Assessment™RAPID

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most predictive of reading success

ScreenREADING & LANGUAGE SKILLS

IdentifyINSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS & FOCUS

MeasureSKILL DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH

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K-12 ADAPTIVE READING ASSESSMENT

Prepare All Students for Reading SuccessLexia RAPID Assessment™ helps teachers and educational leaders make decisions that promote reading success for all students. This computer-adaptive reading assessment for K-12 students allows educators to strategically gather predictive, norm-referenced data, up to three times a year, with immediate scoring and reports.

MAKE DATA-DRIVEN INSTRUCTIONAL DECISIONS.Every day, educators make decisions about classroom instruction. RAPID provides teachers and leaders with actionable data to improve student outcomes.

RAPID helps educators:

● Predict the likelihood of students achieving end-of-year reading success.

● Screen and monitor reading and language skills.

● Identify instructional needs.

● Reliably measure growth.

Educators can connect data to instruction with:

● Reports that are immediately available and simple to interpret.

● Lessons developed by literacy experts that address identified skill gaps.

● Guidance from Lexia implementation and professional learning experts.

SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE.Students in all grades need to acquire and apply academic language to express complex ideas and engage deeply with texts. As students progress through school, the challenges of using and comprehending academic language increase. By focusing on academic language skills in instruction and assessment, educators have the potential to make a meaningful impact on students’ overall academic achievement.

Assess academic language skills with relevant tasks, and connect

data to instruction with targeted lessons and activities.

Assess K–12 Literacy SkillsMEASURE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN THREE KEY DOMAINS.RAPID provides educators with data on student skill development and growth with grade-dependent tasks in the domains of word recognition, academic language, and reading comprehension.

● For grades K-2, RAPID assesses foundational skills with both teacher- and student-led tasks, for administration one-on-one or in small groups.

● For grades 3-12, tasks that assess complex knowledge, understanding, and application are group-administered in a classroom or computer lab.

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Assessment™RAPID

Strategically Gather Data to Inform Instruction

Lexia RAPID Assessment for Grades K–12

SCREEN AND MONITOR READING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS.

Assess the current probability of student reading success, and determine the level of

instructional intensity needed to reach grade level by the end of the school year.

MINIMIZE TIME SPENT ON TESTING.

RAPID uses adaptive technology to precisely assess student skill development and growth

while minimizing time spent on testing.

● Measure the Most Predictive Skills: Rather than assessing a multitude of skills, RAPID sensitively and reliably measures the skills most predictive of reading success in less than 60 minutes. That means educators can focus time and effort where they are most likely to make an impact.

● Target Tasks to Each Student’s Level: By adapting assessment tasks to each student’s specific skill level, RAPID reduces time spent on testing, as well as student boredom and frustration.

● Access Data Immediately: Educators can access results immediately online, without spending valuable time on paper scoring or data entry.

The Reading Success Probability score helps determine the risk level for each student, so that teachers can make effective instructional decisions and structure lessons appropriately.

Administrators can view likelihood of success at the class, school, and district level, which helps them set instructional priorities and allocate resources to support student achievement.

The Reading Success Probability indicates the

likelihood of success on a gold-standard, national

outcome measure, based on student performance

in the most recent assessment period.

Strategically Gather Data to Inform InstructionIDENTIFY INSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS.

Profile individual student strengths and weaknesses, and group students with similar

instructional needs.

The Diagnostic Profile provides teachers with an instructional focus for each student based on strengths and weaknesses in key skills.

Building and district leaders can use school- and district-wide profiles to assess the need for curriculum review or additional professional development for teachers and staff to address achievement gaps.

RAPID also groups students with similar profiles and needs, and provides teachers with a resource library of instructional connections, developed by literacy experts, to address identified skills one-on-one, or in small-group instruction.

Students are grouped by instructional need, helping teachers focus instruction on the skill

domains that will support student success.Lexia® Connections address literacy skills through

lessons that include reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities.

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Common Latin PrefixesLatin Prefix Sample Words

ab- = away from abduct, absentad- = toward

advise, admitcon- = together conduct, contractde- = down, away detract, destructdis- = not or apart disagree, disobey; disrupt, distantex-/e- = out/away, from export, expelin- = not or in

incorrect, inactive; income, intakemis- = wrong

mislead, misprintnon- = not

nonsense, nonstopob- = against

object, obstructpre- = before predict, prescribepro- = forward produce, propelre- = again, back replay, returnsub- = under/below subtract, subjectun- = not

unkind, unwise

Latin Prefixes–continued

Curriculum Connection

Copy a page from a

math, science, history,

or geography text.

