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1. 61 62 of this User Manual Diagnostic Progress Monitoring Assessment Report This report shows the Diagnostic gray bar and Progress Monitoring blue bar skill mastery percentage for each chapter and each skill within that chapter This report also shows the overall gain green bar across the course of the program PROGRESS MONITORING 85 WT Ch 1 Ch 2 Ch 3 Ch 4 Ch 5 Ch 6 Gain This screen shows the Progress Monitoring report as displayed on the Student Summary Report To access the full report highlight the Progress Monitoring section on the Student Summary Report and then single click Cissa ROR Report Stedent Summary Report Export Owe Prresave Progress Monitoring Report Click on The data for a more Gelated report Wed Apr 15 2015 PROGRESS MONITORING SKILL LEVELS TO BE FAILED BEGI iG BASIC DVANCING TAUGHT o 265 0 0 1 1 PROGRESS MONITORING 2 This screen shows the Diagnostic Progress Monitoring Assessment Report 29 The gray bars display the Diagnostic Assessment scores for each skill the blue bars display the Progress Monitoring Assessment scores for each skill and the green bars represent the gains in scores the difference in score between the Diagnostic Assessment pre instruction pretest and the Progress Monitoring Assessment post instruction posttest Gains are displayed for each chapter and each skill within that chapter In addition an overall score for the entire prog
2. Atlantis The Bermuda Triangle Bigfoot Chupacabras Crop Circles Dragons The Fountain of Youth Jackalopes Loch Ness Superstitions Tall Tales UFOs Unicorns Urban Legends Vampires Werewolves The Yeti American Idol Bar Mitzvahs Birthday Traditions Dancing Greek Mythology Groundhog Day Horoscopes Karaoke Luaus Ninjas Running of the Bulls Star Wars Talk Like a Pirate Day Totem Poles Unusual Foods Wedding Traditions Famous Firsts Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh Christopher Columbus Dolly the Cloned Sheep Edmund Hillary Ferdinand Magellan First Person in Space Isaac Newton Johannes Gutenberg Louis Pasteur Marie Curie Neil Armstrong Susan B Anthony Steve Jobs Walt Disney The Wright Brothers Antarctica Clouds Coral Reefs Dinosaurs The Earth The Earth s Crust Earthquakes Icebergs International Date Line The Pacific Islands Recycling Time Tornadoes Trees Volcanoes Water Famous People Alfred Hitchcock Anne Frank Charles Dickens Donald Trump Dr Seuss Elvis Presley Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman J K Rowling Jackie Chan Jaime Escalante Jane Goodall Jim Henson Mark Zuckerberg Michelangelo Buonarroti Mother Teresa 63 Famous Places The Australian Outback Big Ben Burj Khalifa Easter Island The Eiffel Tower The Grand Canyon The Great Sphinx The Great Wall of China Hollywood The Leaning Tower of Pisa Machu Picchu M
3. Each assessment is discussed in more detail below Phonics Screener The phonics screener is a feature analysis assessment that asks students to spell 42 words that collectively assess the range of Reading Horizons skills taught throughout the method The students are asked to spell the word they hear to the best of their ability and then submit their answer No indications of correct or incorrect answers are provided The student is then asked to spell the next word Points are awarded for both correct whole word spelling as well as for each correctly spelled skill element within the words If no points are earned for three words in a row the test is terminated and the students receive a non passing score Note Students must miss ALL the features of the word in three consecutive words attempts in order for the test to terminate early A score of 95 percent or higher on the screener indicates mastery of basic decoding patterns and the student is not required to complete the lessons or vocabulary practice on the software Instead a library track option is engaged which requires students to spend time in the Reading Library section of the software only reading the expository reading passages and answering the accompanying comprehension questions See the Library Track section on p 47 for more information The score for the Phonics Screener is viewable in the Class Roll Report See p 21 16 Reading Library Assessment Lexile A
4. This lesson teaches how to pronounce spell and prove words that have the Special Vowel Sounds oo as in look and oo as in zoo 57 More Special Vowel Sound Skills This lesson teaches how to add suffixes to words that contain Special Vowel Sounds and how to prove multi syllabic and compound words that contain Special Vowel Sounds MOST COMMON WORDS List 12 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 12 door heard early toward love money done beauty nothing busy laugh 58 Other Suffixes This lesson teaches how to pronounce spell and prove words that contain other suffixes including tion sion tial us ous ist and est 59 Adding Suffixes to Words Ending in Y This lesson teaches how to add suffixes to words that end in y and how to add the suffixes y and ly 60 Practicing Multi Syllabic Words This lesson provides practice decoding and proving multi syllabic words 57 CHAPTER TEST 5 Chapter Test 5 is taken at this point to assess skills learned in Chapter 5 61 Decoding Exceptions This lesson teaches how to decode and prove exception words 62 Double Consonants and KE CK K and C This lesson teaches how to pronounce and prove words that contain double consonants and how to spell words that end in the k sound using ke ck k and c MOST COMMON WORDS List 13 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 13 weight brother gone buy floor view lose guess shoe woman women 63 Letter
5. Vocabulary Settings Enable ESP This setting activates English for Special Purposes ESP Vocabulary words for student practice in the Vocabulary section of the software The words are presented in eight content areas School Business Medical Hospitality Travel Construction Culinary and Law Enforcement Minimum Vocabulary Words This setting controls the number of words that the student will be required to complete in the Vocabulary section of Reading Horizons Elevate before being allowed to advance to the next lesson This is a minimum setting however the software may assign more terms based on how the student performed in the adjoining lesson The student may select the words that most interest him or her If there are fewer words in the Vocabulary section than have been assigned the student will be required to complete all of the words in that section to fulfill the assignment Deleting Student Accounts 1 Click on the Class Roll button 2 Select the student account by clicking on the student s name on the class roll 3 Click on the Delete Student button on the left hand side of the screen 4 Confirm by clicking on OK in the box that appears Groups Add Group To create and edit groups Click on the Class Roll button Click on the Groups tab on the right side of the Students tab Click on the Add Group button on the left hand side of the screen Enter the group name and whether or not the group has an
6. administrator AUNA 13 5 Click on the Save Group button This screen displays the Groups tab in the Class Roll section Add Students to a Group 14 I 2 2 Click on the Class Roll button Click on the Groups tab on the right side of the Students tab Select a group by double clicking on it or by selecting the group and then clicking on the Edit Group button on the left Select students to be in the group Student accounts may be added by dragging and dropping or by highlighting students and then clicking on the arrow buttons More than one student may be added at a time Hold down the Shift key to highlight a consecutive list of students or hold down the Control button while clicking on students who are not listed one after the other Removing a student from a group is the same process in reverse Click on the student name within a group Drag and drop it back into the original list or click on the arrow button to move it Students may be assigned to groups when adding or editing a student From the Add or Edit Student screen click on the second tab named Groups Students may belong to multiple groups If a student s name is removed from one of his or her assigned groups or if one of the groups is deleted the student will remain in any of his or her remaining group s Edit Group 1 Click on the Class Roll button 2 Click on the Groups tab on the right side of the Students t
7. 64 66 68 essons Most Common Words 100 eo ReadingHorizons This screen displays the Lesson Summary Report in the Chart view Note Most reports may be viewed using either a charts or data view Reports default to the charts view format but reports may be viewed and printed in either charts or data format by selecting the Charts or Data buttons on the bottom left corner of each reports screen Lesson Details Report Clicking on a specific lesson from the Chart or Data view displays lesson detail including scores responses time and how the student performed on every skill that was addressed in the lesson Class Roll Repert Student Summary Report Lessons Se y Revert Lesson Details Report This screen displays the Lesson Details Report in the Data View MCW Details Report This report provides detail for the MCWs lesson selected including which activities were accessed by the student and how he or she scored lass Roll Report Student Summary Repat Len MCW Details Report This screen displays the MCW Details Report in the Data view Chapter Test Details Report Chapter Tests allow students to demonstrate their proficiency with skills learned in the lessons leading up to the test This report provides detail on student proficiency in every skill tested as well as an overview of the sections of the test that the student accessed Remember clicking on the Time button a
8. Combinations That Split This lesson teaches how to pronounce and decode words that contain Blends Digraphs and Special Vowel Combinations that split in multi syllabic words 64 Spelling with SS CE or SE This lesson teaches how to spell words that end in the s sound using SS Ce and se 65 The Sounds of EU and EW This lesson teaches how to pronounce and spell words that contain eu and ew 66 Vowels That Reverse This lesson teaches how to pronounce prove and decode words that contain adjacent vowels and Special Vowel Sounds that reverse ai ia oe eo oa ao au ua ui iu 67 Other Sounds of EA and IE This lesson teaches how to pronounce and prove words that contain ea and ie 68 Synonyms Antonyms and More reference lesson This lesson teaches about synonyms antonyms homonyms homophones heteronyms and palindromes CHAPTER TEST 6 Chapter Test 6 is taken at this point to assess skills learned in Chapter 6 58 Lesson Timetable This is an approximate time for a student to complete the full lesson Times will vary depending on student level See SS YP 29 30 31 32 23 34 35 36 27 Voiced and Voiceless 5 minutes Letter Group 1 30 minutes Building Words 8 minutes vocabulary 6 minutes Nonsense Words 3 minutes vocabulary 2 minutes Letter Group 2 30 minutes vocabulary 16 minutes Sentences and Intonation 10 minutes Letter Group 3 30 minutes vocabulary 50 minutes Commas 11 m
9. The student is tested on each of the skills in the software to determine a student s baseline understanding knowledge of the skill Student s knowledge of each skill is measured by which interaction the student is able to successfully complete The interactions are of differing levels of difficulty and include the following interaction types listed in order of greatest level of difficulty to lowest level of difficulty spelling fill in the blank nonsense word recognition and real word recognition The functionality of each interaction is explained in more detail below e Interaction 1 Students are first asked to spell a word If students correctly spell the word they move to the spelling interaction for the next word If students incorrectly spell the word they move to interaction 2 e Interaction 2 Students hear a word read to them and are asked to fill in the blank using the skill in focus If students correctly spell the word they move to the spelling interaction for the next word If students incorrectly spell the word they move to interaction 3 e Interaction 3 Students hear a nonsense word read to them see three options and are asked to select the word they hear If the students correctly select the word they move to the spelling interaction for the next word If students incorrectly select the word they move to interaction 4 e Interaction 4 Students hear a real word read to them see three options and are asked t
10. This screen displays the Student Summary Report Note In order to navigate back to a preceding report click on the report name above the report title in the upper left corner Also reports can be printed by clicking the Print Save button on the top right corner of the screen and then proceeding through the standard printing or saving routine Lesson Summary Report This report is accessed by highlighting the Lessons MCW s Lessons or Chapter Tests sections of the Student Summary Report with the mouse and then single clicking Roll the mouse over each lesson completed in the bar graph to see the lesson name and the student s score This provides detail on student progress through the skill lessons Most Common Words lessons and Chapter Tests Time on task is also represented on the pie chart Further detail may be viewed in the Lesson Details Report by single clicking on data within the bar graph 23 24 ident Summary Report Lessons Summary Report Click on the data for a more detailed report Tue May 7 2013 Current Lesson Lsn 52 Name Benny Banis L Login benny 100 Instructor Site Administrator Date Enrolled Tue Jul 20 2010 a Last Login Fri May 3 2013 20 Total Lessons Time 10 40 17 hh mm ss o Time On Task 20 o 13 5 7 9 11131517 1921 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 9 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 48 48 50 5 3 35 37 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 26 28 20 32 24 36 28 40 42 44 2 54 56 58 60 62
