McGraw-Hill Digital Learning Launches Yearly ProgressPro™ Reading/Language Arts

McGraw-Hill Digital Learning today announced the release of Yearly ProgressPro™ Reading/Language Arts for Grades 1-8, an assessment, reporting and tutorial system based on the same scientific methodology as the highly successful Yearly ProgressPro™ Math. Yearly ProgressPro™ Reading/Language Arts fulfills educators' need for effective ongoing progress monitoring and data-driven instruction to support student achievement.

Yearly ProgressPro™ Reading/Language Arts comprises two types of online assessments which can be administered to classrooms each week. The Reading Maze is a timed assessment consisting of weekly leveled reading passages for Grades 1-8 that serve as effective indicators of overall reading ability, fluency, decoding and comprehension skills. The weekly Language Arts assessments consist of items tied to specific skills and standards. These items diagnose strengths and weaknesses in areas such as decoding, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension.

"After an extensive national search, we chose McGraw-Hill Digital Learning's Yearly ProgressPro™ system as the district's formative assessment solution for students," said Dr. Darryl W. Thomas, director, Research, Assessment and Evaluation for the Salt Lake City, Utah, Granite School District. "We have successfully piloted the new Yearly ProgressPro™ Reading/Language Arts program this year and anticipate that we will see the same positive effect on student learning we have experienced with the math product. By using this product 15 minutes each week teachers found they can inform their instruction to efficiently improve student performance."

Yearly ProgressPro™ Reading/Language Arts and Yearly ProgressPro™ Math combine ongoing formative assessment with prescriptive instruction and a robust reporting system.

"YPP Reading/Language Arts provides teachers with a powerful tool to make data-driven instructional decisions," said Photo Anagnostopoulos, president, McGraw-Hill Digital Learning. "It not only provides educators with detailed information on each student's progress, but it ties that information directly to specific instructional exercises to help raise student achievement."

About Yearly ProgressPro™

Launched in 2003 by McGraw-Hill Digital Learning, Yearly ProgressPro™ is an online progress monitoring system built on 25 years of research in the scientific methodology of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) which has been proven to be a highly effective method for improving student learning outcomes. CBM continually assesses mastery across the curriculum during the year to measure not only progress but also knowledge retention and skills over time. Yearly ProgressPro™ helps administrators and teachers track Adequate Yearly Progress, a key component of the No Child Left Behind legislation.

Yearly ProgressPro™ is a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 20th Annual Codie Awards for the best elementary education and best secondary education instructional solution.

For more information, visit http://www.mhdigitallearning.com/ and click "Product Tour" or call 1-800-848-1567, ext. 4424.

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