The Vendor is required to provide web-based reading and language arts guided reading software k-12, including a component to assess reading comprehension and skills for independent readers which supplements regular reading instruction in k–12 classrooms.
- Services include:
• Software should allow for frequent practice of reading skills including but not limited to five reading domains:   (word knowledge and skills, comprehension strategies and constructing meaning, analyzing literary text, understanding author’s craft, and analyzing argument and evaluating text).
• Software should be designed so there are opportunities for students to practice reading fluency and comprehension with appropriate texts of a wide variety of types and with a balance between literature and nonfiction works;
• The software should engage students in substantial amounts of reading practice and students should receive immediate feedback which allows teachers to set individual and class reading goals.
• Software should begin with an assessment component and then allow students to continuously increase their reading level through daily independent reading along with reading comprehension assessments at frequent intervals to facilitate teacher’s knowledge of each student’s progress.
• Software should provide opportunities for educators to monitor student progress on every aspect of comprehension skills.
• Monitoring must allow for students to receive regular feedback on their oral reading fluency/comprehension skills;
• Software should provide all students, including those who read below grade level, with extensive opportunities and support to encounter and comprehend grade-level complex texts;
• Software should guide students to authentic books where the level of difficulty is neither too hard nor too easy—the level at which optimal learning takes place.
• Software must adequately address the state student standards for the grade, including thorough unpacking of vocabulary and the syntax of texts;
• Software should offer support for teachers, for English language learners and for students with special needs;
• Software reports should include assessment data that covers reading comprehension of fiction and nonfiction reading, vocabulary development, literacy skills development, and details the student’s grade equivalency, scaled score, and national percentile rank.
• Cost of program for 6,500 student licenses.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: April 23, 2025