small groups, sit with your back to a wall/corner and have the students working at the Independent Reading and Student Application stations angle their desks so you can see all screens
• Ask students to bring their own headphones
• Post a list of needed supplies by group on the board at the beginning of class

Expectations

• Priester and Rawlings found that using time on task to grade students does not lead to an increase in application use.  Many students just sat and listened to music instead of putting in effort to complete topics and segments, especially when they were required to speak into the microphone.

Newcomers

• Put newcomers in one group.  Do System 44 for student application.  Use newcomer lessons for small group.
• Resources

• Newcomer Workbook
• Newcomer Answer Guide 
• Newcomer Teaching Guide 

Random

• If a student’s Chromebook is in Spanish, the Reading Inventory questions and text will be in Spanish.  To fix this, go to Remove a Reading Inventory Test Score and delete the score.  Then, have the student retake the test using a Chromebook browser that is in English.
• If a student accidentally takes a Reading Inventory outside of the testing window, Remove a Reading Inventory Test Score.
• To get higher Reading Inventory Score, give assessment in 20 minute time chunks.  Be sure that students log out and SAVE their scores.
• If students complain that they just did something yesterday, they probably didn’t log off or they didn’t finish the activity/page they are on .
• Students must SAVE and logout everyday. Give two minutes for them to log off.

Running Student Application

Have para run - train para - skip quickwrites - open quizzes after completion of WS

Resources

• Share this Reading Inventory presentation to help students prepare for the test

NOTES for TODAY - TO SORT

CELDT February  of next year

Add Spanish Chrome thing

Remove a Reading Inventory Test Score

1. SAM
2. Roster
3. Student name
4. Reading Inventory
5. Grading Tools
6. Find test date > Remove

Suggested Exit Criteria

1. SAM
2. Click on class
3. Reports
4. The Reading Inventory > Instructional Planning Report
5. Run Report (It will not show up until you print preview)
6. Examine each student’s scores

1. Lexile: compare student’s score to grade level in Year-End Proficiency Ranges
2. Normative Data

1. Percentile Rank: should be above 50%
2. NCE:  should be above 50%
3. STANINE: should be 5 or higher

Access Common Core Year-End Proficiency Lexile Ranges

1. SAM
2. Roster
3. Select class
4. Reading Intervention
5. Settings > Advanced Settings Tab
6. 

Phonics Inventory Ranges

Determining 180 or 44

• Below 600, take Phonics
• Screening and Placement Report

• Step 1

1. SAM
2. Reports
3. Class
4. Phonics Inventory > Screening and Placement Report > Run report
5. Look at students in yellow, if scores are above 18 flag students (Lexile score that shows

• Step 2

6. SAM
7. Reports
8. Class
9. System 44  > Reading Progress Report > Run Report
10. Find student
11. Look at

1. Decoding Accuracy Score
2. Decoding Fluency Score
3. Spelling Score
4. Comprehension Score

12. If scores are above 90%, move to Read 180.  Comprehension score may be lower, but that means they are ready for Read 180.

Screening and Placement Report

Grading System 44 Quickwrites

1. Teacher Central
2. Resources
3. System 44
4. Foundational Reading
5. Copies of Worksheets: System 44 Secondary Graphic Organizers and Quickwrites
6. Copies of Answer Keys

To Assign Workshop Assessments for System 44 (Interim and End of Workshop)

1. Teacher Central
2. Teach
3. Teacher Tools
4. Assignment Board
5. Assessment
6. Select an Assessment

1. Workshop Interim
2. End of Workshop

To Grade Fluency Check (one per segment at Success Zone)

1. HMH
2. Teach
3. Teacher Tools
4. Assignment Check
5. Click on Fluency Check

To Grade Fluency Check