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RIT Levels in Reading

By colepa on September 27, 2012

Our district no longer works with a specific reading level for a student. Whole group instruction is delivered at grade level. Teachers then provide small group instruction to students at their instructional level. Students who fall into the Tier 2 category recieve an extral 15-30 minutes of instruction daily at their instructional level. Teachers still need to know a student's specific reading level and they become frustrated because the district no longer uses an assessment to determine a reading level we are left to use the RIT score from MAP. My question, does anyone know of a correlation chart that would correlate a RIT score to a reading level? Let me know if you can help!

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By KarenD on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 11:46am
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I am searching for Fountas and Pinnell. Does anyone have this?

By michael_nathan on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 11:48am
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Hi Pamela, On MAP Reading Reports, NWEA offers a "Lexile Range" for each student based on their RIT score. NWEA and Metametrics (www.lexile.com) have developed an algorithm to convert RIT scores into Lexiles. NWEA expresses this, on reports, as a 150-point Lexile Range. The first 100 points of the range represent the range at which the student can read independently (with a 75% comprehension rate). The top 50 points represent the range which the student should be reading "with instruction." You can visit www.lexile.com to access grade-level equivalences. To my knowledge, this is the only reading level correlation currently in place. Best Regards, Michael Nathan NWEA Account Manager