May 2026 Product Update: Collections, Groups, and Reports
A walkthrough of the latest ReadingFluency.app updates, including passage collections, roster groups with goals, Reports views, and the refreshed getting-started tutorial.
ReadingFluency.app has had a busy month.
After the April release introduced workspaces and the new credit model, we kept building around the next teacher bottleneck: organizing the growing amount of reading data once assessment becomes easier to collect.
These updates were shaped by the educators who have been telling us what would make ReadingFluency.app more useful in real classrooms. Thank you to Matt and Alyssa from Minnesota, Literacy League from Canada, Ms. Lin from Germany, Matthew from Australia, Caitlin from Delaware, and Kathy from Florida for driving so much of this work through your feedback, questions, and classroom use.
If you are a teacher, reading specialist, interventionist, or literacy leader who would like to join us and help shape what comes next, please email support@readingfluency.app.
This update adds passage collections, roster groups with goals, Workspace Reports, and a refreshed getting-started guide with new screenshots that show the app as it works today.
Passage collections keep benchmark sets together
Passage libraries can grow quickly. Teachers might have benchmark passages, weekly intervention passages, science passages, seasonal passages, and imported curriculum texts all in the same workspace.
Collections give those passages a clearer home.
You can now create a collection, filter the passage library by that collection, and keep related passages ordered for repeated use.
The important detail is that collections are flexible. One passage can belong to multiple collections, so a benchmark passage can also sit inside a warmup set or a unit-specific set without being duplicated.
This should make benchmark windows, intervention cycles, and team-shared passage libraries easier to maintain.
Roster groups now have their own Students workflow
Students also need structure beyond tags.
The new Students tab gives roster groups a dedicated workflow, so teachers can group students by intervention tier, class section, caseload, service group, or any local grouping that matters.
Students can belong to more than one group. That makes it possible to keep a student in a grade-level class group and an intervention group at the same time.
Roster groups can also carry optional WCPM and accuracy goals.
Those goals become especially useful in Reports because they can appear directly on the chart when the group is selected.
Workspace Reports help teams analyze progress
The goal is simple: make it easier to see who is improving, who is flatlining, which passages are driving the view, and whether a student group is moving toward its goals.
Reports can filter by:
- students
- roster groups
- passages
- time range
When a roster group has goals, the report can show those goals as chart reference lines alongside the filtered student trends.
The chart also includes average lines and percentile bands, so teachers can look at both individual student movement and the range of the currently filtered group.
There is also a distribution view for reading WCPM against accuracy.
That view is useful when you want to quickly distinguish students who are slow but accurate, fast but inaccurate, or behind on both measures.
For a step-by-step walkthrough, see Analyze Reading Fluency Reports.
Workspaces and sidebar navigation are now part of the main tutorial
The getting-started guide now reflects the newer workspace and sidebar model.
The sidebar is now the stable home for Dashboard, Students, Passages, Reports, Subscription, workspace switching, support, profile, and theme controls.
Workspace collaboration is also covered in the tutorial.
Workspace owners can manage members and pending invites from the workspace manager. Teacher Plus and district workspaces can invite collaborators so a classroom teacher, reading specialist, interventionist, or coach can share the same student and passage context.
Credits are still explained in the April update
The May guide now briefly points teachers to the subscription page so they can see their workspace credit balance and current plan.
We are not repeating the entire credit explanation here because the April post already covers it: free accounts receive signup credits, Teacher Plus subscribers receive monthly credits, and district licenses receive unlimited credits.
For the full details, read April 2026 Product Update: Workspaces, Credits, and Faster Group Sessions.
The tutorial has been refreshed
The full getting-started tutorial now covers:
- sidebar and workspace navigation
- collaborator invites
- passage collections
- multi-collection passage membership
- roster groups
- group goals
- Reports filters and chart views
- subscription and credit basics
- updated teacher and student screenshots
If you are new to ReadingFluency.app, start with the updated tutorial path here: Get Started with ReadingFluency.app.
What this update is really about
The first wave of ReadingFluency.app focused on making oral reading fluency assessment faster to collect.
This wave is about making the data easier to organize and interpret once you have it.
Collections help teachers manage passages. Roster groups help teachers manage students. Reports helps teachers see growth and risk across both.
That is the shape of where we are going: less time organizing reading records, more time using them.
See what this could look like in your classroom.
If you want to spend less time on assessment logistics and more time helping students read, these pages show a few practical ways ReadingFluency.app can help.
Reports brings group, passage, average, percentile, and goal views into one workspace-level progress screen.
Passage collections make generated and imported passages easier to reuse across benchmark windows.
Roster groups and Reports help teachers move from individual assessment records to classroom-level progress monitoring.
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