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The Skills Status Report allows teachers to visually see the status of their entire class in every reading skill. You read that correctly: your entire class and all the skills (not just their grade-level skills). Skills are mapped across the report, and each student has a color-coded box for each skill (red-yellow-green), depending on their mastery level. If a teacher hovers over the skill box, there is a description of the skill and a count of the number of times a student has encountered the skill and the number of errors they’ve made. Clicking directly into the box yields a pop-up window where you can drill down into the sub-skills to view aligned resource recommendations from the following resources: IntoReading, TPRI, Saxon, or a combination of the three (depending on what your school/district has access to).

Essentially, this report takes all the data Reading Assistant gathers on students while they read and hands it directly to their teacher. It is generated every time a student reads with Reading Assistant—practice or assessment!
 

Pro Tip: You can drag and drop students into a different order. This allows teachers to see students next to their reading group or intervention team peers.
 

Understanding the Skills Status Report:

1. The report is organized around Scarborough’s Reading Rope.

2. You look at students through the lens of one thread of the Reading Rope at a time. In the screenshots above, Decoding is selected. So, the skills shown for the class are Decoding skills.

3. To change the view to a different thread, select one of the buttons on the left of the screen.

4. The report shows the Reading Assistant Learning Progression (our scope and sequence). Skill Area orders skills. 

5. Skill Areas are ordered by their typical Age of Acquisition. Skill Areas are arranged in time, on a continuum from Kindergarten to 5th Grade. The report shows you when a student “ought” to acquire skills during their journey to reading mastery. 

6. As you mouse over skills, information about that skill will appear in a flyover box, as shown in the 2nd screenshot.

7. Clicking directly into the box yields a pop-up window where you can drill down into the sub-skills to view aligned resource recommendations from one of many resources. In the third screenshot above, the resource shown is.

Understanding the Red/Yellow/Green Skill Assessment System:

Our R/Y/G color system evaluates a student's familiarity and proficiency with specific skills, taking into consideration two main factors:

1. Number of Exposures to the Skill: This refers to how often a student has encountered or practiced a particular skill.

2. Error Rate Percentage: This is determined by the observations made by Reading Assistant.

Here's how it works:

• Fewer Exposures: Students with fewer interactions with a skill are allowed a higher error percentage before being categorized as yellow or green.

• More Exposures: The more a student is exposed to a skill, the lower their allowable error percentage becomes to still qualify for the yellow or green categories.

Find the thresholds below:
 

*For 1-5 exposures:

• 1 correct and 0 incorrect -> yellow

• 1 or more incorrect and 0 correct -> red

• 2 or more correct and 0 incorrect -> green

• Any other combo of correct and incorrect -> yellow

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