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Writing the Write Way
In this blog-guide, we address the three critical and sequential steps in teaching and assessing writing. Of course, we could have been more granular and expanded the process to far more specific steps but have kept the process to three with further articulation...
Learning Progressions through Diagnostic Assessments
About a decade ago, we published a technical report on learning progressions. As we note in that report, learning progressions involve building blocks of (sub)skills that students must master, with their assemblage sequenced, and eventually with increased difficulty...
Learn about CBMSkills this November
Join us for an introductory Webinar! Click here to sign-up Monday November 13th @ noon PT / 3p ET - OR - Tuesday November 14th @ 3p PT / 4p MT The developers of the easyCBM system, Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT) at the University of Oregon, recently released a...
University of Oregon Launches Voice-Enabled Assessment to Seamlessly Understand How Early Readers Are Progressing
New partnership between Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT) at the University of Oregon and SoapBox Labs makes it easy for educators to ensure a successful reading journey for young students. EUGENE, OREGON – Today, Behavioral Research and Teaching (BRT) at the...
Oral Reading Fluency Research
Currently, teachers recognize the significance of fostering fluent reading skills for students, blending appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression in their reading. Although the link between reading fluency and comprehension is widely acknowledged, it's particularly...
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency Instruction
This report summarizes the key perspectives of the National Reading Panel (NRP)[1] report published in 2000. Although this report appeared 25 years ago, the very comprehensive and authoritative nature of it still makes itrelevant today. We emphasize this report also...
Oral Reading Fluency Practices with Automatic Speech Recognition
In this release, we describe instructional practices for the development of fluent readers. Before describing these various practices, however, it’s important to address the critical components of fluent reading and distinguish instructional practices for developing...
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Norms
The first study to be conducted establishing oral reading fluency (ORF) ‘norms’ occurred over 100 years ago. Specifically, in 1915, Starch asserted, “In every branch of instruction in the public schools we need a definite standard of attainment to be reached at the...
The Writing Process: Sloppy Copy, Outline, Draft, and Final Essay
Put the student in control of their point of view (perspective) so they can value their voice but also follow a well-developed writing process that involves a sloppy copy, an outline (organizational structure), an initial draft, and a final draft. But no author has...
Finding and Fixing Writing Prompts
Given the plethora of writing prompts that are freely available on the internet, that is the best library for prompts . A simple search of the internet with the term “writing prompts” results in hundreds of sites offering a slew of them for students of all ages...