Why is the Curriculum Alignment Guide not available for reading?
We do not provide a Curriculum Alignment Guide for Reading Performance due to the nature of a reading assessment. In general, the skills that measure reading comprehension remain consistent from grades two through twelve. What changes is the readability (difficulty) of the passages. For example, a student must identify the main idea of a story or analyze characters in a story whether he or she is in second grade or tenth. Scantron’s content team researched a variety of standards and information on reading assessment in order to develop the skill list. This allows Reading Performance to remain standards-based, while still assessing reading ability.
