One of the most common questions that educators get asked (by parents, by school leaders, by themselves!) is if their students read on grade level. To answer this, English/Language Arts teachers often conduct benchmark assessments of students’ reading abilities.  Here at Shoelace, we make this easy, by providing a Reading Comprehension Report on the Shoelace dashboard. This report highlights each player’s current Reading Comprehension Level, or RCL.  What is a Reading Comprehension Level or RCL? RCLs are grade-level equivalents. The whole number shown represents the grade, while the number after the decimal is their progress towards the next grade. For example, a student reading at a 4.1 has a reading ability that equates with an early-year fourth grade student. A student with an RCL of 4.8 has a reading ability that equates with where a student should be near the end of their fourth grade year. Reading Comprehension Levels are