11. c and K k and practices the slide and forming words MOST COMMON WORDS List 3 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 3 one do was were all am from his my there about out me so 11 Spelling with C and K This lesson teaches how to spell with c and k 53 12 Direct and Indirect Quotations reference lesson This lesson teaches about direct quotations versus indirect quotations and how to use quotation marks with direct quotations MOST COMMON WORDS List 4 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 4 would she very your some go when don t said good by look too little 13 Alphabetical Order This lesson reviews alphabetical order 14 Articles reference lesson This lesson teaches how to use the articles a an and the CHAPTER TEST 1 Chapter Test 1 is taken at this point to assess skills learned in Chapter 1 15 L Blends This lesson teaches Blends bl cl fl gl pl sl sliding to vowels and how to mark and read Blend words 16 Double S F and Z This lesson teaches how to spell single syllable words that end in s f Or Z 17 Special Vowel Combinations This lesson teaches the sounds and spellings of Special Vowel Combinations that include all ell oll ull ill ng ang ong ung ing and nk ank onk unk ink MOST COMMON WORDS List 5 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 5 where then every what no or know their see which any like people int
12. last 30 days Current Lesson Student s current lesson Phonics Screener Score from the Phonics Screener Assessment Lexile Measure Lexile Measure from the latest Reading Library Assessment Lexile Gain Difference between the Lexile Measure obtained from the two most recent administrations of the Reading Library Assessment positive values denote improvement Diagnostic Score Score on the Diagnostic pre instruction score Progress Score Difference between the initial Diagnostic Assessment score and the most recent Progress Monitoring Assessment results post instruction score e Note An increase in score displays the score in green font no change in score displays the score in yellow font a decrease in score displays the score in red font Last Login Date the student last used the software when Student grouping is displayed Student Count The total number of students in the selected grouping when Instructor Group or Grade groupings are displayed Student Summary Report To view a student summary report from within the Class Roll Report double click on the name of the student to be viewed The Student Summary Report shows student progress and average scores of the following e Lexile Measure e Progress Monitoring e Lessons e Most Common Words Lessons e Vocabulary e Chapter Tests e Library Time on Task and Overall Progress are also provided for reference in the Student Summary Report
13. off the Phonics Screener assessment Games Settings Available Game Days Administrators have the option to limit access to games to specific days of the week All days of the week are selected by default To remove access simply click on the desired checkbox Disable Card Match This option disables only the game Card Match Disable Monkey Run This option disables only the game Monkey Run Disable Whack A Word This option disables only the game Whack A Word Enable Games Administrators may choose to disable games entirely for certain users When games are disabled the games tab is not shown in the Dashboard General Settings Decoding Selection When enabled set to Yes this setting will require students to select the decoding marks used in the method from a legend versus having the markings provided in sequence by the software This option requires a greater understanding of the skills being taught and is not suggested for lower functioning students Students will not be required to choose the markings during the instructional portion of the lesson but rather only during the practice activities in the lessons and in the vocabulary section Enable Color Overlays Some students may benefit from seeing specific background colors when reading This setting enables a variety of background colors to be viewed with all lessons vocabulary practice and library reading This student option allows students to self select the preferred
14. read and their comprehension scores e The student s current reading level is modified every time he or she reads a new passage Additional passages are unlocked based on the student s reading level at the end of each chapter e Students have the option to reread the passage and to improve their scores by clicking on the Read Again button Each time the passage is taken again their composite scores are updated however the number of attempts the students make are counted and weighted into the score e Clicking on the Listen button allows students to listen while the passage is read to them e The Skills In Focus drop down menu allows students to choose from a list of recently learned skills to see where that skill appears in the passage they are currently reading e Students can click on any word on the review page to jump to the Vocabulary activity for that word This allows them to see how the word is decoded and to hear its definition and a context sentence Library Track If students receive a score of 95 percent or higher on the phonics screener the student is assigned to the Library Track A student who is assigned to the Library Track is not required to complete the lessons or vocabulary practice on the software Rather the computer sends the student directly to the Reading Library for reading fluency and comprehension practice 47 At the completion of the phonics screener the computer administers the Reading Horizons Read
15. screen displays the Vocab Details Report in the Data view Library Summary Report Student progress through the Library is tracked through detailed reports To view the report highlight the Library section on the Student Summary Report and then single click The Charts view on this report displays the following data the student s acquired Reading Level for each passage Speed words per minute Comprehension Time and number of Attempts The Data view displays the same information plus some additional data including passage reading level comprehension question data and scores time spent reading each passage and the date the passage was initially read lass Aot Report Student Summary Report Library Summary Report This screen shows the Library Summary Report in Charts view Library Passage Report Clicking on a particular passage displays date specific detail on each attempt to read the passage The Charts view on this report displays the following data the student s acquired Reading Level for each passage Timing total time spent reading the passage Speed words per minute Comprehension score and correct versus incorrect Responses The Data view displays the same information plus the date the passage was read or each date the passages was read if there were multiple attempts In addition the words per minute score is displayed in red font if the student read the passage at the maximum speed possible
16. student identification entered is not recognized by the system the following dialog box will appear ReadingHorizons ELEVATE LOGIN Er G ReadingHorizons 37 The student should verify his or her login with the instructor site and or account administrator and log in again 7 The screen will open up to the Dashboard Dashboard The Dashboard is designed to navigate the student step by step through the software using the GO button in the center while also granting them access to review lessons use the pronunciation tool play games and view their own progress report using the tabs along the top The first time a student logs in to the software he or she will be presented with a dashboard overview that narrates and explains the various dashboard components This overview may be viewed again by clicking on the question mark icon at the bottom of the screen Vocabulary More Digraphs PH GN 52 KN CK WR ph This screen shows the Student Dashboard which appears when a student successfully logs in The GO Button The GO button located in the center of the dashboard will help the student navigate the software To be taken to the next lesson or activity in the software the student needs only click on the GO button If a student exited the software while in the middle of a lesson or activity just click on the GO button to return to the same exit point in the lesson or activity Lessons Tab The first tim
17. tab Administrators and instructors who are assigned to more than one site will also see a window on the bottom left hand side of the screen that allows them to toggle between sites The Sites tab allows administrators to manage sites and other physical locations The Administration Portal is the home page of the Administration system Each section can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding tab along the top of the screen Note The network stand alone versions of the software do not have account administration level access only site and instructor level access This is because these versions permit the administration of only one site Administrator Options The following is a description of each of the administration options in detail beginning with the instructor level options Note All of the options and features available at the instructor level are also available to site and account administrators Class Roll Class Roll is where administrators and instructors add edit and delete student accounts and student groups It also shows a searchable list of all of the students in the account Note This list may be printed in the student reports section See Reports p 21 for printing instructions This screen catalogs every student in the account on a scrollable list See the graphic of the Add Student screen on p 8 for an explanation of each student row Adding Students and Assigning Instructors To
18. to alert teachers of one of two possibilities 1 the student is reading at the maximum words per minute possible or 2 the possibility that the student may have clicked the Stop button prematurely before finishing reading the passage passages have a capped words per minute target Reading Library Lexile Assessment Report This report shows the Lexile Measure chart as well as a data table for the three administrations of the Reading Library assessment To access this report highlight the Lexile Measure chart and single click 27 ELEVATE Administration Portal norte ka Reports Class Roti Report Student Summary Report Click on the data for a more detailed report Thu Apr 16 2015 o ASSESSMENT LEXILE MEASURE Student o eClass Avg Target This screen shows the Reading Library Assessment Report The Reading Library Assessment Report displays the following data e High low and median scores for the class white bar e Class average red line e Student average green line e Target for the student based on their grade level black line Hovering over each assessment bar will give the Lexile level and grade level equivalency of the class from the high score to the low score Clicking on the Lexile Measure chart will open a data table showing details of each of the three administrations of the Reading Library Assessment at the beginning middle and end of the program The following inf
19. 6 minutes vocabulary 10 minutes Contractions 15 minutes 59 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 23 54 55 56 oye 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 Many Jobs of Y 30 minutes vocabulary 42 minutes Decoding Skill 1 25 minutes vocabulary 119 minutes Syllable Stress and the Schwa 13 minutes vocabulary 32 minutes Last Job of Y 20 minutes vocabulary 12 minutes Decoding Skill 2 30 minutes vocabulary 146 minutes Prefixes 15 minutes vocabulary 31 minutes LE at the End of a Word 17 minutes vocabulary 30 minutes Decode Words of Any Length 17 minutes vocabulary 35 minutes Compound Words 15 minutes vocabulary 58 minutes Murmur Diphthong AR 22 minutes vocabulary 64 minutes Murmur Diphthong OR 17 minutes vocabulary 49 minutes Murmur Diphthongs ER IR and UR 30 minutes vocabulary 138 minutes Exceptions to Murmur Diphthongs 38 minutes vocabulary 176 minutes Digraphs CH SH WH TH and TH 35 minutes vocabulary 224 minutes More Digraphs PH GN KN CK WR 18 minutes vocabulary 117 minutes Digraph Blends 15 minutes vocabulary 17 minutes Digraph Words with Plural Endings 11 minutes vocabulary 12 minutes Special Vowel Sounds AU AW OU OW OI OY 30 minutes vocabulary 122 minutes Special Vowel Sounds OO and OO 15 minutes vocabulary 62 minutes More Special Vowel Sounds 18 minutes vocabulary 114 minutes Other Suffixes 25 minutes vocabulary 43 m
