Measuring Growth

Skill assessment and monitoring the progress of your students can be challenging. Our computer-based diagnostic tools can help you assess the needs of your students in reading and math.

Scholastic Reading Inventory ®

Grades K-12

• offers reading comprehension and skill assessment in a computer-adaptive environment
• helps teachers implement text-complexity strategies
• provides a quantifiable trajectory to college and career readiness.

Scholastic Math Inventory ™

Grades 2-9+

• comprehensive skill assessment allows teachers to measure student growth from basic math through Algebra I
• helps teachers differentiate math instruction and set objective growth goals for math learners

Scholastic Phonics Inventory™

Grades 3-12

• measures fluency in phonological decoding and sight-word reading in less than 10 minutes
• provides skill assessment in all aspects of foundational reading
• helps teacher understand the reading needs of the older struggling reader

Math Reasoning Inventory ™

Grades 4 and up

• available as a FREE online resource, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• measures students’ numerical reasoning through an interview process that focuses on whole numbers, fractions, and decimals

Scholastic Reading Counts! ®

Grades K-12

• provides computer-based tools to support the independent reading practice of all students
• supports the implementation of text-complexity strategies and helps teachers set higher goals
• provides actionable metrics about students’ reading habits, interests, growth, and success

Independent Reading Assessment: Fiction

Grades 3-5

• provides teachers with precise data on students’ sustained comprehension of entire books
• targets teaching instruction to get students to the next level

Independent Reading Assessment: Nonfiction

Grades 3-5

• provides teachers with precise data on students’ sustained comprehension of entire nonfiction books
• offers 100+ engaging lessons that catapult students to much higher levels of complex-text comprehension

Next Step Guided Reading Assessment

Grades K-6

• answers the call for a guided reading system that’s designed from the ground up to meet the Common Core
• offers clear suggestions about how to form guided reading groups, plan and teach effective lessons, and move students into more challenging texts