ReadTheory is an online reading comprehension assessment tool for the students. It will allow the students to read narrative, informative, or informational literary passages and answer corresponding comprehension questions, while tracking performance of students and reporting progress to the teachers. For your information, it is free for all users.
ReadTheory Answers Key
Here is answers key of Reading Comprehension 1:
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The teachers start using ReadTheory by visiting the website and making an account. After they have made a teacher account, they make a class and follow prompts to make accounts for each of their students by submitting in their name, email, a username, and also a password.
The students begin using ReadTheory by logging in to their student accounts. Then, they are asked to take a pretest which consists of reading ReadTheory passage examples and answering reading comprehension questions. ReadTheory will assess a student’s reading level and present them with reading content based off of this performance. Afterwards, the students continually use ReadTheory by logging on and reading literature passages and answering corresponding reading comprehension questions. For correct answers, the students are able to get points which they are able to view in their ‘earn points’ page on their menu bar.
ReadTheory will track student progress on the assessments and report it back to the teachers and the students. From the progress page on their menu bar, the teachers are able to view ReadTheory generated graphics which track student progress, performance on the questions, and aggregate class performance statistics.
Getting Started
For student:
- The students are able to navigate to ReadTheory.org in their internet browser.
- After that, the students sign up.
- Then, the students log in.
- Next, the students are able to go to the “My Teachers” page.
- The students have to enter the teacher’s email address, the one their teacher uses to log in to ReadTheory- in the space provided.
- Lastly, the students are able to click the “Send Invitation” button.
For Teacher:
- At the first step, the teacher must log in.
- Then, the teacher reviews pending student invitations on the My Students page.
- The next step, the teacher clicks the “Accept” button beside each invitation.
- Lastly, the teacher goes to the Progress Reports page, and begins to track progress.
Warning: The progress will not show up until a student has already taken the pretest and completed at least one program quiz.
How to Choose a Reading Level for My Students?
As a teacher, you have to know that on ReadTheory, reading levels are never set manually. All students logging in for the first time need to take our placement pretest that starts on a third-grade level by default. If the material is too difficult, immediately the pretest will adjust to show first and second grade material instead. Similarly, if the material is too easy, progressively the pretest will move up to grades four, five, and beyond.
All students are going to be moving within a range of levels at all times so that they are going to be continually challenged. This will provide for maximum differentiation and individualized learning. ReadTheory’s site is fully interactive and responsive, so the students are only going to see content based on their previous performance.
How to Choose Which Passages My Students Will Read?
Also, on ReadTheory, individual passages are never set manually. After ReadTheory’s placement pretest, the students are going to be placed at a level, and their program will draw a passage at random from within that level for the student.
When a student passes a full quiz (scores between 70 percent and 89 percent), then the student will remain at the same level. If the student fails the quiz (scores 69 percent or less), then the quiz is replaced into the pool of available quizzes, and the student’s level will decrease. If the student performs greatly on the quiz (scores 90 percent or more), then the student’s level will increase. In each case, a new quiz is going to be randomly drawn from the appropriate pool of available quizzes at the student’s level.
How to Measure Progress on ReadTheory?
Usually, the teachers use ReadTheory in a few different ways. Because students’ needs and goals can be varied and individualized, we think that the teachers are the best judges of how to introduce ReadTheory into their classes.
Here are some suggestions to choose or modify as you want:
- As a teacher, you are able to use ReadTheory’s placement pretest as a benchmark to set improvement goals on an individual basis. ReadTheory will make it easy to track your students’ grade progress over time. Also, it enables you to see the Lexile® text measures of the passages read by your students. Warning: Lexile® measures do not denote the student’s level of comprehension of the passages or the Lexile® measure of the student.
- You are able to set a benchmark number of quizzes which you expect the students to pass every week or month. You may discover it helpful to count only quizzes within a particular range of grade levels, rather than accepting all quizzes towards this goal.
- Please log into ReadTheory as an activity in the class for a certain amount of time per week, probably as a participation grade. Keep in mind that the amount of time and effort required to complete a quiz depends on many factors, including each student’s reading abilities, the length and difficulty of the passages presented, and the number of the questions accompanying each passage.
Using only raw quiz scores to influence students’ overall grades is the only approach we do not recommend. We do not give averages of the students’ correct answers on all quizzes. This will mix percentages from across several grade levels. For example, if a student scores 90 percent on a grade 5 quiz, then she/he will be leveled up and presented with a grade 6 quiz. On that grade 6 quiz, she may only score a 70 percent. This yields an average score of 80 percent. However, this does not reflect the increased difficulty of the higher-level quiz.
