Understanding the Student Experience
Assessing Reading Fluency with Running Records
In addition to in-take assessments and comprehension quizzes, LevelUp includes running record assessments that teachers can assign at their discretion. Running records help assess students’ fluency and oral reading skills, and are a valuable tool in ...
Estimating Time Spent on LevelUp
Students use LevelUp at their own pace, but it can be helpful to have an idea of how long students may spend on each feature of the site: Reading a book: To estimate how long it will take a student to read a book, see "Audio Length" listed on the ...
LevelUp Land
LevelUp Land is an immersive gaming environment available to students. With every assessment, book, or quiz completed, students earn credits: completing an in-take or progress monitoring assessment: 25 credits completing a book (self-selected): 5 ...
Assessing Comprehension with Book Quizzes
LevelUp books include brief comprehension quizzes. Students are automatically given a quiz after they complete a book (unless a teacher has adjusted the "quiz frequency" setting in My Classroom). Quizzes typically contain 5 or 10 multiple-choice ...
Assessing Reading Level with In-Take and Progress Monitoring Assessments
When logging into LevelUp for the first time, students complete an in-take assessment. This establishes a starting Lexile reading measure for each learner. Each in-take assessment consists of 25 test items. Assessments are untimed, but an in-take may ...
Understanding the Student Experience
LevelUp provides teachers with powerful tools to help their students grow into full-fledged readers. To get the most out of LevelUp, it helps to first understand how students experience the platform.