What is Acadience Reading 7-8?
AcadienceⓇ Reading 7–8 is a universal screening and progress monitoring assessment that measures the acquisition of content-area literacy skills for seventh- and eighth-grade students. The assessment is composed of three measures that function as indicators of the reading skills that middle school students need to proficiently read content-area text. These measures are used to regularly monitor the development of literacy skills in order to provide timely instructional support and prevent the occurrence of further reading difficulties.
By design, the Acadience Reading 7–8 measures are brief, powerful indicators of content-area literacy skills that:
- are quick and efficient to administer and score;
- serve as universal screening (or benchmark assessment) and progress monitoring measures;
- identify students in need of intervention support;
- evaluate the effectiveness of interventions; and
- support the RtI/Multi-tiered model.
The measures included in Acadience Reading 7-8 are:
- Maze: A group administered measure that assesses reading comprehension through the use of three passages in which some words are replaced by a multiple-choice box that includes the original word and two distractors.
- Silent Reading: A group administered measure that assess vocabulary, sentence comprehension and inference through a text passage and multiple-choice questions.
- Oral Reading: An individually administered measure that assesses accurate and fluent reading of text and reading comprehension in which the student reads three passages, each followed by a brief recall.
For more information please reference:
- Acadience Reading 7-8 page on the Acadience Learning website
- The assessment manual located on the Acadience Learning download page.
