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Computer-Based Screening and Placement Ensure that the Right Students are Placed at the Right Level

Ensuring that the right students are placed in the program at the right level is critical. That’s why System 44 includes the Scholastic Phonics Inventory (SPI). The SPI can be administered to any student who scores BR to a 400 Lexile® on the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI). Using various discrimination tasks, the SPI determines whether or not the root cause of reading difficulty is an inability to decode, and generates one of three possible paths for students:
Scholastic Phonics Inventory (SPI)
  1. Student should be placed in System 44 and begin with the most foundational lessons.

  2. Student should be placed in System 44 and may skip the most foundational lessons.

  3. Student has proficient decoding skills and does not belong in System 44, but would likely benefit from READ 180, the comprehensive reading intervention program.

A computer-based assessment, SPI can be administered to hundreds of students in about 10 minutes. This test has been validated against the TOWRE (Test for Word Reading Efficiency) and the Woodcock-Johnson®.

Download the SPI Technical Guide to Research and Validation

Phonics Inventory (SPI) Assessment
“One of the very great needs in the middle grades up is for good diagnostic tests…
that are efficient, tests that are sensitive, so that we can give students the help they need.”
- Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams
Principal Scientist, Phonics Instruction
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