Science of Reading resources hub
The Science of Reading is complex, so your understanding of it should be, too. That’s why our resource pages break it all down for you, from word recognition and comprehension to dyslexia and Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports. Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to make the greatest difference to your students!
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Amplify’s Science of Reading overview
Learn the ins and outs of the Science of Reading—what it means, and why its principles matter.
Science of Reading: The Podcast
Listen to the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading.
Science of Reading programs
Achieve next-level literacy growth with a cohesive Science of Reading suite.
Science of Reading success stories
We’ve helped thousands of Science of Reading champions make the shift, and they’re eager to share the secrets of their long-term success with fellow educators like you.
Science of Reading webinars
Get on-demand professional development to build and refine your toolkit of Science of Reading resources and instructional practices.
Science of Reading Star Awards
Nominate a literacy changemaker for our prestigious Science of Reading Star Awards!
Science of Reading data and MTSS
Fortify your Science of Reading implementation using essential data and a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
Change management
Educational change doesn’t happen overnight, or by itself. We’ll walk you through the process to help you make literacy success a lasting reality in your classroom.
Knowledge building
Learn the ins and outs of the Science of Reading—what it means, and why its principles matter.
Dyslexia and the Science of Reading
Discover how assessment and instruction grounded in the Science of Reading helps identify children at risk of developing dyslexia at the earliest possible moments, creating the widest opportunity for intervention.
Science of Reading professional development course
Learn everything you need to know about Science of Reading instruction with Amplify’s Chief Academic Officer and host of Science of Reading: The Podcast Susan Lambert.
Universal screening built on the Science of Reading
Based on over 30 years of research, mCLASS® is the universal K–6 assessment and intervention suite for early literacy that helps every child learn to read confidently.
What is mCLASS?
mCLASS, powered by DIBELS® 8th Edition, offers teacher-administered literacy assessments and intervention for grades K–6.
When you use mCLASS, you can be assured your students are getting the best the Science of Reading has to offer. Our assessments have been built on decades of research in curriculum-based measurement science, delivering a proven approach that screens for at-risk students and provides deep insight into individual students’ reading development.
Based on decades of leading literacy research
We partner with experts at the University of Oregon’s Center on Teaching and Learning, a recognized leader in early literacy assessment.
The University of Oregon are the creators of DIBELS® (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) and mCLASS is the only licensed digital provider of the research-based DIBELS 8th Edition assessment. See more of our research.
Our approach
The comprehensive mCLASS system includes efficient DIBELS 8th Edition’s one-minute measures, a built-in dyslexia screener, intervention, and robust reports for teachers and administrators. It’s all you’ll need to monitor and support every student in your classroom.
Save hours of time
As the only digital provider of DIBELS 8th Edition’s one-minute measures, mCLASS eliminates the manual assessment process— saving you hours of time and giving you instant results and clear next steps for each student. Learn more about mCLASS’S efficient measures.
Catch at-risk students early.
Early intervention is critical. mCLASS offers universal and dyslexia screening in a single powerful tool—no additional assessment system required. Your most vulnerable readers are identified at the earliest levels. Learn more about mCLASS’s dyslexia screening.
Connect student data to personalized learning.
mCLASS connects with Boost Reading (formerly known as Amplify Reading), a K–5 student-driven literacy program that provides both remediation and enrichment for all students, leveraging the power of compelling storytelling to engage students in personalized reading instruction and practice. Learn more about Boost Reading.
Catch at-risk students early.
Early intervention is critical. mCLASS offers universal and dyslexia screening in a single powerful tool—no additional assessment system required. Your most vulnerable readers are identified at the earliest levels. Learn more about mCLASS’s dyslexia screening.
We’re making an impact
2,000,000
students
120,000+
teachers
1,200+
districts
6,000+
schools
What’s included
mCLASS provides benchmark and progress-monitoring assessments for grades K–6. Its ecosystem of elementary reading resources works to target skill gaps and provide the right instruction at the right time.
DIBELS 8th Edition
mCLASS is powered by DIBELS 8th Edition, enabling you to automate scoring and receive instant targeted instructional recommendations. DIBELS 8th Edition measures:
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
Data you can trust
mCLASS’s teacher-administered assessment provides you with valid and reliable data that allows you to make informed decisions on instruction. Our assessments follow a one-on-one observational model.
Comprehensive literacy assessment
mCLASS provides benchmark assessments, ongoing progress monitoring, and voice recognition technology to comprehensively support each student’s literacy development.
- Foundational skills assessments
- Comprehension assessments
- Dyslexia screening assessments
Valid and reliable reporting
mCLASS gives educators detailed insight into your students’ reading development across foundational literacy skills. It provides a wealth of valuable reporting information for everyone—from classroom teachers and literacy specialists to principals and district leaders and parents and guardians at home.
