K-2
These bring together the ELA components into a 90 minute literacy block for 36 weeks of instruction.
What are the Sequencing Guides?
These lists can be found in the Unit Opener section of the Toolbox. Students engage in word study/morphology each week.
What are weekly spelling lists?
This grade level has three Magnetic Foundations Assessment trackers. (Bonus: 100 points if you can explain why).
What is kindergarten?
Common Core, AK, NJ, National, and NY (Next Gen).
What versions of the Sequencing Guides will be available to educators?
Texts in these tools are targeted to be one level below grade level (based on qualitative and quantitative measure of complexity) so instructional attention can be focused on scaffolding comprehension standards. This is true for both A and B.
What are Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension?
With this strategy, children are assigned books that best match their reading level. Often educators ask where these are found in Magnetic Reading Foundations.
What are leveled readers?
The tried and true Reread/Think, Talk, Write routine structures all standards practice and knowledge-building in these four sessions in every focus lesson.
What are sessions 2, 4, 5, & 6?
Students are assessed on their ability to encode (spell) the week's Target Sound Spellings, Target Words, and High Frequency Words in this part of the weekly/unit assessments.
What is the MRF Whole Class assessment?
The Sequencing Guides include guidance for this 4-5x per week in Grades K-2, and 2-3x per week in Grades 3-5.
What is Small Group Differentiation?
Ready Reading, Ready Reading-Additional Activities, Language Handbook, Interactive Tutorials, Tools for Instruction, and Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension. (We will not have Sequencing Guides for these grades.)
What ELA resources are available for grades 6-8?
Sometimes the high frequency words complement the week's phonics skill, sometimes they preview the following week's skill, and sometimes they review a phonics skill from a prior week. In this way, students are learning the highest-utility words while also getting the benefit of learning words that are grouped together by pattern.
What is our High Frequency Word (Partial Decoding) instruction rationale?
Building Background knowledge, Chunking the Text, Paired Reading and Discourse are all examples of these.
What are embedded scaffolds?
Each week, MRF focuses on one of these: accuracy, rate, phrasing, intonation & inflection, and expression. MRF includes practice and assessments for this skill for mid-Grade 1 and Grade 2.
What is fluency?
Magnetic Lesson Slides (K-5), Lesson-Aligned Spelling Tests (3-5), Building Knowledge with Vocabulary (3-5), Tools for Instruction and Interactive Tutorials (K-5), Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension (3-5), Fluency Practice & Assessment (1-2), Phonological Awareness Supplemental Instruction (Grade 2), Flex Block recommendations (K, 2, 3-5), Connect It Activities (K-2).
Which digital only resources are linked in the Sequencing Guides?
The i-Ready Central Language Arts Portfolio page is organized into these four sections aligned to the Sequencing Guides.
What are Foundational Skills, Comprehension, Writing/Vocabulary/Spelling, and Small Group Differentiation?
To support learner variability in MRF, differentiation supports are available on pages A41-A47 of the TG. These differentiated supports can be paired with instructional routines to enhance instruction and engage students in different "modes" of learning.
What are multi-modal approaches?
Cognitive science research has repeatedly shown that a student’s background knowledge or pre-existing domain-specific knowledge has a greater impact on their comprehension of a text than this.
What is their reading ability?
Students are administered a five minute 1 on 1 placement test.
How are students placed in the correct level of Phonics for Reading?
It is easy to use, honors the Science of Reading, builds knowledge, and has rich scaffolds.
What are the reasons West Ada School District chose i-Ready Language Arts Portfolio for their ELA program?
There are also some “finish the story” and “write a story” prompts where students use these, to write their own sentences and/or write short stories or story endings based on a picture prompt in grades 1 and 2 in MRF.
What are Super Words (High Frequency Words)?
This solution helps to relieve the tighter pacing found in this grade. (Must name grade and resource)
What is the Grade 2 Ready Writing Gradual Release plan?
Get students to read text aloud once or twice prior to trying to comprehend it. The idea is to resolve the words first and then to shift attention to figuring out the meaning. Studies suggest that such oral reading and rereading can raise a reader’s ability to handle a text by this many grade levels.
What are two-three grade levels? (Shanahan)
3-5 teachers often ask how to grade assessments in Magnetic Reading. Grading guidance for MR 3-5 can be found here. (Be specific)
What is the Program Implementation section of the Toolbox in the section titled Unit Assessment Answer Keys and Correlations? (We also have a grading guidance resource on i-Ready Central.)
GK-1: More time for targeted differentiation; use the fluency activities and assessment for Grade 1. G2: More time for writing instruction with Ready Writing. G3-5: More time for writing instruction with Ready Writing and offer more small-group instruction time with teacher-led instruction focused on Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension.
What should be prioritized when a district has more than 90 minutes?
LETRS training recommends connecting PA and PH instruction to word meaning. While vocabulary is not explicitly taught in MRF, this domain covers morphology (word parts that carry meaning) like prefixes, suffixes, contractions, plural -s, -es, etc.
What is the Word Analysis domain?