20. ELEVATE User Manual p ReadingHorizons es ReadingHorizons Reading Horizons Elevate User Manual Reading Horizons Elevate User Manual Published by Reading Horizons 800 333 0054 Printed in the United States of America Copyright June 2015 by Reading Horizons No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright owner ISBN 978 1 62382 131 9 Table of Contents Overview of Student Functionality Theory of Operation What to Expect Administration System Getting Started Administrator Options Class Roll Adding Students and Assigning Instructors English Language Learners ELL Advanced Settings Lesson MCW Test Settings Library Settings Deleting Student Accounts Groups Overrides Computer Administered Assessments Reports Sites Administrators Advanced Account Site Information Other Settings Email Reports License Manager Database Utilities Student Operation Getting Started Dashboard Lessons Tab Vocabulary Tab Library Tab Games Tab Pronunciation Tool Reports Tab Finishing the Program Content and Seguence Lesson Timetable Lexile Measure to Reading Level Correlation Passages by Genre ON NN BP BWDN FE h e 12 13 13 15 16 21 30 32 34 35 36 36 36 34 37 37 38 38 44 45 48 48 49 51 53 59 61 63 Over
21. Words MCW skill checks and lessons An extensive vocabulary component that provides learning support for over 12 000 words An extensive library of over 280 Lexile leveled high interest reading passages in 17 genres Silent reading assessments that present students with reading passages to test fluency and to promote successful reading experiences Pronunciation practice utilizing animation and video footage to demonstrate proper tongue placement and proper letter formation Additional features for student customization e Student progress reports e Choice of background appearance e Colored overlays for students with visual processing disorders e Choice of male or female narrator e ELL instructional aids including foreign language narrations Theory of Operation Each student begins the program by taking the computer administered assessments to first determine the student s need to learn the skills taught to establish a baseline Lexile measure and to assess their initial skill knowledge to enable prescriptive placement for each skill The software is designed to sequentially build a student s word decoding skills each lesson builds upon the skills learned in previous lessons Therefore it is required that lessons be completed in a sequential manner The only exception to this requirement is the abbreviated introductory alphabet lessons If the student scores higher than 10 on the Reading Horizons Phonics Screener it is
22. ab 3 Click on the Edit Group button to make changes to a group including assigning the group level instructor and students Delete Group 1 Click on the Class Roll button 2 Click on the Groups tab on the right side of the Students tab 3 Click on the group to be deleted 4 Click on the Delete Group button and press OK to delete the group Overrides Student Overrides can be viewed when adding or editing a student From the Add Student screen or Edit Student screen click on the third tab called Overrides Lesson 12 Direct and Indirect Quotations EE Lesson 13 Alphabetical Order Lesson 14 Articles ES Most Common Words List 1 Most Common Words List 2 Most Common Words List 3 Most Common Words List 4 Chapter1 Test Owerride Set Next Lesson This is the screen that appears when one clicks on the Overrides tab The Overrides screen provides overriding options that allow administrators to tailor student progress through the program according to each student s specific needs 1 Click on the Class Roll button 2 Double click on the student name to enter the Edit Student screen or click on the Add Student button to add a new student record 3 Click on the Overrides tab near the top right hand side of the Edit Student screen 4 Select the lesson you want to override by clicking on the empty box next to the lesson or by clicking on the lesson title The lesson will be highlighted in light blue 5 Cli
23. add students and assign instructors advance to the Add Student screen 1 Click on the Class Roll tab 2 Click on the Add Student button on the left hand side of the screen The Add Student screen allows administrators to enter logistical information about students Note A red asterisk indicates required fields Input the student s first and last names 4 Determine a student login and enter it into the login field This alphanumeric login is case sensitive and must be at least three characters long We suggest a name or student identification number that the student uses for schoolwork 5 Select the student s instructor 6 Select the student s grade Select Adult if the student is post high school 7 Select the student s site from the drop down menu 8 Change the Language Track if applicable WW 9 Student profiles can be further individualized in the Advanced Settings option within the student profile Set additional options for the student now using the Advanced Setting button or click on the Save Student button at the bottom of the screen to exit This is the Add Student screen in the Class Roll tab e Settings can be applied to multiple students by selecting the desired students under Class Roll and then selecting the Edit Multiple Students option on the left of the screen under Student Options e If you d like to place a student in a group click on the Groups tab select a group and put the s
24. ar and sentence structure Students who are not in need of the additional help should have this option set to Yes Test Passing Percentage This setting establishes a student s passing percentage or the score that a student must obtain on a Chapter Test before advancing to the next chapter Library Settings Disable Library Selecting Yes for this feature will disable the Library Students who have had the Library disabled will be unable to access reading passages Library Points Required This setting allows the administrator to determine the quantity of reading passages each student must complete in the Library section of the program Each passage has been assigned a point value based on whether the passage is at above or below the student s grade level Adjusting the number in this setting represents the number of points the student has to obtain before he she can proceed to the next chapter Library Track This setting overrides all the lessons and the Diagnostic Assessment and enables only the Reading Library in the software Passage Unlock Level This setting allows the instructor or administrator to set the grade level for the student in order to unlock reading passages in the Library Students will be given the Reading Library Assessment to determine an accurate reading level which will override administrator settings unless settings are changed after assessments are taken Passage level is set to whatever is set last
25. assumed that the student already knows the correct name sound and letter formation for each consonant and vowel These students will complete Chapter 1 quickly and will receive rapid instruction in the necessary markings from the abbreviated alphabet lessons Namely students will received instruction in the following four key concepts before moving to Chapter 2 1 The concept of a slide with its accompanying marking slide arrow 2 The concept of marking the vowels in words with an x underneath 3 The concept of marking a nonsense word with an asterisk in the front of the word 4 The C K spelling skill Random lesson selection is available only when reviewing lessons already completed or for students for whom the lessons have been overridden Students are encouraged to rerun any lesson that is unclear as they advance through the program Building on previous skills each lesson provides students with new skills and additional knowledge There is ample opportunity for students to practice and learn these skills and they must reach a specific passing percentage before they can move on to the next lesson Students will be given a Skill Check at the beginning of each Most Common Word MCW lesson to determine if the students can test out of the lesson If students pass the Skill Check with a score of 85 percent or higher they do not take the MCW lesson Rather they move on to the next lesson Most lessons have a vocabulary b
26. background colors while running lessons Lessons MCW Test Settings Abbreviated Alphabet Students who have a command of the basic alphabetic principle including letter sounds and uppercase and lowercase letter formation should have this option set to Yes This will allow them to advance through the lessons in Chapter 1 very quickly providing students with only basic instruction in the method and the specific decoding marks that they need to be able to use in future lessons Students will still have the option to progress through a review of each lesson in Chapter 1 if desired or they can choose to skip the review entirely Extensive Reference Lessons When selected this option increases the amount and depth of content presented in the Reference Lessons 11 12 Lesson Passing Percentage Students are required to pass each lesson at the specified percentage in order to advance to the next lesson Override MCW Lessons If set to Yes this setting allows students to bypass the 13 Most Common Words lessons that are part of the Reading Horizons Elevate software This is suggested for students who have proven themselves proficient with these high frequency sight words Each lesson is automatically set to skip if the student scores 85 percent or higher on the skill check at the beginning of each MCW lesson Override Reference Lesson The Reading Horizons Elevate Reference Lessons provide students with instruction in basic English gramm
27. cess Converting from Reading Horizons v5 to Reading Horizons Elevate A conversion tool is provided in the Advanced tab in the Administration Portal The conversion tool can be used only by the account administrator Once the account has been converted there is no going back To complete the conversion process the account administrator must login to the Reading Horizons v5 admin portal A pop up message will appear follow the instructions given in the message The conversion process will convert all students and administrators to the new Reading Horizons Elevate software The new version can be accessed at www rhelevate com Importing Exporting with Elevate Students may be exported from Reading Horizons Elevate in order to be imported on another system Follow these steps to export Click on the Advanced tab Click on the Export Student button Use the provided filters to find desired student accounts Select the student records to be exported by clicking on the names and using the arrow keys dragging and dropping or double clicking on the names so that they appear on the list on the right side The Select All button at the bottom of the screen will select all of the students 5 Click on the Export Selected Students button on the bottom right side of the screen 6 Select the location where you would like to export the record and click on Save AUNA Importing a record is very similar Follow the same steps lis
28. ck on the Override button toward the bottom of the screen The box by the corresponding lesson will change to black 15 6 Clear the overrides by selecting the lesson and pressing the Clear Override button at the bottom of the screen 7 You may also double click on the lesson title or adjoining box to set the override or to clear an override 8 To set a series of overrides quickly simply select the lesson up to which overrides should be set and then press the Set Next Lesson button All lessons prior to that lesson will be overridden 9 Lessons or tests that have been passed can be reset by selecting the desired lesson or test and then pressing the Reset Lesson button Note Changing any student settings after the student has begun using the program can have retroactive and negative effects on the student s progress In addition the adaptive nature of the software will modify the lesson content appropriate for each student Be very intentional when using the Overrides setting Computer Administered Assessments The Reading Horizons Elevate assessment system includes a series of four assessments that are computer administered throughout the course of the software The assessments are as follows 1 the Reading Horizons Phonics Screener 2 the Reading Horizons Reading Library Assessment Powered by the Lexile Framework for Reading 3 the Reading Horizons Diagnostic Assessment and 4 the Reading Horizons Progress Monitoring Assessment
29. cord their pronunciation Marking Words As students learn to decode words they are also taught how to mark words The marking system provides students with visual reminders of the Five Phonetic Skills and the Two Decoding Skills Within the Lessons and Vocabulary sections there are three ways to mark words 1 Students click on the marking with the left button on the mouse and while holding down the mouse button move the mark to its proper position above or below the word Releasing the mouse button sets the marking in place If the marking is not in the correct location it will turn red and the student will know to try again this will happen in all three ways to mark words He or she will click on the mark and will drag it to another location Note When the Decoding Selection option see p 11 is set students will first choose a marking from a legend before employing these marking options 2 Students click with the left mouse button one time on the marking and release the button When they move the mouse cursor the marking will follow it Another single click is required to place the marking in the desired location 3 After clicking on a marking with the left mouse button students can use the arrow keys and spacebar on the keyboard to move the markings The left and right arrows move the markings and the spacebar indicates that it is in the chosen location Lesson Review The Lesson Review screen allows students to 1 Revi
