SRA FLEX LITERACY™ IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 27
“Identify the narrator’s point of view” appears exclusively in Band E, while other
Literary Analysis skills appear in other bands.
Foundational Skills
Students reading at the earliest levels will be placed into Bands A and B. Within these
lessons, students will receive intensive instruction in letter formation and naming,
phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondences, decoding, and word recognition.
As the lessons progress, students complete basic fluency activities to develop their
skill in reading connected text. Skills and concepts are explicitly modeled for students
immediately before they are asked to respond to question items, and the pace is
carefully controlled to help struggling readers feel successful. Assessment is triggered
after each set of five lessons and provided through a Mastery Check activity. The
teacher administers Mastery Checks individually with each student. Resources for the
Mastery Checks are made available through FLEXWorks as well as in Assessment
Resources.
Additional components of SRA FLEX Literacy ™ are also available to support early
literacy skills. Support for letter formation and naming, phonemic awareness, and
alphabetic order are available on FLEXWorks. A Decodable Reader is also available to
support early literacy. Selections are aligned to Bands A and B and are aligned with
Mastery Check activities.
Activity Types
The lessons in Bands C–M include many different types of activities. Five of these
activity types follow the gradual release pedagogy and are used to teach all of the
skills.
1. ModelThese activities explicitly introduce the objective of the skill. They initially
present information through entertaining animated videos, and then they model for
students how to think through and complete question items on the skill.
2. GuideThese activities provide re-teaching of the skill and additional modeling for
completing question items on the skill. They also include question items for students
to complete with assistance and prompting. The instructional host characters
provide feedback based on student responses.
3. Monitor These activities provide independent practice on the skill. They do not
include any instruction or modeling, but students do receive feedback based on
their responses. The last Monitor activity in a skill sequence is presented in a
multiple-choice “test prep” format in order to prepare students for the Mastery
Check activities.
4. Mastery CheckThese are the summative assessment activities for the skill. No
instruction, modeling, or feedback is provided.
5. ReviewThese activities follow the same format as Monitor activities. They appear in
the lesson sequence after Mastery Check activities to maintain student proficiency
with each skill.