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System 44’s universal screening placement and progress monitoring ensures students’ special needs are met Assessment is an an an essential component of e e e e e e e e e e e e e e ective teaching and learning Meaningful assessment provides detailed feedback on on student performance that can inform instruction and enable teachers to target individual student needs The System 44 assessment system provides ongoing information about student learning and progress throughout the year for students teachers and and administrators Assessments include tools to to to screen and and place students monitor progress and and provide information that can be used to to inform inform instruction and and assess the quality of program implementation •
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The Reading Inventory® is used to to determine a a a a student’s Lexile® measure and identify students for additional screening with HMH Phonics Inventory® The Phonics Inventory assesses baseline decoding and sight word reading fluency The System 44 software assesses performance in in phonics decoding fluency comprehension spelling and writing Each 44Book workshop culminates in in a a a a a a performance-based assessment which requires students to synthesize all readings analyze information evaluate options and produce a a a a a a a a a written outcome System 44 Mid-Year and End-of-Year Tests evaluate the transfer of of newly acquired skills in phonemic awareness phonics word recognition spelling and morphology HMH Reading Counts!® Quizzes are independent reading assessments that monitor students’ comprehension of increasingly complex texts