30. dress bar 2 The Reading Horizons title screen appears ReadingHorizons ELEVATE 3 Click on the Administration Login button in the upper right hand corner of the screen 4 Enter the username and password that came with the software package Note The username and password are not case sensitive They are provided when the software license is purchased The username or password may be changed at any time Refer to Edit Site Administrator p 30 and p 32 Click on the Login button 5 The screen will open to the Reading Horizons Elevate Administration screen There are five main sections in the Administration system The five sections include Sites Class Roll Reports Administrators and Advanced Access to each of these sections is dependent upon the permissions selected for administrators or instructors when they are added to the Administration system Instructor Instructor level access provides access to the Class Roll and Reports for the students whom the instructor is managing directly Instructors are also able to access a limited set of options on the Advanced tab Administration Porta Class Roll somons i e zai l a a 5 32 SESE Clicking on the Class Roll tab allows one to manage student accounts and learning groups Clicking on the Reports tab allows one to view charts and data about student progress and achievement Site Site administration access allows the administ
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32. e a student logs in to the software he or she will be presented with a lesson overview tutorial that narrates and explains the various lesson components This overview may be viewed again by clicking on the question mark icon at the bottom of the screen 38 ELEVATE x This screen shows the Lesson Manager for Reading Horizons Elevate software The student will start with Chapter 1 and will move through all of the lessons until he or she reaches the end of Chapter 6 To navigate to a different chapter click on one of the chapter buttons along the top Within each chapter and section students will find buttons representing lessons Each lesson button shows the lesson number an icon that represents the lesson content and the lesson title General e The student s current lesson is enclosed with a yellow border e Lessons that have been completed and passed are dark blue with a blue frame around the button Students may open and review lessons with dark blue buttons at any time e Lessons that have not yet been completed and to which a student has no access have buttons that are light blue or are grayed out e Lessons that have been completed but not passed have buttons that are dark blue but are outlined in red Students may not proceed to the next lesson until they retake the lesson and obtain a passing score set by the administrator e Lessons are opened sequentially as students complete and pass the preceding lessons Ad
33. en may listen to the recording in order to compare his or her own pronunciation with that of the narrator Students must click on the Circle button to record Students must click on the Square button to stop recording They must click on the Triangle button to play back their recordings ABC Click on the ABC button to see how to write a letter letter combinations will not have this option A note pad line will display and the mouse cursor will draw the currently selected letter Reports Tab Lessons Progress Section This section shows the student s current lesson and the average score for completed lessons The gray bar along the top of the section illustrates how far the student has progressed through the entire program 49 ELEVATE Lessons Total Words Decoded Vocabulary S Current Vocabulary cab 2 More aphs PH GN KN Ch f x Total Time E Total Passages Read Library TT Current Reading Level Total Time This screen shows the Report tab on the Reading Horizons Elevate software Vocabulary Progress Section This section shows the total number of vocabulary words the student has practiced the student s current vocabulary lesson the required number of vocabulary words for the current lesson and the student s average decoding score Library Progress Section This section shows the student s current reading level a chart that illustrates how many passages the student has read and a pie chart w
34. ent item banks of differing levels levels 1 4 All students begin with test items from the level 2 item bank Depending on students responses the test will either move to higher level more advanced test items levels 3 and 4 items or lower level less advanced test items level 1 and continue to adapt according to students responses Students receive a Lexile reader measure at the completion of the assessment Lexile leveled passages Lexile text measures that match the students reader measures will be unlocked in the Reading Horizons Reading Library section of the software J Reading Library Assessment ReadingHorizons Edward read many different comics He loved stories about heroes But he knew the people in the stories weren t real The real people had their names inside the cover They made the comics Some of them wrote the stories Others did the pictures Edward liked the heroes but he thought the artists were even cooler What a great job they had They told stories with their pictures Edward wanted to make pictures too He picked up his pencil Maybe one day if he worked hard he could do the same He wanted to A speak B return C draw D watch This screen shows the Reading Library Assessment 17 Diagnostic Assessment The Diagnostic Assessment is an adaptive and prescriptive assessment administered once at the beginning of the software immediately following the Reading Library Assessment
35. esson will be given Otherwise the student will receive a summary lesson as well as practice activities See p 21 for more information on the Skill Check The minimum Vocabulary requirement is 10 words Beginning If the student misspells the word misses the fill in the blank item and is unable to identify the correct nonsense word containing the skill in focus but he or she recognizes the real word the student will receive detailed skill instruction and a variety of practice activities The minimum Vocabulary requirement is 15 words Progress Monitoring Assessment The Progress Monitoring Assessments are administered at the end of each chapter immediately following the Chapter Tests These assessments consist of the same four interactions as the Diagnostic Assessment The progress monitoring assessments test skills taught within the chapters and compare student responses to student performance on parallel skills assessed on the Diagnostic Assessment Student progress is determined by comparing the mastery level demonstrated for each skill in the Diagnostic Assessment with the mastery level attained for each skill in the Progress Monitoring Assessment The mastery levels are given score values as follows Spelling 100 Mastered Fill in the Blank 75 Advancing Nonsense Word Recognition 50 Basic Real Word Recognition 25 Beginning No Skill Knowledge 0 19 These levels of mastery demonstrate the level of
36. ew their scores and compare them to the score required by the administrator 2 Review their scores for each section of the lesson including the Skill Check and Skill Summary 3 Select sections of the lesson to review or retake if failed Scores are updated only for the section which was retaken and completed 4 Retake all red failed sections of the lesson in succession Take a quick review of the lesson to refresh skills learned 6 Retake the lesson in its entirety CAUTION Once the lesson has been retaken the original score will be replaced Ci 41 Most Common Words MCW List Activities Students will have the opportunity to improve their understanding of Most Common Words through a series of 13 lessons each containing nine different activities from which students may choose Most Common Words MCW lessons are required by the program unless overridden by the administrator and must be completed sequentially by students The Most Common Words lessons are presented on the dashboard to the students as they progress through the software Most Common Words List 6 ReadingHorizons Chapter 2 down many year has around saw how been could them come put than This screen shows an example of an MCW lesson The Most Common Words lessons provide students with the opportunity to practice Most Common Words in a variety of contexts To pass each MCW lesson a student must either receive a score of 85 percent or better on t
37. f the screen once advancing to the Class Roll tab the Sites tab is not accessible without the Back to Account button along the bottom of the screen This replaces the Class Roll tab with the Sites tab 30 This screen shows the Site List screen that can be accessed only by site administrators This screen allows administrators to Add a new site Edit an existing site Delete sites Manage sites Note Two types of administrative access sites are available for a site to purchase imited which can include a maximum of five student entries and unlimited which can accommodate as many students as needed These options are discussed in detail below Adding Sites 1 2 5 While logged in as an account administrator click on the Sites tab at the top of the page Now click on the Add Site button on the left side of the screen This will require that a site be available Additional sites may need to be purchased It is required that a site name and site login be entered The rest of the site information is optional The box on the right side of the screen allows one to allocate the number of student entries allowed for the site Select Reading Horizons Elevate from the drop down box and then click on the arrow buttons to increase or decrease the entries for the site The entries represent the maximum number of students that will be allowed in the Administration Portal for the site Note It is
38. g managed All site level function and features are available 5 To return to the Account page simply click on the Back to Account button at the bottom of the page 6 If an account or site administrator has access to more than one site a drop down menu will appear at the bottom of the page while managing a site that allows the administrator to readily toggle between sites 7 Students may be moved from one site to another by selecting the site locating the student and clicking on Edit Student Now choose the new site from the site drop down menu in the middle of the page Save the student record and the student will be moved successfully Administrators Within the Administration Portal the Administrators tab allows the management of any of the administrators and instructors added to a site or account It is advisable to add instructors in order to allow them to maintain access to their students and groups 32 S ReadingHorizons Administration Portal This screen shows the Administrators tab in the Administration Portal The account administrator will have access to his or her own account as well as the accounts of all associated administrators instructors and students Site administrators have access to their own accounts often this is a school as well as all instructors and students assigned to that site Instructors have access to their own accounts as well as the account details of all of the students ass
39. gnificant data on student understanding and achievement 43 Vocabulary Tab Reading Horizons Elevate boasts a vocabulary database of over 12 000 terms to help students develop vocabulary and decoding skills simultaneously The students are presented with vocabulary activities on the dashboard as they progress through the software ELEVATE x 52 be inas PH GN KN ph No Vocabulary List There is no vocabulary for this lesson Move to the next lasson for more vocabulary This screen shows the Vocabulary tab of the Lesson Manager Student participation in the Vocabulary section is dependent on the student s performance in the lessons and options that have been set in the Administration system see Options on p 7 Students who perform poorly in the adjoining lesson will be required to complete additional vocabulary words Performance on the Diagnostic Assessment and the lesson will supersede any Administration settings Words are organized as High Frequency More Words Nonsense Words and English for Special Purposes ESP ESP terms fall into eight different categories School Business Medical Hospitality Travel Construction Culinary and Law Enforcement In the vocabulary section e Words are pronounced defined and used in sentences e Alternative endings offer additional definitions and context sentences e Students see many words illustrated with graphics e Students may pronounce and record each
