12 SRA FLEX LITERACY ™ IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
Assessment and Progress Monitoring
Placement Tests
Upon first login to The Digital Experience, the student takes a Lexile®-based placement
test specific to the student’s grade level.
Each test is a series of up to 35 multiple-choice questions that are scored by the
system. This assessment’s results are used to place the student in the appropriate
band and lesson sequence within The Digital Experience, based on configured
sequence start positions. The FLEXWorks system then determines and records the
initial Lexile® score and the entry point at which the student will enter.
Lexile® Assessments
In The Digital Experience, students move through a progression of lessons with
ongoing Lexile® measure assessment opportunities intended to measure students’
growth over time. Each lesson in Bands C–K features an activity that assesses
students’ Lexile® scores, just as the placement tests do.
Mastery Checks
Each skill in The Digital Experience is taught through a scaffolded sequence of
activities based on the gradual release model. At the end of each sequence,
assessment activities called Mastery Checks present multiple choice question items
without instructional prompting or feedback. Through these activities, students
demonstrate their level of mastery with each skill. In bands A and B, the teacher is
prompted to print the Mastery Checks and conduct the assessments orally. Mastery
Checks in Lesson Bands C–K are done within the online lessons.
Fluency
Lessons regularly assess students’ fluency by having them record themselves reading
aloud so that teachers can review the recording and provide a words correct per
minute (WCPM) score. Teachers are also prompted to assess the prosody of students’
recordings based on four criteria.
Critical Thinking Applications (CTAs)
Students are assigned formative assessment activities in The Print Experience that
allow the teacher to evaluate their performance on previously mastered skills in The
Digital Experience. These can be completed with The Print Experience reading
selections, thus allowing students to apply the skills they have learned in The Digital
Experience to text selections they have read in The Print Experience. FLEXWorks
provides teachers with suggestions on CTAs that correspond with student progress in
The Digital Experience. In this way, instruction in The Print Experience and The Digital
Experience are meaningfully integrated.