Data Tool Selection Guidance

Learn about TPRI, the highly reliable assessment system for students’ early reading skills. An introductory webinar recording can be found on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled Assessments & Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data:

• TPRI and Tejas LEE Orientation for Teachers

Questions after watching the recorded webinar? Contact the Children’s Learning Institute Help Desk by submitting a HELP ticket on CLI Engage.

Learn about Tejas LEE, the highly reliable assessment system for students’ early reading skills. An introductory webinar recording can be found on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled Assessments & Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data:

• TPRI and Tejas LEE Orientation for Teachers

Questions after watching the recorded webinar? Contact the Children’s Learning Institute Help Desk by submitting a HELP ticket on CLI Engage.

Check the website for on-going support

• Webinar: Remote Universal Screening with FastBridge
• Webinar: Remote Progress Monitoring with FastBridge
• FastBridge Webinar Series Part 1- Preventing COVID Slide This Spring
• FastBridge Webinar Series Part 2- Preventing COVID Slide with Back to School Readiness
• Information for Family Members who Assist Students with Teacher-Based FastBridge Assessments
• Information for Family Members who Assist Students with Computer-Based FastBridge Assessments

TPRI™ is an early reading assessment designed to identify the reading and comprehension development of students in grades 1 and 2. At all grade levels, TPRI contains both a Screening and an Inventory Section.

Screening Section:

• Letter Sound (G1)
• Word Reading (G1)
• Blending Phonemes (G1)
• Word Reading (G1-G2)
• Spelling (G2)

Grade 1 Inventory Section:

• Blending Word Parts
• Blending Phonemes
• Deleting Initial Sounds
• Deleting Final Sounds
• Initial Consonant Substitution
• Final Consonant Substitution
• Middle Vowel Substitution
• Blends in Final Position
• Word Reading (Accuracy, Fluency, and Comprehension)

Grade 2 Inventory Section:

• Spelling
• Word Reading (Accuracy, Fluency, and Comprehension)

El Inventario de Lectura en Español de Tejas (Tejas LEE) is an assessment tool that measures student's reading, comprehension and reading related skills in Spanish of students in grades 1 and 2, and can be used to fulfill the requirements of the Texas Education Code §28.006.

1st Grade Tejas LEE covers:

• Conocimiento fonológica (Phonological Awareness)
• Identificación del sonido inicial (Initial Sound Identification)
• Identificación del sonido final (Final Sound Identification)
• Unión de los sonidos (Blending Phonemes into Words)
• Segmentación de los sonidos (Segmenting Words into Phonemes)
• Omisión del sonido inicial (initial Sound Omission)
• Omisión del sonido final (Final Sound Omission)
• Conocimiento de los grafofonemas (Graphophonemic Knowledge)
• Reconocimiento de las palabras (Decoding/Single Word Reading)
• Exactitud de Lectura (Reading accuracy)
• Proporción de la fluidez de la lectura (Reading fluency)
• Dictado (Spelling – middle and end of year only)
• Comprensión de la lectura (Reading comprehension)

2nd Grade Tejas LEE covers:

• Conocimiento de los grafofonemas (Graphophonemic Knowledge)
• Reconocimiento de las palabras (Decoding/Single Word Reading)
• Exactitud de Lectura (Reading accuracy)
• Proporción de la fluidez de la lectura (Reading fluency)
• Dictado (Spelling)
• Acentuación (Accenting)
• Comprensión de la lectura (Reading comprehension)

The instrument allows teachers to observe and record student performance in areas important to the development of Spanish reading and reading comprehension. The primary purpose of the Tejas LEE is to provide teachers an opportunity to acquire data to help match reading instruction with specific student needs. This additional information can be used to assist teachers and administrators in assembling educational resources and in planning the most effective instruction possible for students.

mCLASS Texas Edition provides efficient one-minute DIBELS 8th Edition® and IDEL (Spanish) measures, with additional measures that fulfill TEA’s Language and Literacy requirements.