40. he Skill Check presented at the beginning of each lesson or the student must complete a minimum of three activities nine activities are available with a cumulative passing score that is dictated by the instructor Students may retake failed activities The MCW lesson sections and activities are as follows Pronounce and Listen Students begin by completing a Pronounce and Listen section which allows them to click on words they would like to hear pronounced The self selected activities are as follows Read and Spell Activities Clicking Allows students to click on the MCW that they hear a narrator pronounce Spelling Students type the MCW that they hear pronounced Missing Students type the missing letters to form the MCW Reading in Context Activities Reading Students read a paragraph or short story and click on the MCW they hear 42 Searching Students have to find the hidden MCW in a string of letters Filling Students drag the MCW into a blank space to complete a sentence Rapid Recognition Activities Speed Clicking Students hear a word and click on the MCW that they hear as quickly as they can Real or Nonsense Words Students are presented with one MCW and one nonsense word They are to click on the MCW Scanning Students see an MCW and a sentence on the screen They have to scan the sentence and click on the MCW as quickly as they can MCW Review When reviewing or retaking an MCW lesson students may se
41. hich displays the difficulty of the passages the student has read 50 Finishing the Program Students who complete the curriculum will receive a certificate of completion The certificate will be placed on the Dashboard for students to view The certificate displays the student s name and reading improvement Administrators are encouraged to celebrate the successful completion of every student The time required to finish the program will depend entirely on the needs of each student Students who enter the program reading at a sixth grade level or above may finish the curriculum in as little as 20 hours and may show significant improvement in both reading and spelling skills Such students will advance quickly as they utilize the competency based features such as Skill Checks that are built into Reading Horizons Elevate allowing them to demonstrate what they know and to move on quickly Low functioning students may take 60 100 hours to complete the curriculum again depending on their levels of need and how much vocabulary and Library work has been prescribed These students will show remarkable gains as they proceed through the lessons The Library section of Reading Horizons Elevate may continue to be accessed by students after they have completed the Lessons and Vocabulary activities 51 52 Content and Sequence 1 Voiced and Voiceless reference lesson This lesson teaches the difference between voiced and voiceless sound
42. igned to them Note If using the LAN version of the software there will be only one site The account administrator and any additional site administrators will have equal access to all of the accounts on the site The online version includes a drop down menu on the bottom left hand side of the Administration Portal where the account administrator may select to view the data from any of the sites in the account while managing a site Site administrators and instructors who are assigned to more than one site automatically have access to this feature as well Adding Administrators 1 Log in as an account or site administrator This opens the Administration Portal 2 Click on the Administrators tab 3 Click on the Add Administrator button on the left hand side of the screen 4 Enter administrator details including whether the administrator is an instructor administrator site administrator or account administrator online version only Passwords for new administrators may also be set at this time 5 Select site s Note This pertains to online accounts only To add a site administrator or instructor to more than one site e Select a site from the menu on the right hand side of the screen 33 e Click on the arrow keys to move the site or drag and drop the site names e Repeat for any additional sites to which this administrator or instructor needs to have access 8 ReadingHorizons Administration Portal Iron Co
43. improvement from the initial Diagnostic assessment of the skill pretest to the post instruction Progress Monitoring Assessment posttest Note See the Diagnostic Progress Monitoring Assessment Report section on p 29 for a visual of how these scores are displayed in Reports Other Assessments Most Common Words MCWs Skill Checks MCWs Skill Checks are administered at the beginning of each MCWs Lesson to determine if students need to take the MCWs lesson If a student passes the MCWs Skill Check with 85 percent or higher he or she does not need to take the lesson A score of less than 85 percent will enable the MCWs lesson When the MCWs lessons are engaged students select at least one activity for each of the three main objectives Letter sound correspondence reading MCWs in context and rapid recognition Chapter Tests Students will be tested on all of the material learned up to that point in the program e Chapter Tests allow students to exit early and continue where they left off at a later date e The tests are designed to identify students areas of weakness and to provide opportunities for review and practice e Students must pass each Chapter Test scoring at least the minimum passing percentage However students may score below that percentage on specific skills and still pass the test Teachers can view the individual score per skill within the report of the Chapter Tests to determine if additional instruction practice i
44. ing Library Assessment to acquire a reader measure Then students go directly to the Reading Library After 20 points or however many points have been set by the administrator in the administration system settings are acquired the system recalibrates students reading levels and opens up additional passages Games Tab The games provided with Reading Horizons Elevate give students a chance to practice the skills they have learned in a fun and engaging manner The games can be disabled from the Administration Portal when editing the student options The days of the week when games are available can also be adjusted as needed When the games are disabled the Games tab is not shown on the dashboard The games are as follows Card Match In this matching game the student tries to match the written word with an illustration The difficulty increases as the student completes lessons The words used in the game are pulled from recently completed lessons Whack a Word In this spelling game the students are asked to spell words from recently completed lessons To do so they must select the correct letters from a group of detractors in the correct order Monkey Run In this decoding game the students must decode words selected from recently completed lessons The student must decode words correctly to continue playing the game Pronunciation Tool The Pronunciation tool may be accessed by students at any time and it demonstrates prope
45. inition and a context sentence Passage terms mostly proper nouns can also be pronounced for students Students click on the Continue button when they are ready to proceed Clouds ReadingHorizons Eart Challenge Words Passage Terms 4 and be clouds CONTINUE 8 This screen shows a list of challenge words from a reading passage 46 Students click on the Start button to begin reading the passage this also starts an internal timer Some passages have multiple pages this is indicated by the small page icons on the lower left of the passage Where applicable students press the Next Page icon to move on to the next page They then click on the Stop button when they have finished reading Comprehension questions are then administered The number of questions is based on the length of the passage ranging from 5 10 questions The comprehension questions are not timed Students click on an answer in order to select it Students may have the question read to them by clicking on the Sound icon on the left of each question Once all of the questions have been answered students are able to review their answers to see which ones were answered correctly and which ones were not Students then arrive at a review screen that contains the following e The students composite score combination of fluency and comprehension for the passage is displayed at the top of the screen as Score with the number of words per minute they
46. inutes Adding Suffixes to Words Ending in Y 23 minutes vocabulary 35 minutes Practicing Multi Syllabic Words 17 minutes vocabulary 280 minutes Decoding Exceptions 17 minutes vocabulary 200 minutes Double Consonants and KE CK K and C 25 minutes vocabulary 178 minutes Letter Combinations That Split 20 minutes vocabulary 100 minutes Spelling with SS CE and SE 15 minutes vocabulary 111 minutes Sounds of EU and EW 20 minutes vocabulary 23 minutes Vowels That Reverse 35 minutes vocabulary 98 minutes Other Sounds of EA and IE 28 Minutes vocabulary 121 minutes Synonyms Antonyms and More 24 minutes Most Common Words Lists 1 13 about 14 minutes each Chapter Test 1 25 minutes Chapter Test 2 25 minutes Chapter Test 3 25 minutes Chapter Test 4 25 minutes Chapter Test 5 35 minutes Chapter Test 6 30 minutes 60 Lexile Measure to Reading Level Correlation o ET os fs T os fos T o us TT 27 fa EEA A a e TTT E feo a2 e T 6 es TT 61 se ass e7 e TTT ss fo T ss es 7 zs fo TT e fm sa fo TTT se fo T ss fos e fo TTT se foss T 62 os ies TT ss ios T Passages by Genre These are the passages found in the Reading Library Animals Culture Earth Science American Buffalo Black Widow Spiders Giant Pandas Giraffes Horses and Ponies Kangaroos Koalas Komodo Dragons Lions Llamas Peafowl Penguins Pigs Piranhas Polar Bears Sharks Snakes Fact or Fiction
47. inutes Letter Group 4 35 minutes vocabulary 65 minutes Letter Group 5 30 minutes vocabulary 40 minutes Spelling with C and K 10 minutes vocabulary 17 minutes Direct and Indirect Quotations 11 minutes Alphabetical Order 15 minutes Articles 10 minutes L Blends 20 minutes vocabulary 31 minutes Double S F and Z 10 minutes vocabulary 29 minutes Special Vowel Combinations 30 minutes vocabulary 65 minutes R Blends 20 minutes vocabulary 44 minutes Plurals 18 minutes vocabulary 13 minutes Possessives 10 minutes S Blends 25 minutes vocabulary 109 minutes Two Extra Blends 12 minutes vocabulary 8 minutes Short and Long Vowels 20 minutes Phonetic Skill 1 17 minutes vocabulary 278 minutes Phonetic Skill 2 17 minutes vocabulary 156 minutes Vowel Families O and 20 minutes vocabulary 20 minutes Parts of Speech 3 minutes Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skills 1 and 2 27 minutes vocabulary 20 minutes Three Sounds of ED 18 minutes vocabulary 19 minutes Phonetic Skill 3 15 minutes vocabulary 11 minutes Phonetic Skill 4 20 minutes vocabulary 162 minutes Another Sound for C and G 27 minutes vocabulary 53 minutes Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skills 3 and 4 20 minutes vocabulary 23 minutes Sounds of GH IGH and IGHT 15 minutes vocabulary 14 minutes Phonetic Skill 5 23 minutes vocabulary 144 minutes Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skill 5 1
48. lect an activity by clicking on the Begin or Retake buttons on the right hand side of the screen This will launch only the section they have selected for review If completed their new scores will appear on the review screen Chapter Tests Six Chapter Tests are automatically administered at the end of each chapter to ensure student understanding The passing percentage for the tests is set by the administrator while adding the student record Areas of weakness are identified and additional reinforcement activities are utilized to improve skills Highly detailed reports provide graphs and other measures for teachers to monitor student progress Chapter Tests e Students will be tested on all of the material learned to that point in the program e Chapter Tests allow students to exit early and continue at a later date where they left off e The tests are designed to identify areas of weakness for students and to provide opportunity for review and practice e Atthe end of each test students are given a skill review for skills for which they did not achieve the necessary proficiency Students are presented with an opportunity to practice decoding words and a variety of other activities that reinforce the skills they were unable to master e Students can review their scores for every skill tested on the Test Results screen and can retake any failed sections or sections they would like to review e Chapter Test reports see p 25 provide si
49. majority of the features discussed are pertinent for both the online and network stand alone versions of the software Specific mention will be made when a feature applies to just one or the other The manual covers the basics of operation such as adding student records viewing student reports and administering placement assessments It will also cover advanced topics including the importing and exporting of student data Student operating procedures including running student lessons and tests will also be covered Administration System The Administration system is designed to help administrators and instructors track students progress as they advance through the program It is included with the software and can be accessed from any computer on which the program has been loaded or in the case of the online version of Reading Horizons Elevate any computer with an Internet connection Administrators can display and print reports that show student progress or that compare scores among students in the database Individual student settings and student records may be adjusted to fit specific needs All student accounts must be added to the database before they can begin using the software See Adding a Student p 7 for instructions on how to add students Getting Started Logging In 1 Double click on the Reading Horizons icon on the desktop Note Online users must open a supported Web browser and type www rhelevate com in the ad
