Individual Student Growth Reports

Today I assisted Mrs. Deep in printing and organizing the STAR Reading Growth Reports that were collected from Renaissance. Students take the STAR Reading test three times each year. One in October, one in December, and one in May. Mrs. Deep prints and sends a classroom copy of the Growth Report to the Reading teachers, and a copy to go home for the parents. These Growth Reports allow teachers to analyze the scores and identify what students are struggling readers and to identify their lexile range. This report also shows teacher what they scored at the beginning of the prior year as well as what they scored at the end. This shows how much their lexile score grew over the course of the year. Although our school does not use it, the report also shows the grade equivalent. When Mrs. Deep prints the individual scores to go home to parents, she instructs the teachers to make comments on the individual scores to further explain the lexile scores for students. Printing the Growth Reports did not take very long, but sorting them took quiet a while! The reports were printed based off of the homeroom they were in last year. Therefore, we had to sort them and organize them ourselves for each of the grades. I'm thankful for this opportunity though. I was able to prepare and help teachers and parents to further understand their student's lexile scores.