Comprehension Websites

Looking for new ways to teach and monitor comprehension...look no further!

easycbm.com   

Curriculum-Based Measurement
Solutions for Every Tier

easyCBM™ is an enhanced district assessment system designed by researchers at the University of Oregon as an integral part of an RTI (Response to Intervention) model. Distributed exclusively by Riverside, it provides school districts, administrators, and teachers with a full suite of assessment and reporting options, offering a complete solution at every tier of the RTI process.

Enchanced features include:

• Full set of Benchmarking and Progress Monitoring assessments, Reading and Math, Grades K through 8.
• Sync teachers accounts, student records, and class lists from your Student Information System. Easily maintain student records from year to year.
• Multiple levels of account access for teachers, principals, district personnel, and administrators.
• Various forms of data entry including online student tests, streamlined total score entry of paper-pencil tests, and other options.
• Reports by teacher, building, grade-level, or district with customizable percentiles and color-codings, including exports for your Data Warehouse.
• Admin panel with various system-level settings and configurations, user account management, and student record maintenance.
• Secure SSL website connections with 256-bit data encryption (same level used by banks), and optional password-protection of online student tests.

readtheory.org

Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels. Using custom web application software and carefully crafted and tested content created by our team, we provide students with a dynamic reading experience that adapts to their individual ability levels and presents them with a seemingly endless array of skill building exercises. What is more, as students continue to use the site and see their scores gradually improve, the system adapts to match their progress, and the materials presented get incrementally more advanced. Our quizzes span the full range, beginning with elementary school reading and ending with the most demanding SAT, ACT, and GRE level reading comprehension and verbal reasoning questions.

http://reading.ecb.org/

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.