50. ministrators may override this feature refer to Overrides p 15 e Lessons track student progress and allow students to exit at any time and continue where they left off upon reentry 39 Lessons Once a lesson is launched the student will have access to certain settings and other controls 1 bed 2 jump 3 me 4 smile 45 boat This screen shows one of the Reading Horizons Elevate lessons in progress Click on this button to control volume to select a male or female narrator and to select the color of the background Click on this button to replay the narration REPLAY 44 Click on this button to exit the lesson Students will be presented with additional navigation buttons throughout the lessons including the Continue button Read button and Listen button The use of these additional buttons is clearly stated when students encounter them The navigation buttons Listen Read and Continue The Record and Playback options appear at various locations in Reading Horizons Elevate and allow students to record themselves pronouncing words and sounds to compare their pronunciation to the narrator s Students click on 40 the red Record icon to record themselves and on the square Stop icon to end the recording Clicking on the triangle shaped Play button plays the student s recording The use of the Record option requires a microphone This is the icon that appears when students are encouraged to re
51. n a grid will appear that displays all of the students who are currently logged in or that the system tracks as having been logged in Select the student s name from the list and click on the Reset Student button on the bottom right of the grid This will reset the student record and allow the student to log in Network stand alone customers have the option to select the Check for Upgrades button which will search for possible updates to keep the network in sync with current improvements Email Reports The online version of Reading Horizons Elevate includes the ability to email Class Roll Reports to recipients added on a monthly basis To add a new recipient enter a first name last name and valid email address and then press Add Select the new name from the Report Recipients list and then select the sites for which this person should receive reports from the Available Site Reports list drag and drop the desired sites from the list on the left into the list on the right Then press Save Selected Reports Data can be filtered in order to email desired reports A recipient may be removed at any time by selecting the desired name from the recipients list and clicking the Remove button To remove a site report from a recipient select the recipient and then move the desired site name from the right column to the left column Press Save Selected Reports to save the changes License Manager network stand alone versions only This op
52. o 18 R Blends This lesson teaches r Blends br cr dr fr gr pr tr sliding to vowels and how to mark and read r Blend words 19 Plurals This lesson teaches how to spell and pronounce plural endings 20 Possessives This lesson teaches how to write and pronounce possessive endings 21 S Blends This lesson teaches two letter s Blends sc sk sl sm sn sp st sw three letter s Blends scr spr str spl squ sliding to vowels and how to mark and read s Blend words 22 Two Extra Blends This lesson teaches two extra Blends dw tw sliding to vowels and how to mark and read extra Blend words MOST COMMON WORDS List 6 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 6 down many year has around saw how been could them come put than now 54 CHAPTER TEST 2 Chapter Test 2 is taken at this point to assess skills learned in Chapter 2 23 Short and Long Vowels This lesson teaches the sounds and markings of short and long vowel sounds 24 Phonetic Skill 1 This lesson teaches how to read and prove Phonetic Skill 1 words 25 Phonetic Skill 2 This lesson teaches how to read and prove Phonetic Skill 2 words 26 Vowel Families O and This lesson teaches the sounds and markings of Vowel Families old olt ost ind ild 27 Parts of Speech reference lesson This lesson teaches about nouns adjectives verbs and adverbs 28 Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skills 1 and 2 This lesson teaches about suffixes and ho
53. o not pass the Skill Check are automatically taken back and are required to take the full lesson ReadingHorizons Chapter 1 d Skill Check 2 Lesson This screen shows the Skill Check and Lesson buttons Reports A variety of reports have been created to assist with tracking student progress through the program Click on the Reports button at the top of the page in order to view reports for students who have been entered into the program Viewing a Report 1 Click on the Reports tab at the top of the Administration screen 2 The Class Roll Report is automatically displayed upon entry into the Reports tab The following reports are available Student Reports Class Roll Report This report displays a snapshot of students progress and scores obtained in the software This report also displays average scores for the selected grouping shown at the top of the displayed list Depending on access level the Class Roll Report can be grouped by 21 22 Site Instructor Group Grade and Student To access the reports for an individual student double click anywhere on the student s row This screen displays the Class Roll Report The Class Roll Report displays the following data Total Progress Percentage of the program completed to date Last 30 Days Percentage completed in the last 30 days Total Time Ttal time spent in the program hours and minutes are shown HH MM Last 30 Days Total time spent in the
54. o select the word they hear If students correctly select the word they move to the spelling interaction for the next word If students incorrectly select the word they also move to the spelling interaction for the next word The Diagnostic Assessment results are used to determine the depth of lesson content for each skill and the minimum number of vocabulary words required in the Vocabulary section of the software for each lesson The diagnostic prescriptive lesson tracks are as follows 18 The diagnostic prescriptive lesson tracks are described as follows Mastered If the student spells the word correctly the student will be given a quick instructional overview of the lesson and the associated markings In addition students are required to complete a minimum of three words in the Vocabulary section of the software Advancing If the student misspells the word but is able to fill in the blank i e produce the specific skill within a word the student will be given a quick overview of the lesson and the associated markings as well as practice activities The minimum Vocabulary requirement is five words Basic If the student misspells the word and misses the fill in the blank item but is able to identify the correct nonsense word containing the skill the student will be given a Skill Check to provide the student an opportunity to test out of the lesson If the student does not score well on the Skill Check the full l
55. ontractions are and how to write them 38 The Many Jobs of Y This lesson teaches how to pronounce and mark the different sounds of y 39 Decoding Skill 1 This lesson teaches how to decode and prove words that have more than one syllable using Decoding Skill 1 40 Syllable Stress and the Schwa This lesson provides practice recognizing syllable stress and the schwa sound in multi syllabic words 41 The Last Job of Y This lesson teaches how to pronounce and mark the last sound of y 42 Decoding Skill 2 This lesson teaches how to decode and prove words that have more than one syllable using Decoding Skill 2 43 Prefixes This lesson teaches about prefixes and how to prove words with prefixes 44 LE at the End of a Word This lesson teaches how to pronounce and prove words that end in e 45 Decode Words of Any Length This lesson teaches how to decode and prove words of any length using Decoding Skills 1 and 2 46 Compound Words This lesson teaches about compound words and how to prove them MOST COMMON WORDS List 9 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 9 because eight these today give more such through pretty four away brown yellow round CHAPTER TEST 4 Chapter Test 4 is taken at this point to assess skills learned in Chapter 4 47 Murmur Diphthong AR This lesson teaches how to pronounce prove and add suffixes to words that contain the ar Murmur Diphthong 48 Murmur Diphthong OR This lesson teaches how to pron
56. ormation is included in the data chart e Correct Number of correct responses e Given Total number of items given e Lexile Target Target Lexile reader measure based on the student s grade level e Lexile Measure Lexile reader measure obtained on the assessment e Lexile Gain Lexile score gain from one Reading Library Assessment score to the next e Overall Gain Overall gain in Lexile measure since the first administration of the assessment e Time Time spent to complete the assessment e Date Date each assessment was taken Total time used to complete all three assessments is also listed below the Time column Note The Lexile reader measure is the level obtained from the Reading Horizons Reading Library Assessment Powered by the Lexile Framework for Reading The Lexile reader measure identifies the student s reading level A Lexile text measure is the level of a passage based on the semantic and syntactic elements of a text Students receive a Lexile reader measure at the completion of the Reading Library Assessment Then Lexile leveled passages Lexile text measures that match the students Lexile reader measures are unlocked in the Reading Library to ensure that students are reading passages appropriate for their reading level Lexile measures are assigned to a corresponding reading level for quantification purposes The Lexile Measure to Reading Level Correlation Chart can be view on pp
57. ounce prove and add suffixes to words that contain the or Murmur Diphthong 49 Murmur Diphthongs ER UR and IR This lesson teaches how to pronounce prove and add suffixes to words that contain the er ur and ir Murmur Diphthongs 56 50 Exceptions to Murmur Diphthongs This lesson teaches how to read and pronounce words that contain exceptions to Murmur Diphthongs MOST COMMON WORDS List 10 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 10 goes great says move does mother build father should answer learn eye thought together 51 Digraphs CH SH WH TH TH This lesson teaches how to pronounce and prove words with Digraphs ch sh wh th voiceless and th voiced 52 More Digraphs PH GN KN CK WR This lesson teaches how to pronounce and prove words with Digraphs oh gn kn ck and wr 53 Digraph Blends This lesson teaches how to pronounce and prove words with Digraph Blends shr thr phl phr chl chr sch 54 Digraph Words with Plural Endings This lesson teaches how to pronounce spell and prove Digraph words that have plural endings MOST COMMON WORDS List 11 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 11 both carry friend once sure color enough always young though talk 55 Special Vowel Sounds AU AW OU OW OI OY This lesson teaches how to pronounce spell and prove words that have Special Vowel Sounds au aw ou ow and oi oy 56 Special Vowel Sounds OO as in Look and OO as in Zoo
58. ount Fuji Mount Rushmore Niagara Falls The Statue of Liberty Stonehenge The Taj Mahal Nature s Mysteries Blinking Crying Echoes Fire Global Warming Hiccups How Honey is Made How Kites Fly The Human Eye The Northern Lights Rainbows Sneezing Spontaneous Combustion Static Electricity Thunderstorms Why the Sky Is Blue Yawning Health Blood Bones Caffeine Cancer Depression Diet Eating Disorders Exercise Fast Food Heart Disease MyPlate The Senses Sleep Snoring Stress Teeth Occupations Bounty Hunters Dirty Jobs Disc Jockeys Firefighters Hypnotists Improvisational Performers Lifeguards Marine Biologists Meteorologists News Anchors Paramedics Park Rangers Pawn Brokers Private Detectives Stuntmen Taxidermists The U S Coast Guard Hobbies BASE Jumping Caving Duct Tape Art Fire Walking Genealogy Geocaching Ghost Hunting Laser Tag LEGO Building Noodling Parkour Planking Pumpkin Chunking Renaissance Fair Scuba Diving Sudoku Puzzles Texting Zumba Overcoming Obstacles Agatha Christie Albert Einstein Alexander Graham Bell Ben Carson Bethany Hamilton George Washington Helen Keller Henry Ford Jay Leno John Adams Leonardo da Vinci Ludwig van Beethoven Pablo Picasso Sylvester Stallone Temple Grandin Thomas Edison Thomas Jefferson Space Black Holes Comets Constellations Gravity Halley s Comet The Hubble Telescope Th