1st Grade mCLASS covers:

• Letter Naming Fluency / Fluidez en Nombrar
• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency / Fluidez en la Segmentación de Fonemas
• Nonsense Word Fluency / Fluidez en las Palabras sin Sentido
• Word Reading Fluency (Real words, read out of context)
• Oral Reading Fluency
• Vocabulary (English and Spanish)
• Spelling (English and Spanish)Listening Comprehension (English and Spanish)

2nd Grade mCLASS covers:

• Nonsense Word Fluency / Fluidez en las Palabras sin Sentido
• Word Reading Fluency (Real words, read out of context)
• Oral Reading Fluency / Fluidez En la Lectura Oral
• Basic Comprehension
• Vocabulary (English and Spanish)
• Spelling (English and Spanish)Listening Comprehension (English and Spanish)

Measures are designed to:

• Provide a consistent skills progression coverage for Grades K-6
• Show apples-to-apples comparisons and growth across grades
• Surface diagnostic data for all students - whether at-risk or at/above benchmark

FastBridge progress monitoring allows you to frequently check in on Tier 2 and 3 students in your MTSS program. Use progress monitoring to measure their rate of improvement and determine whether targeted instruction and interventions should be maintained, modified, or intensified to close achievement gaps, faster. All of the progress monitoring measures utilize Curriculum-Based Measures (CBM), ensuring that they are:

• Brief and won’t take away from valuable instruction
• Simple and easy to interpret and apply
• Sensitive to growth to show the effects of interventions over short periods
• Valid, assessing only the specific skill areas that match students’ needs
• Reliable and highly predictive of future outcomes

FastBridge recommends weekly progress monitoring in earlyReading, and all earlyReading tests have progress monitoring forms, with the exception of Concepts of Print, Word Rhyming, Sentence Reading, and Oral Repetition. For students in grade 2, we recommend CBMreading.

The FastBridge system identifies specific skill gaps and directs the teacher to the appropriate progress monitoring measure. The following:

• Concepts of print
• Onset sounds
• Letter names and sounds
• Word rhyming, blending, segmenting
• Sight words, decodable words, and nonsense words
• Sentence reading fluency
• Oral repetition and oral reading fluency

FAST Projection is a new, patent-pending algorithm based on extensive research from the University of Minnesota. It is the only progress monitoring tool that gives teachers accurate data with just 6 data points. That’s half the amount as other leading solutions, leading to faster intervention!

Find out all you need to know about CLI Engage Onboarding on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled Getting Started with CLI Engage.

• Welcome to CLI Engage for New LEAs
• Welcome Back to CLI Engage
• Uploading Data into CLI Engage

New to CLI Engage? Watch this quick Take a Tour video to learn about the tools and resources on CLI Engage, and where to find them.

CLI Engage online learning & professional development features self-instructional training and facilitation guides.

TPRI Resources:

• TPRI Training
• TPRI User Guide
• TPRI Scoring Resources
• TPRI Branching Rules
• Family-Friendly Descriptions of TPRI Assessment Measures
• TPRI - TEKS Alignment
• Understanding Your Child’s TPRI Results

Find administration and instructional support webinars on the Webinars and Presentations page:

• TPRI and Tejas LEE Orientation for Teachers
• A Closer Look at Analyzing TPRI Student Progress Monitoring Data (coming soon)
• Small-Group Instructional Planning Using Targeted Activities for Grades 1 & 2

Family Engagement webinars to support learning at home and at school can also be found on the Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled Engaging Families:

• Remote Instruction and Learning, and Team-Teaching with Families
• Teacher Resources to Support Home Learning
• Family Engagement Resources on CLI Engage
• Partnering with Families
• Promoting Two-Way Conversations with Families Remotely
• Remotely Incorporating Family Engagement to Support Children's Development

Support families in understanding their child’s progress:

• Understanding Your Child’s TPRI Results
• Generating Student Reports for Parents

Other family engagement resources can be found on CLI’s Family Engagement Resources Webpage.

