Phonics skills are the foundation every student needs to become a successful reader. The latest Star Phonics enhancements make it easier to efficiently assess basic phonics skills and pinpoint areas that require further instruction, while the enhanced user experience simplifies workflows and boosts productivity for educators.
Read on to learn more about these new enhancements and how they support educators while improving students’ reading proficiency.
1. New measures
Educators can now identify student strengths in alphabet knowledge with new measures that assess letter names and sounds, in upper and lowercase, helping to pinpoint areas for improvement before moving to more complex phonics skills.
2. Streamlined user experience
The latest Star Phonics enhancements are designed to optimize the user experience, making tasks quicker and more efficient for educators. These updates improve navigation, flexibility, and reporting, all while helping educators focus on what matters most—student success:
- Streamline the phonics assessment experience with an interface consistent with Star Assessments and streamlined navigation, designed to make tasks quicker and easier.
- Customize scope and sequence at the grade level, providing greater flexibility across schools with varying curricula.
- Manage and administer tests for consecutive students more efficiently with reduced setup time and improved navigation.
- Create student groups to organize students for small group instruction or targeted intervention, or to view data for specific subsets across reports.
- View a quick snapshot of class performance on key measures with the new homepage.
- Explore reports with an enhanced, user-friendly design to easily analyze screening and diagnostic results.
These enhancements are the latest efforts to help educators improve their overall efficiency, better support their students’ foundational literacy skills, and ensure every student receives the targeted phonics instruction they need to be a successful reader.