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This article applies to the following products:
- Imagine MyPath Math
- Imagine MyPath Reading
Imagine MyPath uses Smart Sequencer to determine the lessons in each student's learning path. Smart Sequencer uses assessment results and student performance to identify grade-level skills and prerequisite skills.
How Imagine MyPath prioritizes content
Imagine MyPath uses coherence mapping to identify the skills students need before they work on more advanced skills. Coherence mapping is a map of how skills connect across grade levels and domains.
- Reading: MyPath prioritizes comprehension of literary and informational texts. Reading skills are organized into progressions so students work on prerequisite skills before moving to more advanced skills.
- Math: MyPath prioritizes essential skills within each domain, such as number and operations, algebra, measurement and data, and geometry. Math skills are organized into progressions so students work on prerequisite skills before moving to more advanced concepts.
Early literacy bundles
Students who are two or more grade levels below in the Reading: Literature and/or Reading: Informational Text comprehension domains receive early literacy bundles. These bundles introduce strategies students can apply across the texts in the program.
MyPath assigns each bundle based on the student's next lesson. After a student completes a bundle, MyPath assigns the next bundle to prepare the student for a following lesson.
See Early literacy bundles in Imagine MyPath to learn which students receive early literacy bundles and view the lessons in each bundle.
How Imagine MyPath assigns content
MyPath uses a student's rostered grade level and assessed placement in each domain to determine the lessons in their learning path.
Students placed below grade level
When a student is placed below grade level in a domain, MyPath can include lower-grade lessons that address the prerequisite skills the student needs before working on more advanced content.
MyPath includes the lessons needed for a student's skill progression. Lessons that are not needed for the student's current progression are not included in the learning path.
The diagram below shows an example of a student learning path. The light blue lessons are not included because they are not needed for the student's skill progression. The remaining lessons provide the prerequisite skills the student needs before working on the grade-level skill.
Students placed above grade level
When a student is placed above grade level, MyPath begins with essential on-grade-level skills and then includes prioritized skills from higher grade levels.
Students do not receive lessons from grade levels higher than two grades above their rostered grade, even when their assessed placement is higher.
Learn more about domain placement and students' learning paths.
Assign additional content
You can use Assignment Builder to assign additional lessons or formatives that support classroom instruction, provide practice with specific skills, or extend student learning.
See Understanding the Assignment Builder in Imagine MyPath and Imagine+ Math to learn how to find content and create assignments for individual students, groups, or classes.