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ESGI – is a one-on-one progress monitoring platform used by Kindergarten. The teachers use the data from ESGI to differentiate instruction, inform parents and guardians, re-teach, show growth over time, and guide their instruction. ESGI focuses on different skills such as:

• Pre-Reading: Upper/Lower Case Letters, Upper/Lower Case Sounds, Sight Words (50), Concepts of Print
• Pre-Math: Number Recognition, Coin Identification, Patterning, Shapes
• Phonics: CVC Words, Final-e, Blends, Digraphs, Y as a Vowel, Vowel + r
• Other Sight Words: Other sight word lists, in groups of 30 words (Total of 240 words)
• Phonemic Awareness: Initial Sounds, Final Sounds, Blending, Rhyming

Kindergarten Readiness Checklist

DIBELS – DIBELS screeners are used in first and second grade. DIBELS ® (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of literacy skills. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures that can be used to regularly detect risk and monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills in kindergarten through eighth grade.

The measures are consistent with many of the Common Core State Standards in Reading, especially those for Foundational Skills. When implemented as recommended, DIBELS results can be used to evaluate individual student development as well as provide grade-level feedback toward validated instructional objectives. DIBELS focuses on: Letter Naming Fluency, Phonemic Segmentation Fluency, Nonsense Word Fluency, Word Reading Fluency, Oral Reading Fluency, and MAZE (reading comprehension).

DIBELS Parent Guide

IXL Screeners and Diagnostic – PGA uses IXL for ELA and Math screening and diagnostics. Students gain individualized lessons from these tests. Teachers can assign math, English language arts, and science lessons as per student recommendations from the platform, lessons from their in-class textbooks, and state assessment practice.

The IXL platform is a personalized digital learning space that covers K-12 curriculum and is used by more than 14 million students. PGA uses IXL in grades 2-8. With over 9,000 skills in math, English language arts, and science it is a very comprehensive service. By using a curriculum base, actionable analytics, real-time diagnostics, and individualized guidance, educators are given the tools to help students target specific learning goals. Thus, it can be used to support personalized learning plans. The immersive learning experience, as it's described, has so far answered more than 115 billion questions worldwide. You can even view a counter of this number on the IXL website, which is going up at nearly 1,000 questions per second.

IXL Website

IXL Parent Handout

IXL Information for Parents