Visit our website to view our training calendar and previously recorded webinars

• More than 70 CPE hours of core content training
• Ongoing implementation webinars and research-based outreach for teachers and principals

CLI Engage onboarding webinar series available on the Webinars and Presentations page:

• Welcome to CLI Engage for New LEAs
• Welcome Back to CLI Engage
• Uploading Data into CLI Engage

New to CLI Engage? Watch this quick Take a Tour video to learn about the tools and resources on CLI Engage, and where to find them.

CLI Engage online learning & professional development features self-instructional training and facilitation guides.

Tejas LEE Resources:

• Tejas LEE Training
• Tejas LEE User Guide
• Tejas LEE Scoring Resources
• Family-Friendly Descriptions of Assessment Measures
• TPRI & Tejas LEE- TEKS Alignment
• Understanding your Child’s Results

Find administration and instructional support webinars on the Webinars and Presentations page:

• TPRI and Tejas LEE Orientation for Teachers
• A Closer Look at Analyzing Tejas LEE Student Progress Monitoring Data (coming soon)
• Small-Group Instructional Planning Using Targeted Activities for Grades 1 & 2

Family Engagement webinars to support learning at home and at school can also be found on the Webinars and Presentations page:

• Remote Instruction and Learning, and Team-Teaching with Families
• Teacher Resources to Support Home Learning
• Family Engagement Resources on CLI Engage
• Partnering with Families
• Promoting Two-Way Conversations with Families Remotely
• Remotely Incorporating Family Engagement to Support Children's Development

Support families in understanding their child’s progress:

• Understanding Your Child’s Results
• Generating Student Reports for Parents

Other family engagement resources can be found on CLI’s Family Engagement Resources Webpage.

Visit our website to view our training calendar and previously recorded webinars.

• More than 70 CPE hours of core content training
• Ongoing implementation webinars and research-based outreach for teachers and principals 

mCLASS Texas Edition Professional Development:

• Data Driven Instruction: mCLASS Texas Screener and Administration Best Practices
• mCLASS Texas online training course
• Mapping measures to basic early literacy skills
• Administering and scoring measures
• Data Interpretation and Reporting Features
• Navigation of skills focused lessons to support individual and group instruction

Data driven instructional Planning Webinar Series: September 22 and 24, January 2021 and May 2021

• Analyzing current student level data to inform instructional
• Identifying instructional trends and next steps
• Best practices for forming and adjusting small group instruction

mCLASS Texas Edition includes an expansive suite of on-demand resources to teachers and leaders, such as videos and online tutorials. Sample topics include but are not limited to:

• Scoring and Administration videos
• Reporting Tutorial for Teachers
• Reporting Tutorial for Leaders
• Additional facilitator-led training available for purchase by districts. Professional learning is available for initial training, strengthening and advanced sessions, in-depth use of the leadership Reporting and Analytics Suite, and coaching sessions.
• Teachers and administrators are supported year-round by our customer support team, providing phone, chat, and email support. Additional pedagogical support is provided by our educational support team for more nuanced, expert advice.

With FastBridge, Educators Can Easily Access Convenient, On-Demand Resources for Training and Troubleshooting FastBridge has built a variety of flexible learning opportunities into every FastBridge subscription. Access these resources for the support you need to use FastBridge effectively, when and where you need them.

Flexible Certifications: Free online training courses are available 24/7 to help educators use FastBridge tools correctly to maximize assessment accuracy. Certifications cover:

• Navigation
• Screening
• Progress monitoring
• Assessment administration

FastBridge Knowledge Base: Enjoy 24/7 access to a robust, user-friendly hub of helpful information for research, professional learning and troubleshooting. Access the Knowledge Base to:

• Watch on-demand webinars
• Participate in live chats
• Submit questions to the school support team

Web-Based Learning: Our on-demand, online modules for independent learners cover:

• Assessment overviews
• Step-by-step product guidance
• Scoring practice
• Video tutorials

To-Do List: Get recommended timely actions and tasks based on best practices for implementing a successful MTSS program.