59. r pronunciation and tongue placement The pronunciation tool can be accessed at any time by clicking on the Pronunciation tab at the top of the Dashboard There are four key features to the Pronunciation tool Diagram Video Record and ABC To activate the features a student must first select a target sound by clicking on its grapheme the letters and letter combinations from the blue text box on the left side of the screen 48 ELEVATE VOWELS I KSI ESA ESI ES ajejijoju CONSONANTS pole a flab i kl ifm ol eal r Ls tiv ww xf y 2 ar or ir er ur e sad erd er T VIDE oO fon shh BL on an kn wr urav owow ovov loo oo M This screen shows the Pronunciation tool on the Reading Horizons Elevate software Diagram Click on the Diagram tab to allow the student to view a cross section of the vocal articulators An animated visual allows the student to view proper tongue placement as well as the position and movements of the other articulators while listening to a narrator correctly pronounce the selected sound Click on the Replay button to hear the sound and to see the diagram again Video Clicking on the Video tab allows the student to view the narrator pronouncing the sound Click on the Replay button to hear the sound and to see the narrator pronounce the sound again Record If the computer is equipped with a microphone the student may record him or herself pronouncing a sound and th
60. rack from the drop down menu 2 Click on the Save Student button Advanced Settings 10 1 Click on the Advanced Settings button in the Options tab 2 Adjust or select desired settings see the following pages for available options 3 Click on the Save Student button _ Advanced Settings Assessments Settings M Disable DiagnosticAssessments No v Disable Lexile Assessment No v Disable Phonics Screener No v Games Settings Available Game Days Si TT E S 6 M M M M M M M Disable Card Match No v Disable Monkey Run Yes v Disable Whack a Word No v Enable Games Yes General Settings Decoding Selection Yes 7 Enable Color Overlays No 7 Language Track English Only 7 Lessons MCW Test Settings OK Cancel J This is the screen that appears when Advanced Settings in the Options tab of the Add Edit Student Portal is selected Advanced Settings allows administrators to change the settings for the following features Assessments Settings Disable Diagnostic Assessments Disabling this assessment will turn off the Diagnostic assessment as well as the Progress Monitoring Assessments Disable Lexile Assessment Disabling the Reading Library Assessments Lexile Assessments will deactivate all of the computer administered Reading Library assessments Disable Phonics Screener Disabling the Phonics Screener will turn
61. ram is provided at the bottom of the report upon completion of the program The percentages displayed 0 25 50 75 and 100 are based on level of mastery for each skill in relation to the Reading Horizons Diagnostic Assessment e Mastered 100 student spelled the word correctly e Advancing 75 student filled in the blank correctly e Basic 50 student identified the nonsense word e Beginning 25 student identified the real word e Failed 0 student missed all four question types Note See the Progress Monitoring Assessment section on p 19 for more explanation of these student mastery levels Account Level Reports online only At the account level the Class Roll Report will show all students within an account Use the filters provided to see specific sites instructors and or groups Sites Online customers have the option to manage multiple sites within the Administration Portal This feature requires account level login and permissions Clicking on the Sites tab at the top of the screen on the Administration Portal opens the Site List Note This screen cannot be accessed in the Instructor or Site Administrator view Once a site has been selected by single clicking on the site name and opened by clicking on the blue Manage Site button on the left side of the screen the Sites tab is replaced by the Class Roll tab Although it is possible to toggle between sites through a window on the bottom left hand side o
62. rator the same access as an instructor but also provides access to the Administrators tab where instructors and site administrators may be added Site administrators are also able to view reports for all of the students and instructors within the site they are administering J OO Clicking on the Administrators tab allows one to add and edit instructors and administrators Account online only The final access level is account administrators This portal allows account administrators to manage multiple sites schools or locations This includes allocating new sites and student entries setting up instructor site administrator and account administrator accounts and viewing data across all of the sites in the Administration portal When one logs in as an account administrator the Class Roll tab is not immediately visible Instead there is a Sites tab This tab allows for managing one s sites including adding editing and deleting sites Once a site has been selected by single clicking on the site name and opened by clicking on the blue Manage Site button on the left side of the screen the Sites tab is replaced by the Class Roll tab Although it is possible to toggle between sites through a window on the bottom left hand side of the screen once advancing to the Class Roll tab the Sites tab is not accessible without the Back to Account button along the bottom of the screen This replaces the Class Roll tab with the Sites
63. requisite that the administrator assign the number of student entries available additional entries may need to be purchased Click on the Add Application button to add the entries to the new site Click on Save Site to return to the Site List 31 Editing Sites Sites may be edited at any time by double clicking on the site name or by selecting the site and clicking on the Edit button on the left side of the screen This allows administrators to change the site information add more entries and change the site login Deleting Sites 1 Select the Sites tab at the top of the page 2 Choose the site name from the grid in the center of the page 3 Press the Delete button on the left side of the screen 4 Press OK in the confirmation window to confirm interest in deleting the site 5 When a site is deleted the student entries and site are put back in the pool of available sites and entries to be reassigned at a future date This number is viewable directly under the Site List Manage Sites Administrators have the potential to manage every aspect of each individual site through this function including adding students viewing reports and administering assessments 1 Select the Sites tab at the top of the page 2 Choose the site name from the grid in the center of the page 3 Click on the Manage Site button on the left side of the page 4 The next screen provides a view similar to a site administrator for the site that is bein
64. s 2 Letter Group 1 This lesson teaches the name sound and letter formation of the vowel A a and the consonants B b F f D d and G g and practices the slide 3 Building Words This lesson teaches how to form and mark vowels in words 4 Nonsense Words This lesson teaches about nonsense words and how to mark them 5 Letter Group 2 This lesson teaches the name sound and letter formation of the vowel E e and the consonants H h J j L L and M m and practices the slide and forming words MOST COMMON WORDS List 1 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 1 the to a and in you that of it not for I is an 6 Sentences and Intonation reference lesson This lesson teaches about sentence structure punctuation and intonation of sentences 7 Letter Group 3 This lesson teaches the name sound and letter formation of the vowel O o and the consonants N n P p R r and S s and practices the slide and forming words 8 Commas reference lesson This lesson teaches how to use commas MOST COMMON WORDS List 2 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 2 on with he at are be this but have we as they will her 9 Letter Group 4 This lesson teaches the name sound and letter formation of the vowel U u and the consonants T t Vv W w X x and Y y and practices the slide and forming words 10 Letter Group 5 This lesson teaches the name sound and letter formation of the vowel I i and the consonants Q q Z z C
65. s needed Note Chapter Tests differ from the Progress Monitoring Assessments in the following ways e Chapter Tests are longer than Progress Monitoring Assessments and assess the material specific to the lessons The Chapter Tests have to be passed with a certain passing percentage before moving on whereas the Progress Monitoring Assessments do not have a required passing percentage e The Progress Monitoring Assessments gauge growth compared to the score obtained from the original prescriptive Diagnostic Assessment and show whether students have mastered the skills relevant to that chapter Progress Monitoring Assessments do not adapt the software 20 Skill Checks The Skill Check is an assessment wherein students show evidence of skill mastery relating to the skills taught in the lesson Students who successfully pass the Skill Check are presented with a Skill Summary of the material to ensure the understanding of the sequence of skills and markings associated with that lesson The student is then allowed to advance to the Vocabulary section of the lesson or to the next lesson depending on student settings Skill Checks allow students to confirm level of mastery and to complete lessons in less time Skill Checks appear in lessons where students demonstrated their highest level of mastery was the fill in the blank interaction See p __ for more information about where Skill Checks appear in the sequence of instruction Students who d
66. ssessment The Reading Horizons Reading Library Assessment Powered by the Lexile Framework for Reading was developed in connection with MetaMetrics to determine a student s reader measure The Reading Library Assessment is an adaptive assessment that is administered three times throughout the software at the beginning to establish a benchmark and to assign a reader measure which will unlock appropriately leveled reading passages and two subsequent administrations to recalibrate a student s reader measure and to provide progress monitoring scores The first time the Reading Library Assessment is administered is immediately after the phonics screener and immediately preceding the diagnostic assessment The second administration of the Reading Library Assessment is in the middle of Chapter 4 and the final administration is activated when a student completes the Chapter 6 test and the Reading Library requirement The student is shown a brief reading passage with four options at the bottom of the screen from which to select one correct answer and three distractors The student selects an answer clicks Submit and is then given the next question No indications of correct or incorrect answers are provided If a student answers three in a row incorrectly the test will terminate and the student will be scored on what he or she has completed The assessment has 34 44 questions total There are four different versions of the test four differ
67. t with the appropriate level of passages the score weighs student fluency and comprehension using a computer algorithm 4 Students are then able to choose passages from 17 different genres ranging from a first grade to a twelfth grade reading level ARECA These icons are used to represent the 17 different genres of passages in the Reading Library Passages are divided into three colors Gold Silver and Bronze Gold passages range from a quarter of a grade to a full grade above the student s current reading level Silver passages range from a quarter of a grade below to a quarter of a grade above the student s initial reading level Bronze level passages are all passages a quarter of a grade below the student s current reading level Students are allowed to choose passages that interest them most Reading Level 12 1 l Animals Lexile Level 1071L KIEKIS 4 a This screen shows the Library tab in Lesson Manager where students can select reading passages 45 Teachers and administrators can determine how many passages students are required to read in each chapter by setting a point value in the Administration system see Library Points Required on p 12 for details Students are required to reach the number of points set by the administrator in order to advance to the next chapter Students can choose to read the passages after completing all of the lessons for each chapter or they can read the passages d
68. t the top of the report displays time spent This report provides a detailed diagnostic of student understanding Roll Repert Student Summary Repo Chapter Test Details Report This screen displays the Chapter Test Details Report in the Data view Vocabulary Summary Report This report displays student progress through the Vocabulary section of Reading Horizons Elevate To open the report highlight the Vocabulary section on the Student Summary Report and then single click Clicking on Completion in the upper right corner displays a chart with multi colored bars representing each Vocabulary section The words completed are represented with a brown bar The Responses button in the upper right corner displays errors in peach and correct 25 26 responses in brown The Data view displays both completion and responses in the same view Ms Rall Repeet Student Summary Nenori Expo oats Prewtave Vocab Summary Report 7 aoa ue Jun 30 2015 Lessons Responses nme Deve Emile Mon May 10 2079 i IN HT This screen shows the Vocabulary Summary Report in Charts view Vocabulary Details Report Clicking on an individual Vocabulary section from the Vocabulary Summary Report provides additional detail for the work that was accomplished in that specific Vocabulary section including the words that were finished and a decoding score Logs may also be viewed niteat tummary Ras Vocab Details Report This
