Your children may come home and share that they were given assessments over the past few days. Banks Road Elementary teachers in all grades K-5 are using the new mClass Reading Diagnostic 3D system. The system is being used in every elementary school in North Carolina as instructed by the North Carolina Department of Instruction. Our teachers have participated in training on administering the assessments. We will continue our training with using the system to run reports and interpreting the mClass assessment data.
What does this mean for you? You will receive mClass scores for your child. You may also receive a parent handout explaining the assessment and how you can support your child at home with foundational reading skills. It is our goal that each child be a confident and proficient reader!
Teachers will use mClass system to guide their reading instruction with your child. Teachers record observations with a running record and are able to quickly understand how students find meaning in text, and then assign reading levels and monitor progress to support comprehension at every level.
- Quickly log observations and easily identify error patterns for any level.
- Compare student progress with predictive, research-based benchmark goals.
- Translate assessment data into instructional support.
- Track progress and target instruction to individual student needs.