Additional Cost Training Opportunities: Customized in-person or virtual training sessions can help build expertise within the district. Our offerings are flexible and fit a variety of models including train-the-trainer or direct training of end-users

Visit CLI Engage for remote assessment administration information for TPRI. The Children’s Learning Institute has developed and tested alternative administration functionality and protocols for the school year.

Remote assessment requires adjustments to administration procedures to provide reliable measures of students’ skills and abilities. Tips for remote assessment administration are covered on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled “Assessments & Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data.”

• Remote Administration Training for TPRI

Download the remote administration teacher’s guides for specific information about using TPRI virtually with students in grades 1 and 2. Remote administration teacher's guides include:

• TPRI Teacher’s Guide – 1st Grade Remote Administration
• TPRI Teacher’s Guide – 2nd Grade Remote Administration
• TPRI User Guide

Conducting assessments remotely creates new opportunities for working in partnership with families. Sharing family-friendly descriptions of the learning areas covered by student assessment help equip families to better support learning at home. Family-friendly measure descriptions include:

• TPRI Family-Friendly Descriptions – 1st Grade
• TPRI Family-Friendly Descriptions – 2nd Grade

Remote administration opportunities are available for the following TPRI measures for grades 1 and 2:

● Letter Sounds (G1)

● Phonemic Awareness (G1)

● Graphophonemic Knowledge (G1-G2)

● Word Reading (G1-G2)

● Reading Accuracy (G1-G2)

● Reading Fluency (G1-G2)

● Listening/Reading/Comprehension (G1-G2)

Web Conferencing Tools document shows annotation settings to allow teachers and students to communicate more seamlessly during remote assessment receptive tasks.

● Web Conferencing Tools

Remote administration of TPRI requires certain materials that vary from use in a traditional classroom setting, including:

● A desktop computer or laptop with internet connectivity for teacher

● A smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop with internet connectivity for student

● Required use of any web-based conferencing program

● Use of Remote Task Boards for TPRI for 1st Grade

● Visual Schedule for Student Remote Assessment

Visit CLI Engage for remote assessment administration information for Tejas LEE.

The Children’s Learning Institute has developed and tested alternative administration functionality and protocols for the school year.

Remote assessment requires adjustments to administration procedures to provide reliable measures of students’ skills and abilities. Tips for remote assessment administration are covered on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled “Assessments & Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data.”

● Remote Administration Training for Tejas LEE

Download the Tejas LEE User and Teacher’s Guide for Remote Administration for specific information about using Tejas LEE virtually with students in grades 1 and 2.

Remote administration teacher's guides include:

• Tejas LEE User Guide Tejas LEE Teacher’s Guide – 1st Grade Remote Administration
• Tejas LEE Teacher’s Guide – 2nd Grade Remote Administration

Conducting assessments remotely creates new opportunities for working in partnership with families. Sharing family-friendly descriptions of the learning areas covered by student assessment help equip families to better support learning at home. Family-friendly measure descriptions include:

• Tejas LEE Family-Friendly Descriptions – 1st Grade
• Tejas LEE Family-Friendly Descriptions – 2nd Grade

Remote administration opportunities are available for the following Tejas LEE measures for grades 1 and 2:

• Conocimiento de los grafofonemas (Graphophonemic Knowledge) (G1-G2)
• Conciencia fonológica (Phonological Awareness) (G1)
• Fluidez de lectura (Reading Fluency)(G1-G2)
• Exactitud de lectura (Reading Accuracy) (G1-G2)
• Comprensión de lectura (Reading Comprehension) (G1-G2)
• Acentuación (Accenting) (G2)

Web Conferencing Tools document shows annotation settings to allow teachers and students to communicate more seamlessly during remote assessment receptive tasks. Web Conferencing Tools

Remote administration of Tejas LEE requires certain materials that vary from use in a traditional classroom setting, including:

• A desktop computer or laptop with internet connectivity for teacher
• A smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop with internet connectivity for student
• Required use of any web-based conferencing program
• Visual Schedule for Student Remote Assessment

mCLASS Texas Edition can be administered one-on-one remotely over a web-based video connection. Step-by step instructions and PD videos are provided. To explain to caregivers how to help (but not help too much!), included are letters and videos in English and Spanish.

mCLASS also includes validated Online Alternative Measures for grades 1-6 (English). These measures offer useful data about text reading, comprehension, decoding, spelling, and vocabulary. They may be used to screen students athome.