69. ted above but instead of clicking on Export Student in step 2 click on Import and then select the button that reads Load Exported Student Data File rhx Locate the file to be loaded and import it Follow steps 5 8 under Import Export Note The online version of Reading Horizons Elevate allows administrators to move records from site to site without using the Import Export feature students should be exported only if they are moving to an entirely new account refer to Manage Sites p 32 to learn how to move student records among sites Account Site Information Site and Account Access This button provides an overview of the site or account including name address and site specific information 35 Other Settings Instructor Site Account The online version of Reading Horizons Elevate includes a setting that allows users to adjust the audio quality thus reducing the bandwidth required to stream the content over the Internet In addition the option to track students use of the software at school or home is available by checking the Track Home Use Time checkbox In order to restrict a student from logging in on more than one computer or to prevent an administrator from modifying a student record while the student is logged in or a lock has been placed on the student login When students attempt to log in an error message will occur that informs them that they are already logged in In the Other Settings optio
70. tion provides licensing information including the license number and number of licenses available to the site It also displays any available languages Administrators are able to update their licenses or add additional languages by using the options on this page 36 Database Utilities network stand alone versions only It is imperative that the data in the network and stand alone versions of Reading Horizons Elevate gets backed up on a regular basis The backup process is easy to follow 1 Click on the Database Utilities button on the Advanced tab Student Operation Once the program or site administrator has created an account for each student in the Administration system students may log in to the software Getting Started Logging In L WWJ Double click on the Reading Horizons icon on the desktop Note Online students will go to www rhelevate com It is recommended that administrators and instructors create a bookmark or desktop shortcut for students to use The Reading Horizons title screen will appear ReadingHorizons ELEVATE Click on the white Student Login box in the center of the screen The student will be prompted to enter his or her personal Student Login Online students will also enter a Site Login Click on the Log In button A message will pop up asking a student Is this you The student clicks on the Continue button to verify that the login name is correct If the
71. tudent in the group Groups are created from the Class Roll page of the Administration Portal ELEVATE se m ak bas LA 0 Pores o 1 0 eae es os te V 175 Lessee IAL YY lel Jeinas This is the Advanced Settings screen To make changes to student settings advance to the Edit Student screen 1 Click on the Class Roll tab 2 Click on the student s name and then click on the Edit Student button or double click on the student s name This is the Edit Student screen in the Class Roll tab English Language Learners ELL If you have purchased any language translation packs they will be available in the student profile under Language Track Special options are activated for non native English speakers by selecting a Language Track e Selecting a language track allows a student to listen to or read a summary of the narrated instructions in his or her native language e This option also provides a translation of the words in the Vocabulary section e The introduction videos are provided in the language selected e Selecting a language track allows a student to listen to or read a summary of all of the narrated instructions in his or her native language Note Supported languages are sold separately Contact Reading Horizons for a list of languages and prices Language Track English Only Spanish Mandarin Chinese Japanese Haitian Creol To select a language track 1 Select the language t
72. uilding exercise that allows students to build vocabulary and decoding skills For each word presented the student will have the opportunity to decode review the definition and see the word used ina context sentence The Library component of the program allows students to read leveled passages from 17 different topics Students are allowed to access the Library at the beginning of Chapter 2 The initial Reading Library Assessment unlocks the appropriate passages and constant progress monitoring ensures proper student pacing Students are able to practice their decoding skills by selecting the leveled reading passages that interest them most Student settings allow administrators to dictate how much reading must be done within each chapter in order to advance to the next chapter Upon completing each chapter the student will be tested with a Chapter Test These six tests are designed to test students knowledge of the skills they have learned Each of these tests helps administrators and instructors monitor the student understanding of specific skills being taught in each chapter If a test reveals a student is struggling with a specific skill he or she will be required to complete a refresher track for the skill and to demonstrate proficiency before the Chapter Test is passed What to Expect From This Manual This manual explains the features and functions associated with the Reading Horizons Elevate computer software Please note that the
73. unty Billings ABE Usemame klarson Jersey City Public Library Kanab HS Account Administrator Nebo SD RH Account Managers Tooele ABE This is the Add Administrator screen located in the Administrators tab Editing Administrators Administrator information may be edited at any time by double clicking on the administrator name or by selecting the name and clicking on the Edit Administrator button on the left side of the screen This allows information to be modified as necessary Deleting Administrators 1 2 Advanced Select the Administrators tab at the top of the page Choose the administrator name from the grid in the center of the page Press the Delete Administrator button on the left side of the screen Press OK in the confirmation window to confirm interest in deleting the administrator Before the action can be completed it is required that all students assigned to this administrator be reassigned It will be necessary to open each individual student record and to change the instructor to a new instructor The Advanced tab includes functions and settings that will help in the day to day management of the program The options available in the Advanced tab are dependent on the level of access instructor site account Each feature and setting will be discussed in detail and mention will be made of the level required to access it 34 Import Export Instructor Site and Account Ac
74. uring each chapter Gold passages are each worth three points silver two points and bronze one point If the students have not earned enough points to advance to the next chapter the Dashboard will prompt them to visit the Library and will show them how many points they need to move on Students can select any passage by clicking on it The passage details are then displayed on the right side of the screen including the grade level Clouds ReadingHorizons S Look at the sky Do you see clouds Clouds can be pretty Clouds can bring rain They are interesting They are made of water How are clouds made Rivers lakes and the ocean are made up of water The sun shines on the water The water gets warm Small warm drops of water turn into gas The gas floats up to the sky This water gas makes clouds Up in the sky it is cold The water drops begin to stick together They are still small so they can stay in the air When it gets colder the water gets bigger It gets heavy It falls down This is rain Clouds help our world Clouds move water from the ocean to the mountains They rain water onto plants This helps trees to grow The rain helps our food to grow Animals drink the water We need clouds stop This screen shows a reading passage from the Reading Library Students press the Read button to launch the passage They are then given a list of challenge words from the passage which they can click on to hear the def
75. view of Student Functionality The Reading Horizons Elevate software guides students through a series of computer administered assessments and 68 multi sensory lessons which teach the Five Phonetic Skills and two additional decoding skills The Reading Horizons assessment system includes the following computer administered assessments e The Reading Horizons Phonics Screener determines whether or not the student needs instruction in the Reading Horizons methodology A score of 95 percent or better determines mastery The Reading Horizons Reading Library Assessment powered by the Lexile Framework for Reading was developed in conjunction with MetaMetrics This assessment establishes a Lexile reader measure for the student to appropriately assign passages in the Reading Library The Diagnostic Assessment measures the student s initial knowledge of each skill to be taught and establishes a baseline against which progress is measured The score for each skill prescribes the depth of instruction for each lesson as well as lesson length and vocabulary requirements e The Progress Monitoring Assessments are administered at the end of each chapter These assessments measure the student s knowledge of skills taught in the previous chapter Gains are measured by comparing the progress monitoring scores with the diagnostic assessment scores The lessons are supported with Six Chapter Tests to assess student progress 13 Most Common
76. w to spell and prove Phonetic Skill 1 and Phonetic Skill 2 words that have added suffixes 29 Three Sounds of ED This lesson teaches how to pronounce the suffix ed MOST COMMON WORDS List 7 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 7 who much think only two its our here over also walk back other after 30 Phonetic Skill 3 This lesson teaches how to read and prove Phonetic Skill 3 words 31 Phonetic Skill 4 This lesson teaches how to read and prove Phonetic Skill 4 words 32 Another Sound for C and G This lesson teaches how to pronounce and mark the soft sounds of c and g 33 Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skills 3 and 4 This lesson teaches how to spell and prove Phonetic Skill 3 and Phonetic Skill 4 words that have added suffixes 34 Sounds of GH IGH and IGHT This lesson teaches the sounds of gh igh and ight 35 Phonetic Skill 5 and Adjacent Vowels This lesson teaches how to read and prove Phonetic Skill 5 words and reviews adjacent vowels ai ay ea ee oa oe Ui Ue ie 36 Adding Suffixes to Phonetic Skill 5 This lesson teaches how to spell and prove Phonetic Skill 5 words that have added suffixes MOST COMMON WORDS List 8 This lesson teaches Most Common Words List 8 boy use three before new work first may way again ever never seven want 55 CHAPTER TEST 3 Chapter Test 3 is taken at this point to assess skills learned in Chapter 3 37 Contractions reference lesson This lesson teaches what c
77. word in order to compare their pronunciation with the narrator s Note this requires the use of a microphone e Students actively mark words to become familiar with likely and unlikely sequences of letters and to learn how to break words into syllables Vocabulary markings are placed in an identical fashion to the lessons see p 41 e Foreign language support is offered when purchased and enabled by the administrator This provides word translations displayed at the top of the screen for the supported languages 44 e The Recent Words section provides a quick reference list of the most recent words completed by the student Students may also use the Search feature to find words that interest them to expand their vocabularies and to see how words are decoded Library Tab The Reading Library is a tool to help students build reading fluency and comprehension as they develop decoding skills The Library component contains more than 280 high interest low readability non fiction passages that have been leveled and Lexiled for students This feature is launched after Chapter 1 Students enter the Reading Library by 1 Clicking on the Library Tab 2 An introductory lesson provides students with an overview of Library features and functions 3 Following the introductory lesson students launch an initial assessment This assessment is designed to determine a composite fluency and comprehension score in order to present the studen

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