- Skill-based reporting view for each student
- Real-time growth reports for each student
- Class summary reports
- School and district reports
- Parent and guardian reports
Embedded dyslexia screening
Included at no additional cost, mCLASS’s DIBELS 8th Edition measures are validated to provide information about dyslexia risk. mCLASS also offers supplemental measures to screen for risk related to dyslexia.
- Vocabulary
- Encoding
- Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)
Easy to use, targeted lessons
mCLASS provides targeted instruction in all the critical foundational reading skills by automatically analyzing data to place students in skill-based groups with targeted activities.
Seamless student intervention
mCLASS connects to mCLASS Intervention, a proven companion intervention program that provides the analytical tools and resources educators need to make targeted, staff-led intervention a daily reality throughout the school year.
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Welcome, mCLASS Lectura families!
We’re excited to welcome you and your child to the mCLASS® Lectura Caregiver Hub for the new school year. We’ve assembled the following resources and guides to help you support your child and enable them to have the most productive experience with our platform throughout the year. Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.
What is mCLASS Lectura?
mCLASS Lectura is an authentic personalized Spanish instruction and assessment system built specifically for bilingual children learning to read. It highlights what reading skills your child already knows, and it shares where they may need additional support.
mCLASS Lectura also provides teachers with instructional reading activities for each student based on their assessment score, in order to deliver targeted guidance on specific skills they may need support with.
Getting started
Ways to support your child
Home Connect
The mCLASS Home Connect website houses literacy resources for parents and caregivers, including at-home lessons organized by skill to support bilingual students learning to read in English. Our mCLASS caregiver letters in English and Spanish ensure that families know how to best support their child.
We recommend reviewing this “Protecting Kids Online” article by the Federal Trade Commission, addressing digital safety.
How to get help
Have a question about Amplify mCLASS Lectura?
Read our caregiver guide or visit our help library to search for articles with answers to your program questions.
For additional curriculum support, contact your student’s teacher.
Complete K–8 math assessment system
Expect more from your assessments with mCLASS® Math, a brand-new benchmarking and progress-monitoring assessment system.
mCLASS Math represents the next generation in math assessment. It provides educators not only with reliable measures of student achievement but also with an asset-based approach that analyzes student responses to reveal underlying mathematical thinking. The Student Thinking Report provides actionable insight insight into how they think, so teachers can confidently plan both whole-class instruction and targeted intervention.
About mCLASS Math
The reliable benchmark and progress-monitoring assessments of mCLASS Math evaluates student performance against grade-level expectations and growth throughout the year. The digital program seamlessly integrates with intervention and core instruction, providing rich, actionable, data-driven recommendations on where and how to support learning. The program empowers you to leverage your students’ strengths with features like:
- Reliable measures of student achievement and asset-based reporting that analyzes student responses to reveal underlying mathematical thinking.
- A powerful digital benchmarking and progress monitoring assessment system.
- Actionable recommendations aligned across skills and core instruction with instructional resources.
mCLASS Math will be available for the 2025–26 school year for grades K–5, and for the 2026–27 school year for grades 6–8.
Access deeper insights into students’ understanding.
mCLASS Math provides insights not only on what students know about grade-level math, but also into how they think. By leaning on students’ individual strengths and strategies, teachers can confidently differentiate instruction and plan future intervention.
The asset-based approach of mCLASS Math benchmarking and progress monitoring gives teachers peace of mind that students are making meaningful progress in their math development. The system recognizes that all students have their own ways of thinking. Their individual strengths, experiences, understandings, and strategies—or assets, as we collectively refer to them— inform the robust data that powers mCLASS Math.
mCLASS Benchmark
- Is administered digitally to the whole class three times a year (BOY, MOY, EOY) for growth measure.
- Allows teachers to see student work in real time throughout assessments.
- Includes diagnostic capabilities to further target Tier 2 & Tier 3 intervention areas.
- Identifies the specific areas of strengths and development to inform differentiation.
- Provides support and flags for potential risk of dyscalculia.
mCLASS Progress Monitoring
- Helps teachers monitor a student’s math performance with a 15-minute assessment between mCLASS Benchmark assessments.
- Informs teachers if tiered interventions require adjustment to improve student learning.
Validated by research
We’re thrilled to announce that mCLASS Math is undergoing an official third-party study conducted by WestEd, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency. This in-depth validation analysis aligns with our commitment to transparency, data-driven enhancement, and providing the most effective educational tools for our users. The findings of this study will be available by fall 2025. Stay tuned to learn how mCLASS Math will revolutionize your math assessment experience.
Data informs
instruction.
The integrated insights and intervention recommendations of mCLASS Math empower teachers to implement timely scaffolds and targeted intervention when needed. Following screening and progress monitoring, teachers can differentiate when, where, and how it matters most with customizable, high-impact resources to support all learners.