Remote Learning and Assessment Guidance

Considerations for Universal Screening with FastBridge During Virtual Education

FastBridge assessments are online or one on one. Any online assessment can be administered to students at home that have a device and internet access can as long as they are made available to them by the school or district FastBridge manager. Other FastBridge assessments require a teacher to download and share student forms and administer the assessment directly with the student. The assessment can then be completed with a one on one virtual meeting. The assessment formats will determine the necessary procedures for distance-based screening. •

• Webinar: Remote Universal Screening with FastBridge
• Webinar: Remote Progress Monitoring with FastBridge

Alignments to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):

• TPRI – 1st Grade
• TPRI – 2nd Grade

Integrated small group activities based on student results to support skill development and scaffolding interventions. Each activity translates research into practice through a variety of hands-on activities that teachers can implement with students in a wide variety of settings. Aligned to state standards and available on CLI Engage.

• CIRCLE Activity Collection: Pre-K to Grade 2

Watch this brief video on how to access and create a variety of reports after the administration of TPRI:

• Accessing Reports on CLI Engage

Learn more about analyzing data and planning small group instruction on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled “Assessments & Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data.”

• Analyzing TPRI Classroom Data for MOY
• Small-Group Instructional Planning Using Targeted Activities for Grades 1 & 2 Webinar
• TPRI Intervention

Find guidance on how to use TPRI scores to identify students who qualify for instructional intervention (“at-risk” students).

• TPRI Intervention Criteria

Alignments to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):

• Tejas LEE – 1st Grade
• Tejas LEE – 2nd Grade

Integrated small group activities based on student results to support skill development and scaffolding interventions. Each activity translates research into practice through a variety of hands-on activities that teachers can implement with students in a wide variety of settings. Aligned to state standards and available on CLI Engage.

• CIRCLE Activity Collection: Pre-K to Grade 2

Watch this brief video on how to access and create a variety of reports after the administration of Tejas LEE

• Accessing Reports on CLI Engage

Learn more about analyzing data and planning small group instruction on our Webinars and Presentations page under the section titled “Assessments & Analyzing Progress Monitoring Data.”

• Analyzing Tejas LEE Classroom Data for MOY
• Small-Group Instructional Planning Using Targeted Activities for Grades 1 & 2 Webinar

mCLASS Texas Edition

• Analyzes the item-level errors and reports on sub-skill reading patterns for each child
• Provides teacher-led activities to target skill needs for each child
• Automatically groups students based on response patterns and provides aligned teacher-led activities for each group
• Individual and group instructional recommendations update when students are progress-monitored
• Optional adaptive supplemental reading program
• Optional reading intervention program for Tier II and Tier II students

FastBridge offers integrated reporting, creating seamless data between screening and progress monitoring and making it easy for educators to make instructional decisions so they can spend more time teaching. All reports are accessed in one place with a user-friendly dashboard. Some commonly used FastBridge reports include the following:

Group Screening Report: Quickly and accurately identifies and groups students by risk.

Group Growth Report: Highlights rate of improvement based on fall benchmarks and provides growth goals and comparisons to class, school, district, and national norms.

Family Report: Designed for parents, this report helps parents and teachers discuss their student’s FastBridge assessment results.

Screening to Intervention Report (S2i): The built-in Recommendation Engine guides teachers to applicable interventions available within their school and district. The Screening to Intervention (S2i) Report summarizes multiple assessment results into clear, actionable steps for students, subgroups and entire classes to guide appropriate supports. Once students are set up with an intervention, teachers can use brief progress monitoring probes to quickly track student growth. FastBridge not only shows student progress in easy-to-interpret graphs, but it also projects future performance in half the time as other solutions, allowing teachers to make modifications earlier to accelerate student outcomes.