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prefixes as they can on

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time discussing findings

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Structural Analysis

Skill Sequence

• Simple Suffixes

• LATIN PREFIXES

• Latin Suffixes

• Spelling Rules:

Doubling & Drop E

• Prefix Meanings

• Root Meanings

• Prefix Change Rules

• Spelling Rules:

Change y to i

• Greek Combining Forms

• Special Accent Rules

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Latin Prefixes

Latin prefixes are word parts that come at the beginning of the word

and change the meaning, and occasionally the form, of a base word.

The ability to recognize Latin prefixes helps students understand

the structure and meaning of words (prefix, root/base word, suffix),

allows students to develop word identification strategies for

multisyllabic words, and serves as a foundation for understanding

the most common spelling rules.

Classroom Ideas

As necessary, teach or review the definition of a prefix. Teach

students to break down words with prefixes by displaying example

words (e.g., return) and then having students circle the prefix,

underline the rest of the word and read it, and then read the whole

word.

Say words that contain prefixes aloud. Ask students to repeat the

words first; then, have them say or write only the prefix that is

contained in the word. Provide visual references (such as prefix

words cards) as necessary.

Write a number of words that include Latin prefixes on cards (or

dictate them to students). Have students sort the words by prefix

and then read each word. If necessary, provide a limited number of

prefixes at a time.

Write a newly learned prefix (e.g., pre-) in the middle of a circle.

Ask students to generate as many words as they can that contain

the prefix (e.g., preview, preheat); add those words to the outside

of the circle. Then, assign students to their own prefixes and have

them repeat the exercise. Provide resource materials as needed.

Provide students with word cards that contain a variety of prefixes

(e.g, in-, mis-) and base words (e.g, take, lead). Challenge them to

combine the prefixes and base words to create as many real words

as possible. Ask students to record the words as they create them.

LEXIA® CONNECTIONS

RAPID measures each skill on its own developmental scale.

RELIABLY MEASURE GROWTH.

Track student progress, through the school year and across multiple years, by focusing on

the skills most predictive of reading success.

Teachers can track whether students have improved in key skill areas, and determine if current instruction is having the desired impact.

Administrators can track the impact of curriculum, instruction, and intervention programs across a school or district.

Educators can see the distribution of students performing above,

below, and within grade level for each

assessment period.

The RAPID adaptive question bank includes a wide range of difficulty,

going above and below students’ grade level when needed to more

precisely estimate their current knowledge and growth.

Get the Most Out of Your DataOur experienced team of implementation managers and professional learning facilitators

helps you get the most out of your assessment data. Delivered onsite or via webinar, these

RAPID professional learning courses ensure a smooth and sustainable implementation, for

the greatest impact on student outcomes.

● Launch and Logistics: Teachers, administrators, and support staff review RAPID assessment tasks, reading and language skills measured, and best practices for implementation.

● Skills and Scores: Teachers and support staff review scores and reports using school or district data from the first administration of RAPID, and learn how to use the Instructional Groups feature with Lexia instructional resources.

● Data Analysis and Interpretation: Teachers and support staff review scores and reports from the first two administrations of RAPID, learn how to analyze and interpret the data, and discuss ways to use the data to plan and deliver classroom instruction.

● System Data Review and Planning: Administrators, coaches, and program directors review end-of-year scores and reports for their school or district; learn strategies for system-wide data analysis that support data-driven instructional decisions; and discuss professional learning resources to implement and sustain assessment best practices.

Learn best practices to connect data to instruction.

Grounded in research. Guided by mission.RAPID was developed through an ongoing partnership between the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) and Lexia, two organizations committed to literacy research and innovation.

FCRRThe Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University. FCRR explores all aspects of reading—from basic research into literacy-related skills for typically developing readers and those who struggle, to studies of effective prevention and intervention, to psychometric work on formative assessment. Research conducted at FCCR is supported by grants from various federal agencies, private foundations, and a staff of over 550 including post-doctoral fellows, senior research associates, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate students. For more information, visit www.fcrr.org.

LEXIALexia is committed to empowering literacy educators through adaptive assessment and personalized instruction. With more than 30 years of experience in reading and seven peer-reviewed studies demonstrating the efficacy of our instructional approach, we understand the building blocks of literacy. By partnering with FCRR, Lexia brings K-12 educators a computer-adaptive reading assessment that is grounded in research and guided by our mission to improve literacy for all students.

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