Use the Skills Support Report to see which students in your classroom are currently struggling with specific concepts and skills. From the Skills Support Report, you can:
| See how many students are struggling with K-2 literacy skills. | |
| See which students are struggling with skills aligned with selected academic standards. | |
| See how many times a student attempted a lesson focused on a specific skill or standard. |
Skills Support Report Basics
| Click here to open the Reading Park Support Skills Report PDF (you will be prompted to log into the Learn site). |
How often does the Skills Support Report update?
The Skills Support Report updates throughout the day, providing teachers with updated information about where students in their classrooms are struggling.
Which standards can I select?
DreamBox Learning Units, Common Core State Standards, and the following state standards are available to all educators.
- California Common Core State Standards.
- Ohio Learning Standards.
- Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
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DreamBox Learning Units are our in-house literacy standards developed in alignment with Foundational Reading Standards for grades K-2, Common Core State Standards, and recommended best practices for PreK Learning. To see an overview of the Reading Park program and scope and sequence, open these resources on the Learn Site (After clicking each link, you will be prompted to sign in to the Learn site before you can view the document.) |
Will the Skills Support Report always show at least some students in my classroom?
Not always. Sometimes you may see a notification that no students are currently struggling (see examples below).
| Report Tile notification | Notification inside the Skills Support Report | ||
The notifications above mean that your students may not be demonstrating understanding in every lesson, but they eventually demonstrate they understand a skill. For example, even if they do not demonstrate understanding the first time they complete a lesson, they do the next time they play it. This shows that they may not have understood a skill initially but understand it now. As a result, they are not identified as struggling on the Skills Support Report.
Opening the report
To open the report, select either the Skills Report tile or the Skills button on the Home page of your educator dashboard.
| If any students are struggling, you will see a list of domains and the total number of students struggling with those domain skills on the report tile. |
If you see Reading Park and Reading Plus data in your educator dashboard, look for the Park flag on the report tile.
Closing the report
To close the report, select either the HOME icon, link, or the Overview button above the Skills Support Report.
Navigating the Skills Support Report
The report opens to the classroom view, showing all of the skills students are struggling with. The skills are organized by grade level, ordered by lowest grade level to highest.
| Note: The Skills Support Report is only available at the classroom level for educators connected to at least one classroom in Reading Park. |
Understanding Student Struggle and Proficiency
A student is considered struggling when they complete but do not show proficiency on two lessons in a row that explore the same Skill. The lessons need to be the two most recent lessons aligned with the DreamBox Learning Unit that the student completed. When this happens, the student is added to the Skills Support Report as struggling, associated with that DreamBox Learning Unit. The next time the student passes a lesson aligned with the same DreamBox Learning Unit, they are removed from the report.
Let’s take a deeper look. What does it mean when:
| A student IS on the report? | A student IS NOT on the report? | A student who was on the report has been REMOVED? |
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The student has not demonstrated understanding during the two most recent lessons they have played in a row that are exploring the same skill. |
There are two possible causes:
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The student demonstrated understanding of the skill explored in a lesson since the time you last viewed the report, confirming they now understand and are no longer struggling. |
Using Skills Support Report data in your classroom
When students appear in the Skills Support Report, don’t panic. Look for patterns in the report data across domains, grade-level standards, and the students themselves.
- Which students are appearing the most?
- Do you see connections between domains, grade-level standards, and highlighted students?
When you have identified a pattern:
- Check in with students
- Observe students while playing to see where they might be getting confused.
- Review a skill with students either one-on-one, in small groups, or as a class.
Saving, Printing, or Exporting the Report
To print, save a copy, or export the report to a CSV file:
- Click the Print/Download button in the top right corner of the screen.
- Do one of the following:
- To print the report or save it as a PDF: Select Print/Download and follow the prompts to either print or save the report.
- To export the report to a CSV file: Select Export Report CSV. The file will begin downloading.
- A green banner will appear at the bottom of your screen, confirming your print/export request was successful and where to find the document on your device.
| If you are having trouble saving, printing, or exporting the report, please contact DreamBox Customer Support. |
Skills Support Report FAQs
| Q: Why can’t I see the Skills Support Report on my dashboard? |
A: The Skills Support Report is only available at the classroom level. There are two possible reasons you do not see the Skills Support Report on your dashboard, based on your role in Reading Park:
- I am a district or school administrator: You are not connected to any classes in Reading Park. You will not see the Skills Support Report. If you would like to be able to review the data in this report, please contact DreamBox Customer Support and let us know this is a feature you want to see in the future.
- I am a teacher: If you are connected to multiple classes in Reading Park, you will see the All My Classes heading at the top of your dashboard but you will not see the Skills Support Report tile. To see the tile, click the Classes button on the left side of the dashboard and select a class. Your dashboard will update, showing the Skills Support Report tile for the selected class.
| Q: Why doesn’t the skill description on the “current area of struggle” table match the description of the academic standard I have selected? |
A: The curricular concept, or DreamBox Learning Unit, is always listed above the selected academic standard on the Current Area of Struggle table. If selected, the aligned state standard is displayed just below it.
| Q: Why are students working in multiple grade levels at the same time? |
A: Research on how children learn has shown that it is not a straightforward, linear process. Students connect new ideas to ideas and their learning branches out like a web vs a straight up and down scaffold. Literacy standards cover a wide range of alphabetic principles, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and fluency skills. Students may be ready to work toward mastery in one concept, but in another, they may need review to shore up gaps in their understanding before moving forward.
The DreamBox Reading Park adaptive engine adapts as each student plays and completes lessons based on their understanding. This means that sometimes the same student may be working in multiple grade-level standards at the same time. They are working toward mastery in some concepts and domains, but need to review and solidify their understanding of others before they move forward. Because DreamBox provides a recommended lesson pathway based on each student's individual needs, students are often working in multiple grade levels across the K-2 DreamBox math domains.
| Q: One of my students shows a proficiency percentage above 80% on a specific skill, but the report is still showing they are struggling. Why is this happening? |
A: The proficiency percentage on the Skills Support Report shows their overall understanding of the lesson skill, not their proficiency in the lesson. As students complete lessons with proficiency in a learning path, lessons become more challenging. A student showing 80% or higher proficiency while highlighted as struggling on the report is likely working on the final lessons in the learning path for that standard. These lessons are designed so students can “show what they know” to validate that they truly understand the concept.
| Q: Why are the failed lesson attempts so high for a student? This student has not appeared on the Skills Support Report before now for this skill. |
A: This student may have a pattern of not passing a lesson the first time they play it but passing it the second time they play it. When a student alternates between passing and failing lessons aligned to the same standard, they will not appear on the report, but Reading Park keeps track of their cumulative attempts at lessons aligned to that standard in the background. When the student does not pass a lesson aligned to the same standard two times in a row they will appear on the report, and you may see more failed attempts than you expected for two reasons:
- They did not appear on the report when they failed a lesson but passed the next time.
- The report shows cumulative failed lesson attempts for all lessons aligned to the same standard, not just the attempts associated with the current struggle area.
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