Cloquet Middle School, MN used ReadBasix to identify the root cause of students' reading challenges and implement targeted, word-level interventions.
302
students followed for 3 years
37%71%
Word Recognition & Decoding
58%78%
Reading Comprehension
Cloquet had screeners, interventions, and committed staff, but still couldn’t improve outcomes.
“For years, we believed we were doing the right things. A hard truth is that our data wasn’t telling us what students actually needed to learn to grow as readers.”
The district realized it was “chasing data” across multiple initiatives without being able to diagnose.
“In the past, we used screeners to identify which students needed intervention the most, but we could never pinpoint the root cause of their reading challenges. ReadBasix has helped us understand what our readers need, so that we can align their interventions with their needs.”
Cloquet reframed its MTSS literacy system through the Simple View of Reading and began using Capti ReadBasix to distinguish students' foundational skill needs from broader comprehension challenges.
“Cloquet used the data to make smarter decisions about who needed which kind of support —rather than assuming that the largest area of need was automatically the right instructional target.”
Tier 3 → Tier 2 → Tier 1 → Systems
| Year | Focus | Implementation |
|---|---|---|
| 23-24 | Tier 3 | The district added a Tier 3 reading interventions class, providing phonemic awareness and phonics instruction for students flagged by ReadBasix as needing support. |
| 24-25 | Tier 2 | The district added multisyllabic-word-reading intervention for students flagged by ReadBasix as needing support and refined scheduling across the middle school. |
| 25-26 | Tier 1 | Core teachers embedded vocabulary, morphology, and multisyllabic-word-reading routines into instruction while intervention systems continued for Tiers 2 and 3. |
“The biggest shift was not just adding a new screener — it was using better reading data to build a more coherent system.”
See how Cloquet Middle and High School used Capti ReadBasix to align with the Minnesota READ Act and address foundational reading gaps. Presenters share data, experiences, and strategies for effective literacy intervention within the realities of secondary schedules and staffing.
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