ScreenREADING & LANGUAGE SKILLS
IdentifyINSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS
MeasureSKILL DEVELOPMENT
Assess the skills most predictive
of reading success.
Assessment™RAPID
K–12 ADAPTIVE READING ASSESSMENT
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Prepare Students for Reading SuccessLexia RAPID Assessment™ helps teachers and educational leaders make decisions that promote reading success. This computer-adaptive reading assessment for K–12 students allows educators to strategically gather predictive, norm-referenced data up to three times a year, with immediate scoring and reports.
MAKE DATA-DRIVEN INSTRUCTIONAL DECISIONS.Every day, educators make decisions about classroom instruction. RAPID provides teachers and leaders with actionable data to improve student outcomes.
RAPID helps educators
● Predict the likelihood of students achieving end-of-year reading success
● Screen and monitor reading and language skills
● Identify instructional needs
● Reliably measure growth
Educators can connect data to instruction with
● Reports that are immediately available and simple to interpret
● Lessons developed by literacy experts that address student needs
● Guidance from Lexia implementation and professional learning experts
SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE.Students in all grades need to acquire and apply academic language to express complex ideas and engage deeply with texts. As students progress through school, the challenges of using and comprehending academic language increase. By focusing on academic language skills in assessment and instruction, RAPID helps educators make a meaningful impact on students’ overall academic achievement.
Assess academic language skills with relevant tasks, and connect data to
instruction with targeted instructional strategies and activities.
Lexia RAPID Assessment for Grades K–12
Assess K–12 Literacy SkillsMEASURE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN THREE KEY DOMAINS.RAPID provides educators with data on student skill development and growth with grade-dependent tasks in the domains of word recognition, academic language, and reading comprehension.
● For grades K–2, foundational skills are assessed with both teacher- and student-led tasks, for administration one-on-one and in small groups.
● For grades 3–12, tasks that assess complex knowledge, understanding, and application are group-administered in a classroom or computer lab.
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*Recommended Task Fall and Winter Spring All Year
Assessment™RAPID
Strategically Gather Data to Inform Instruction
Lexia RAPID Assessment for Grades K–12
SCREEN AND MONITOR READING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS.
Assess the current probability of student reading success, and make data-driven decisions
to promote student achievement.
MINIMIZE TIME SPENT ON TESTING.
RAPID uses adaptive technology to precisely assess student skill development while
minimizing time spent on testing.
● Measure the Most Predictive Skills: Rather than assessing a multitude of skills, RAPID sensitively and reliably measures the skills most predictive of reading success. That means educators can focus time and effort where they are most likely to make an impact.
● Target Tasks to Each Student’s Level: By adapting assessment tasks to each student’s specific skill level, RAPID reduces time spent on testing, as well as minimizes student boredom and frustration.
● Access Data Immediately: Educators can access results immediately online, without spending valuable time on paper scoring or data entry.
The Reading Success Probability score helps determine the overall risk for each student so that teachers can make effective instructional decisions.
Administrators can view likelihood of success at the class, school, and district level, which helps them set priorities and allocate resources to support student gains.
The Reading Success Probability score indicates the likelihood
of success on a gold-standard, national outcome measure, based
on student performance in the most recent assessment period.
Students are grouped by instructional need, helping teachers focus instruction on the skill
domains that will support student success.
Strategically Gather Data to Inform InstructionIDENTIFY INSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS.
Profile student strengths and weaknesses, group students with similar instructional needs,
and prioritize instruction.
The Diagnostic Profile provides teachers with an instructional focus for each student based on strengths and weaknesses in key skills.
Building and district leaders can use school- and district-wide profiles to assess the need for curriculum review or additional professional development for teachers and staff.
RAPID places students with similar profiles into Instructional Groups and provides teachers with a resource library of instructional connections, developed by literacy experts, to address identified skills one-on-one or in small-group instruction.
Diagnostic Profiles are available at the student, class, school, and district level.
Student Diagnostic Profile—Second Grade
Lexia® Connections address literacy skills through reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities that can be used across the curriculum.
