Specifications include, but are not limited to: General Requirements: • Include evidenced-based and tiered interventions for students not meeting the learning standards or achieving below grade level, supplemental to the core curricula. • Alignment to South Carolina Standards in Reading and/or Mathematics • The program supports emergent and early readers with gaps in their core reading knowledge. • The intervention provides diagnostic assessment, placement assessment for accurate program placement. • Include resources that support the teaching and learning of students needing enrichment and acceleration. • The intervention provides opportunities for progress monitoring, student review and practice, and/or virtual instruction. • The intervention provides acceleration and remediation lessons/materials when necessary. • The intervention is aligned to the science of reading as outlined in the SC Read to Succeed legislation. Usability: • The program is user-friendly and can provide students with additional support as well as engaging, interactive, and ageappropriate content for students. • If the intervention is digital, it includes a text-to-speech tool, which includes the reading of texts and online tool capabilities (highlighter, magnifier, color contrast, virtual manipulatives, etc.). • The intervention can be self-paced and easy for students to utilize independently. • Materials provide teacher guidance with useful annotations and suggestions for how to enact the student materials and ancillary materials to support students' literacy and/or math development. Data and Reporting: • The intervention must have a methodology for frequently identifying or diagnosing students’ unfinished learning and directing students to content that addresses their specific needs. • The intervention must include the capability to provide individual student- and classroom-level reports/dashboards for the teacher to monitor product usage, growth, and achievement. • Data reports must contain detailed performance and progress information in both written and graphical form to facilitate the use of the scores for instructional planning and decision-making. • Allow for exporting of test results to upload into the district Data Management System. • Provide the district with the ability to disaggregate data for underserved student groups efficiently. • Include reports that provide parents/guardians and others with necessary information about the progress of the learner so that they may provide support at home or outside the school setting. • The intervention provides access to student-facing, teacher-facing, and parent/guardian facing data reports in multiple languages.
