“The idea is you would take the scores from the measures that were administered to a student at a particular point in time. And based on the scores, you would be able to kind of sort students into four different groups.”
Carrie Thomas Beck · Science of Reading: The Podcast · S11 E4: Universal screening, explained, with Carrie Thomas Beck, Ph.D.
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What was described
use a four-quadrant sort protocol to group students by their phonemic segmentation fluency and nonsense word fluency scores and then plan differentiated instruction for each quadrant
Said nearby on the same subject
“We'll administer phonemic segmentation in the fall of first grade. But then when we get to winter and spring, we're focusing more on measures like nonsense word fluency and oral reading fluency becomes a big hitter at that point in time.”
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