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Common Latin PrefixesLatin Prefix Sample Words
ab- = away from abduct, absentad- = toward
advise, admitcon- = together conduct, contractde- = down, away detract, destructdis- = not or apart disagree, disobey; disrupt, distantex-/e- = out/away, from export, expelin- = not or in
incorrect, inactive; income, intakemis- = wrong
mislead, misprintnon- = not
nonsense, nonstopob- = against object, obstructpre- = before predict, prescribepro- = forward produce, propelre- = again, back replay, returnsub- = under/below subtract, subjectun- = not
unkind, unwise
Latin Prefixes–continued
Curriculum Connection
Copy a page from a
math, science, history,
or geography text.
Challenge students to
locate as many learned
prefixes as they can on
the page. Then, spend
time discussing findings
as a class.
Structural Analysis
Skill Sequence
• Simple Suffixes
• LATIN PREFIXES
• Latin Suffixes
• Spelling Rules:
Doubling & Drop E
• Prefix Meanings
• Root Meanings
• Prefix Change Rules
• Spelling Rules:
Change y to i
• Greek Combining Forms
• Special Accent Rules
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Latin Prefixes
Latin prefixes are word parts that come at the beginning of the word
and change the meaning, and occasionally the form, of a base word.
The ability to recognize Latin prefixes helps students understand
the structure and meaning of words (prefix, root/base word, suffix),
allows students to develop word identification strategies for
multisyllabic words, and serves as a foundation for understanding
the most common spelling rules.
Classroom Ideas
As necessary, teach or review the definition of a prefix. Teach
students to break down words with prefixes by displaying example
words (e.g., return) and then having students circle the prefix,
underline the rest of the word and read it, and then read the whole
word.
Say words that contain prefixes aloud. Ask students to repeat the
words first; then, have them say or write only the prefix that is
contained in the word. Provide visual references (such as prefix
words cards) as necessary.
Write a number of words that include Latin prefixes on cards (or
dictate them to students). Have students sort the words by prefix
and then read each word. If necessary, provide a limited number of
prefixes at a time.
Write a newly learned prefix (e.g., pre-) in the middle of a circle.
Ask students to generate as many words as they can that contain
the prefix (e.g., preview, preheat); add those words to the outside
of the circle. Then, assign students to their own prefixes and have
them repeat the exercise. Provide resource materials as needed.
Provide students with word cards that contain a variety of prefixes
(e.g, in-, mis-) and base words (e.g, take, lead). Challenge them to
combine the prefixes and base words to create as many real words
as possible. Ask students to record the words as they create them.
LEXIA® CONNECTIONS
RELIABLY MEASURE GROWTH.
Track student progress—through
the school year and across multiple
years—by focusing on the skills most
predictive of reading success.
Teachers can track whether students have improved in key skill areas and determine if current instruction is having the desired impact.
Administrators can track the impact of curriculum, instruction, and intervention programs across a school or district.
Instructional leaders can view growth across the school or district.
Precisely estimate students‘ current knowledge and growth with a sensitive
scale for each task.
Student Skill Development Report—by Skill
Get the Most Out of Your DataOur experienced implementation managers and professional learning facilitators help you
get the most out of your assessment data. Delivered onsite or via webinar, our professional
learning courses ensure a smooth and sustainable implementation, for the greatest impact
on student outcomes.
Our experts help teachers, administrators, and support staff ● Analyze and interpret student, class, school, and district data
● Connect data to classroom instruction
● Use Lexia instructional resources
● Build assessment literacy
● Implement and sustain assessment best practices
Apply best practices to connect data to instruction.
Grounded in research. Guided by mission.RAPID was developed through an ongoing partnership between the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) and Lexia, two organizations committed to literacy research and innovation.
FCRRThe Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University. FCRR explores all aspects of reading—from basic research into literacy-related skills for typically developing readers and those who struggle, to studies of effective prevention and intervention, to psychometric work on formative assessment. Research conducted at FCRR is supported by grants from various federal agencies, private foundations, and a staff of over 550 including post-doctoral fellows, senior research associates, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate students. For more information, visit www.fcrr.org.
LEXIALexia is committed to empowering literacy educators through adaptive assessment and personalized instruction. With more than 30 years of experience in reading pedagogy and research and seven peer-reviewed studies demonstrating the efficacy of our instructional approach, we understand the building blocks of literacy. By partnering with FCRR, Lexia brings K–12 educators a computer-adaptive reading assessment that is grounded in research and guided by our mission to improve literacy for all students.
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