Why didn’t I receive enough grade books to progress monitor all my Strategic and Intensive students?
Students should be progress monitored on their “instructional level” – not their grade level. Strategic students can usually be progress monitored on grade level. However, Intensive students are usually too low to show significant progress on grade level so someone must survey back (or test back) to determine the appropriate level to progress monitor. The progress monitoring level and the level at which students are instructed in interventions is typically the same. Notice I keep saying “usually” or “typically” because you must often use your best judgment of which level is most appropriate. When making decisions about the correct level for progress monitoring and instruction, also look at the percent correct. For example, a 2nd grade child who scored in the DIBELS Intensive range, but got every word correct (100%) and showed good understanding of the passage through the Retell, would not need to be progress monitored on 1st grade level but would probably need 2nd grade fluency interve
