Identify Middle School Student Reading Comprehension and Difficulties
Measuring literacy skills for middle school students and determining where they need strategic or intensive support is essential to their success in school and beyond. Acadience® Reading 7–8 is a universal screening and progress-monitoring assessment that measures the acquisition of literacy skills for seventh and eighth grade students. Acadience Reading 7–8 identifies students who may be at risk for reading difficulties, helps teachers identify areas to target instructional support, monitors at-risk students as they receive targeted instruction, and informs the effectiveness of school and district systems of instructional support.
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The 3 Gate System
Maze, Silent Reading (SR), and Oral Reading (OR).
Gated Approach: Acadience Reading 7–8 uses a gated approach to determine which students need to take each measure during each benchmarking administration. Each measure includes a triad of passages; one Science, one Social Studies, one Prose. In most cases, fewer students may take Silent Reading and Oral Reading than those students who may take Maze. Please see the table below.
Depend on Researched, Reliable, and Valid Literacy Data
Acadience Reading 7-8 is quick to administer, easy to score and record, and directly measures student reading skills that are responsive to instruction and intervention, such as:
- Reading comprehension
- Syntax and morphology
- Literal and inferential detail
- Advanced phonics
- Vocabulary
- Fluency... and more!
Dr. Roland Good
Dr. Ruth Kaminski
Dr. Mary Abbott
Expert Authorship
Acadience Learning was founded by Dr. Roland H Good III and Dr. Ruth Kaminski, the original authors of DIBELS Next, and builds on the foundation of CBM assessments you have come to know and trust. Acadience Reading 7–8 was authored by Dr. Good and Dr. Mary Abbott from Acadience Learning.
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