Analyze Reading Fluency Reports

Reports turn assigned reading assessments into workspace-level progress views. Use them when you need to understand more than one student at a time: a roster, an intervention group, a passage set, or a specific time window.

Open Reports

1. Use a workspace with assigned student assessments.
2. Click Reports in the sidebar.
3. Review the workspace-level trends.

Reports chart assigned student assessments. If an assessment is not assigned to a student, assign it from the assessment report first.

Reports trend view

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Questions Reports can answer

Reports help school leaders, reading specialists, literacy coaches, program directors, intervention leads, district admins, and teachers answer practical roster-level questions:

• Which students are below or above the current percentile band?
• Which students should be discussed for Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 support?
• For whom is the existing intervention working?
• How are students in continuous improvement performing?
• What is the average WCPM or accuracy for this roster or subgroup?
• How does passage mapping relate to students' reading skills?

Reports should support professional judgment, not replace it. Use the charts to find patterns, then open the underlying reading record when a score needs closer review.

Filter Reports

Use the filters at the top of Reports to narrow by:

• students
• roster groups
• passages
• time range

When exactly one goal-configured roster group is selected, Reports can show WCPM and accuracy goal lines. The Goals menu on the chart can also draw the English grade norms for Grades 1–6 instead: shaded season bands with a dashed line at the median, on the WCPM axis.

Reports group goals

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Read the chart views

Reports includes:

• Trend view for connected student progress over time
• Distribution view for WCPM by accuracy
• toggleable WCPM and accuracy metrics
• average lines
• P25-P75 percentile bands
• a student summary table with latest scores, ROI, and goal gaps

Reports distribution view

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Use averages and percentile bands

Average lines show the center of the currently charted data. If you filter to one roster group, one passage set, or one time window, the average lines update for that selected view.

P25-P75 percentile bands show the middle range of the current charted rows. Students outside that band are often worth a closer look:

• below the band may need additional review or support
• above the band may be ready for a different goal, passage level, or monitoring cadence
• inside the band may still need attention if accuracy, WCPM, or ROI is moving in the wrong direction

Use group goals and ROI

Roster group goals appear when exactly one goal-configured group is selected. This is useful for groups such as "Tier 2", "Tier 3 Intensive", "Intervention Cycle 1", or "Continuous Improvement".

The student summary table helps you compare:

• latest WCPM
• latest accuracy
• WCPM ROI
• accuracy ROI
• WCPM goal gap
• accuracy goal gap

ROI is the weekly rate of improvement: the trend line through the student's filtered readings that count toward norms, in WCPM (or accuracy points) per week. It is the same rate the student's profile shows. When there is not enough to go on, the cell says Need 2+ scores, Need 2+ counted, or Need 1 wk apart. Use ROI to notice students who are improving, students who are flat, and students whose scores are moving backward.

Use the Goals & norms tab

Click Goals & norms at the top of Reports to see every group's goals and the grade norms on one page.

Goals & norms tab

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• Roster group goals: each group with goals has a card with its checkpoints: the date, the WCPM and accuracy targets, and the growth per week needed to reach each checkpoint from the one before. The next checkpoint is marked Next. Click Edit goals to change them, or Show on chart to draw them on the Trends chart.
• Without goals: lists your other groups. Click Set goals beside a group, or click New group with goals to create a group and its goals in one dialog. Nothing is created until you save.
• English grade norms: the Hasbrouck & Tindal (2017) oral reading fluency norms for Grades 1–6 in fall, winter, and spring (Grade 1 has no fall norms), with the median, the middle half (25th–75th percentile), and the 10th–90th percentile range. The current season is marked Now. Click Show on chart on a grade to draw its norms on the Trends chart, or click Interactive norms chart to explore the same norms in ORF Norms by Grade.

To set up goals in the first place, see Set goals for a roster group.

Drill into the reading record

Clicking a chart point opens the selected assessment report inline, so you can move from a pattern to the actual reading record without leaving Reports.

That matters when a data point needs context. You can review the passage, score, miscues, audio playback, AI analysis, and teacher notes before making a decision from the chart alone.

To see why a restart, self-correction, pause, or inserted word is not counted as a miscue, read What counts as a reading error.

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