The Reading Growth Tracker can provide teachers with information about students' individual reading growth over time, the percentage of students meeting reading goals, and can translate reading levels to grade-level equivalents. However, it cannot evaluate the effectiveness of teaching plans, the quality of assessments, detect errors in entered data, or prescribe how to act on the data. When using the Reading Growth Tracker, teachers must treat students' reading data with care by following directions, carefully updating information, and thoughtfully reflecting on and responding to the data, as it contains sensitive information about students' reading abilities.

1. THE READING GROWTH TRACKER CAN…

2. What can the
Reading Growth Tracker
do?

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Tell You Progress To The Goal, Overall
Overall average
growth
Percentage of
students meeting
their Student-
Specific Ambitious
Goal

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Tell You Students’ Reading Growth, Individually
Individual
students’ growth

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Tell You If Students Have Met Their Reading Goals
Individual
students’ progress
to Student-
Specific Ambitious
Goal

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Provide Grade-Level Equivalencies For Reading Levels
Reading level,
and associated
grade-level equivalency

7. The Reading Growth Tracker
can do a lot of calculations.

8. What can the
Reading Growth Tracker
NOT do?

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Can’t Tell You If Your Plan Is Any Good
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Can’t Tell You If Your Assessments Are Any Good
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Can’t Tell You If You Made A Mistake Entering Data
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Can’t Tell You Exactly How To Act On The Data
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13. Speaking of “data”…

14. The reading levels in the
Reading Growth Tracker
are more than just “data”

15. IT’S KIDS’ DATA!

16. Therefore,
in order to use the
Reading Growth Tracker,
you must…

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Treat The Data With Care!
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Follow Tracker Directions When Inputting The Data!
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Be Meticulous When Updating The Data!
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Carefully Reflect On & Thoughtfully Respond To The Data!
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21. Remember:
Those reading levels are not
just data…

22. IT’S KIDS’ DATA!