Quiz 3

Quiz 3 Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course Instructor Due Date Quiz 3 Question 1: What is Soleil's baseline score? Tutors know too well that letter knowledge is a prerequisite for acquiring reading skills. Therefore, before learners can decode a text, they need to be fluent in recognizing sounds and letters (Wright, 2013). Recent research has critically examined this by showing that toddlers’ ability to identify letter names and sounds in their lower primary grades strongly predicts their future reading success and reading readiness. As of this understanding, efficient curriculum-based assessments, such as Letter Sound Fluency (LSF) and Letter Name Fluency (LNF), are used to track a student’s performance. In both assessment methods, teachers administer a 1-minute fluency probe to the learners. The assessment compares results to the existing norms to determine whether they are performing as expected, underperforming, or at risk of future academic problems. In relation to this, the baseline data is paramount as it helps tutors understand their learners’ comprehension before beginning the CBM intervention (Wright, 2013). The baseline score is the median value in the data collected at the start. In that case, Soleil’s scores before CBM intervention were 7 letters in week 1, 10 in week 2, and 9 in week 3. Of the three readings, the median score is 9, meaning Soleil’s baseline score is 9. This score is vital since it is obtained before any instruction or intervention is used with the student, hence acting as the starting point to measure a learner’s progress over time. Question 2: Go to the Intervention Central website. Click on LNF/LSF Directions and Norms. What is the weekly growth rate for a kindergarten student (at the 50th percentile) in LNF? Based on the instructions, I needed to visit the Intervention Central website and click on the LNF/LSF Directions and Norms. In doing so, what dawned on me was that the assessment method entails randomly assigning a student a list of upper- and lower-case letters. Once they are given the list, learners have up to 1 minute to identify as many letter sounds or letter names as possible. In this case, I focused on the Letter Name Fluency (LNF). When I delved deeper into this specific assessment, I checked for the normative data particular to LNF Directions and Norm. According to the data, the growth rate for a child in kindergarten at the...