Are you looking for a great instructional tool to help students improve their reading comprehension? Then Read Theory is the tool for you!
What is Read Theory?
Read Theory provides passages and text-dependent questions for comprehension practice on each student’s grade level. It also provides the reasons why each answer choice is wrong, so students can reflect and improve with practice.
How does it determine a Reading Grade Level?
Read Theory adapts to student performance. This means the reading difficulty level may change after each quiz. The reading grade level may go up, down, or remain unchanged based on the score from the text-dependent questions. Here’s how it works…
▲ Grade Level moves up: score 90% or greater
► Grade Level stays unchanged: score between 70% and 90%
▼ Grade Level moves down: score below 70%
Upon clicking the “Next Passage” button, the system selects a passage and questions at random from the pool of available quizzes at the appropriate reading grade level.
The idea is to practice passages in the “sweet spot” of 70-90% correct. This indicates the passages are not so easy so as to have the student breezing through them, but not so hard has to have the student frustrated and guessing at questions because s/he is not understanding.
How is Read Theory graded?
Grades are NOT determined by grade level, but by how many points earned by that student on passages on his/her appropriate grade level:
How Can Students View their Points?
Students are able to track their own progress by, clicking “My Progress” on the top bar:
From there, they can easily see the total quizzes taken, total points, and grade level and lexile at the top. There are several charts as you scroll down:
What is Read Theory?
Read Theory provides passages and text-dependent questions for comprehension practice on each student’s grade level. It also provides the reasons why each answer choice is wrong, so students can reflect and improve with practice.
How does it determine a Reading Grade Level?
Read Theory adapts to student performance. This means the reading difficulty level may change after each quiz. The reading grade level may go up, down, or remain unchanged based on the score from the text-dependent questions. Here’s how it works…
▲ Grade Level moves up: score 90% or greater
► Grade Level stays unchanged: score between 70% and 90%
▼ Grade Level moves down: score below 70%
Upon clicking the “Next Passage” button, the system selects a passage and questions at random from the pool of available quizzes at the appropriate reading grade level.
The idea is to practice passages in the “sweet spot” of 70-90% correct. This indicates the passages are not so easy so as to have the student breezing through them, but not so hard has to have the student frustrated and guessing at questions because s/he is not understanding.
How is Read Theory graded?
Grades are NOT determined by grade level, but by how many points earned by that student on passages on his/her appropriate grade level:
- +1 point per correct question correct
- +3 points per correct bonus question
- +10 points for a passing score on a passage (70%+)
How Can Students View their Points?
Students are able to track their own progress by, clicking “My Progress” on the top bar:
From there, they can easily see the total quizzes taken, total points, and grade level and lexile at the top. There are several charts as you scroll down:
- Chart showing progression of grade level. The goal is to see an upward trend in the grade level of reading comprehension.
- Chart showing progression of Lexile. The Lexile can help find “good fit” books.
- Mastery of ELA Common Core Standards
- Quiz History Table. This includes the date the quiz was taken and how many points were earned, which tells what one needs to know for the points for the week for grading. Click on any quiz in this table to see the passage and what answers were selected, as well as the right answers and reasons for those answers.