One integrated math solution
Amplify’s comprehensive math suite, Amplify Desmos Math, provides seamless alignment to help teachers diagnose and capitalize on student strengths, foster deep investment, and build student agency.
Everything is in one place—with screening and progress monitoring, core instruction, integrated personalized learning, and embedded intervention teachers can trust.
Desmos Classroom
Desmos Classroom is a free teaching and learning platform that places student engagement at the center of instruction.
Desmos Classroom features free lessons, lesson-
building tools, sharing features, and more. Built by
math educators, the platform makes differentiation
in real-time easier for teachers—personalizing instruction for students in real-time.
Create your teacher account
on teacher.desmos.com.
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An authentic Spanish assessment built specifically for bilingual students learning to read
Part of the mCLASS® Español suite, mCLASS Lectura is a universal screener for K–6 built on modern Spanish literacy research. It helps educators accelerate reading growth for Spanish-speaking students by delivering complete parity between English and Spanish reading assessments. Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.
Addressing the classroom inequities Spanish-speaking students face in early literacy
Spanish-speaking students have been underserved and misclassified for decades. By combining mCLASS Lectura and mCLASS® DIBELS® 8th Edition, you’ll be able to understand where your Spanish-speaking students are in their English and Spanish literacy paths.
Based on the science behind how students learn to read in English and Spanish, the mCLASS system allows teachers to connect with their Spanish-speaking students face-to-face, one-on-one, and in the language most comfortable to them. Teachers are able to pinpoint where their Spanish-speaking or emergent bilingual students really are in their literacy skill development and what instruction to prioritize.
Built by leading biliteracy experts
The mCLASS® Lectura universal screener was co-developed with the Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of Oregon. The assessment was validated by Amplify in partnership with Dr. Lillian Durán of the University of Oregon.
The development of mCLASS Lectura also involved a team of nationally recognized experts representing a range of regions (Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean), along with focus groups featuring classroom teachers, special education teachers, specialists, and administrators.
Our approach
Aligned to the Science of Reading, mCLASS Lectura allows teachers to connect with their students through observational assessment and in the language most comfortable to them. We built mCLASS Lectura so that when used in tandem with mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition, educators can achieve complete parity between English and Spanish literacy skills.
Complete parity between English and Spanish
mCLASS Lectura is an authentic Spanish assessment that delivers complete parity when combined with mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition, including parallel reporting across English and Spanish assessments and unique dual-language reporting.
Listen to your students read in both languages, one-on-one
mCLASS Lectura provides teacher-administered assessments in Spanish that deliver accurate and reliable measurements of each student’s literacy progress.
Built from the latest research in Spanish literacy development
mCLASS Lectura is a high-quality assessment that accounts for the major differences between English and Spanish, not simply a direct translation or transadaptation between the two languages.
Transfer skills in one language to the other
By providing teachers with insights into the skill areas in which their students are proficient, in their native language, the program helps Spanish-speakers build on their strengths and make connections to their second language. Educators also receive guidance on the cross-linguistic transfer of critical skills in both languages.
Learn about the classroom inequities
Spanish-speaking students face and
how educators can address it.
What’s included
mCLASS Lectura includes one-minute measures validated for universal and dyslexia screening, and provides dual language reports for teachers and administrators.
Comprehensive Spanish literacy measures in mCLASS Lectura
mCLASS Lectura is validated to assess for all key foundational skills for K–6, including:
- Letter Naming
- Phonological Awareness
- Alphabetic Principle
- Fluency
- Comprehension
Reports in English and Spanish
mCLASS Lectura analyzes Spanish literacy and English literacy development side by side, enabling you to see where kids are in both languages. Learn more about mCLASS Lectura reporting.
Instructional activities to build Spanish literacy skills
With mCLASS Lectura, educators get hundreds of step-by-step instructional activities for small groups or individual students and receive effective activities to target the Spanish literacy skills with which students need the most support.
Comprehensive reporting
mCLASS Lectura provides reporting for everyone at all levels, from classroom teachers and literacy specialists to principals and district leaders, as well as parents and guardians at home. Learn more about mCLASS Lectura reporting.
Detailed assessment data
mCLASS Lectura provides transcripts of every assessment and identifies error patterns to help educators make instructional decisions for students on the skills they need to work on the most. The program also includes letters with student assessment results and analysis to send home or to use as a basis for discussion at conferences.
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We’re using critical components of biliteracy learning to bring equity to classrooms.
Early literacy assessment & intervention, grounded in the Science of Reading
mCLASS is an all-in-one system for Science of Reading-based universal screening, dyslexia screening, and progress monitoring. Powered by DIBELS® 8th Edition, mCLASS helps you measure and strengthen the foundational skills that all students need to become confident readers.