Individual Skills Report: Provides a snapshot of the student’s risk relative to benchmarks on an item-by-item basis.

Group Skills Report: Summarizes skills by student and group, facilitating better differentiated instructional grouping decisions by teachers.

Student-at-a-Glance Report: Details all assessment activity — screening and progress monitoring — over time.

Progress Monitoring Report: Provides details on individual student performance by intervention, rate of improvement, date, trend, goal and more.

Identify At-Risk Students: When used consistently throughout the school year for universal screening, FastBridge provides access to reliable data across reading, math and social-emotional behavior (SEB) assessments. Teachers can apply that data to identify at-risk students and provide on-time, effective interventions.

CLI Engage offers Dyslexia Screeners for 1st grade students in English and Spanish. TPRI & Tejas LEE direct assessments are aligned with the criteria for dyslexia screening in accordance with the Dyslexia Handbook.

The TPRI measures that the Dyslexia screener is comprised of are:

• SCR-2 Word Reading
• SCR-3 Blending Phonemes

The Tejas LEE measures that the Dyslexia screener is comprised of are:

• Reconocimiento de las palabras
• Segmentación de los sonidos
• Unión de los sonidos

CLI Engage also provides a comprehensive Dyslexia Referral Checklist (DRC) for 1st and 2nd grade to support teachers with determining those students who may need further diagnostic referral. You can download the Dyslexia Referral Checklist (DRC) for 1st and 2nd grade

For more information on the TPRI & Tejas LEE Dyslexia Screener and Dyslexia Referral Checklists (DRC) visit:  Dyslexia Screeners on CLI Engage

Intervention resources can be found in the CIRCLE Activity Collection (hyperlink: https://circleactivitycollection.org/pre-k-to-grade-2-collection/ ) and are aligned to state standards available on CLI Engage.

mCLASS Texas edition is fully aligned to requirements in the Dyslexia Handbook in English and Spanish.

• mCLASS Texas Edition Dyslexia Tool Kit
• Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is available upon request (at no cost)

Using a combination of earlyReading and CBMreading covers the following domains related to dyslexia screening:

• Phoneme Segmentation and Blending
• Onset and Rime
• Rapid Automatic Naming
• Letter-Sound Association
• Phonological Memory
• Oral Vocabulary
• Word Identification
• Oral Reading Fluency
• Reading Comprehension

Vertical alignment of assessments PK-2nd grade on CLI Engage

• Prekindergarten – CIRCLE Progress Monitoring
• Kindergarten – TX-KEA
• 1st and 2nd – TPRI and Tejas LEE

Prekindergarten and Kindergarten multi-dimensional tools available for continuous improvement (e.g., classroom observation tools)

Vertical alignment of assessments PK-2nd grade on CLI Engage

• Prekindergarten – CIRCLE Progress Monitoring
• Kindergarten – TX-KEA
• 1st and 2nd – TPRI and Tejas LEE

Prekindergarten and Kindergarten multi-dimensional tools available for continuous improvement (e.g., classroom observation tools)

mCLASS Texas Edition offers:

• Vertical alignment of assessments and measures for grades K-6
• Grade 1 and 2 instruments currently available at no cost to support continuity among early grades instruments

Reading Tools Included:

• Curriculum-Based Measurement for Reading (CBMreading) is an efficient, evidence-based assessment for universal screening in grades 1-8, and progress monitoring for grades 1-12. It is a simple and efficient procedure. Available in both English and Spanish.
• Curriculum-Based Measurement for Comprehension (CBMcomp) assesses the details and coherence recalled and retold by a student immediately after reading. The measure is an optional add-on to CBMreading passages for screening and progress monitoring grades 1-8.
• earlyReading: Get a trusted, insightful composite score indicating students’ readiness or risk with this screening and monitoring tool (PreK-1; may be used for older students as well). Subsets are suggested per benchmark period, varying over time. Available in English or Spanish.