What is mCLASS?
mCLASS, the only digital provider of DIBELS 8th edition assessments, provides universal screening, dyslexia screening and progress monitoring to assess your students on their reading trajectory and what skills they need to develop.
You’ll observe students as they form sounds or read words and text. Then, mCLASS instantly scores and analyzes student response patterns to provide you with diagnostic data and instructional focus for each student and group.
With mCLASS, you’ll have everything you need to support every type of learner in your classroom, including advanced learners, multilingual learners, and students with signs of dyslexia.
Gold-standard DIBELS 8th Edition assessments
Developed in partnership with the University of Oregon, mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition is founded on the strongest-ever research base for predicting reading proficiency, including identifying those at risk for dyslexia.
For more than 30 years, the University of Oregon has led the research behind DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills). mCLASS is the only licensed digital provider of the evidence-based DIBELS 8th Edition assessment. See more of our research.
Our approach
mCLASS provides rich data to help you match Science of Reading-based instruction with your students’ precise needs. You’ll be able to monitor the effectiveness of instruction and make timely decisions when students or classrooms need extra support.
Grounded in the Science of Reading
From phonics to fluency and comprehension, mCLASS assesses the skills that are most critical for students to become successful readers. Once students are assessed, you’ll have the data you need to drive instructional decisions at the classroom, school, and district level.
- Data you can trust, with teacher-administered assessments
- Skill-level data aligned with the Science of Reading
- Data-driven instructional recommendations to support intervention, remediation, and enrichment
Precise, trustworthy data through direct observation
Our approach to assessment is focused on providing you with immediate insights you can trust. Through direct observation of students and detailed reports, including assessment transcripts and diagnostic error patterns, you’ll have total transparency into each student’s performance.
Instant analysis and next steps
With mCLASS, you can interpret and act on data in real time with instant instructional guidance based on benchmark and progress-monitoring results. In one click, teachers can access differentiated skill-based groups and targeted resources to develop students’ foundational literacy skills.
A complete picture of English and Spanish biliteracy
Amplify’s Spanish language assessment, mCLASS Lectura, works in tandem with DIBELS 8th Edition’s English assessments to highlight areas of growth as students develop into bilingual readers. mCLASS Lectura provides complete parity with English mCLASS assessments in grade coverage (K–6), skill coverage, instructional tools, and reporting.
What’s included
The mCLASS program includes quick assessments of critical reading skills, real-time reporting, and data-driven instructional recommendations.
Efficient one-minute measures
DIBELS 8th Edition’s predictive one-minute assessments of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and comprehension are proven to identify risk as early as possible.
- Phonological awareness
- Alphabetic principle/phonics
- Reading fluency
- Reading accuracy
- Reading comprehension
Early detection of dyslexia symptoms
With mCLASS, you can efficiently screen students and assess the full range of skills linked to dyslexia risk factors at the same time. mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition and mCLASS Lectura are both validated as dyslexia screeners for English and Spanish, with additional Vocabulary, Spelling, RAN, and Language Comprehension measures available at no additional cost.
Progress monitoring and goal setting
To help you target the right skills and areas of instruction, mCLASS recommends progress-monitoring measures and automatically sets meaningful, attainable goals for each student. Our Zones of Growth goal setting framework examines your student’s DIBELS scores to predict the rate of growth they need to reach end-of-year goals.
- Automatic progress monitoring recommendations
- Customizable goals
- Semester and full-year growth reports
Differentiated instruction for all students
Our library of more than 500 evidence-based activities makes it easy to plan lessons that reinforce your core instruction. The embedded professional development supports consider the diverse language backgrounds of all students and provide cross-linguistic transfer and language variety guidance to inform phonological awareness instruction.
One-of-a-kind dual language reporting
When you use mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition with mCLASS Lectura, you can identify and develop students’ English and Spanish literacy skills regardless of your own Spanish-language proficiency. With the dual language report, you can see a side-by-side view of students’ assessment results and receive instructional guidance based on the data.
Educator and caregiver reports
Easy-to-use reports, ranging from classroom-level to school- and district-wide, help you evaluate each student’s reading skills over time and pinpoint exactly when a change in instruction is needed.
To reinforce learning at home, the Home Connect feature provides letters to caregivers about their child’s reading development in English and Spanish, and includes activities for reinforcement at home or on the go.
Instructional alignment across all tiers
Amplify’s early literacy system ensures that you have all the core, intervention, and personalized instruction you need to support each stage of a student’s literacy journey. mCLASS data drives placement into mCLASS Intervention and Boost Reading personalized learning. It also recommends core instruction resources within Amplify CKLA core curriculum based on the skills in which students need additional practice.
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