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Quickly measure Pre-K‒3 students’ early literacy and early numeracy skills with a computer-adaptive assessment designed just for young learners. For universal screening, progress monitoring, goal setting, and more. Administer in-person or remotely.
AWARD-WINNING ASSESSMENT FOR K–3 LEARNERS
Give your Pre-K‒3 students their best start with a literacy and numeracy assessment designed to help you confidently guide every student towards reading proficiency, whether students are learning in-person, remotely, or a combination of both.
Assessment shouldn’t be stressful—for either students or teachers. Star Early Literacy makes it easy for kids to take tests and easy for educators to get the results.
Students use computers or tablets. Demonstration videos, practice items, audio supports, and graphics help get a true measure of students’ early literacy skills.
Guide all students towards reading proficiency with insightful reports that show you the skills students know and the skills they are ready to work on next.
COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED ASSESSMENTS
Renaissance connects assessment, instruction, and practice to give educators reliable data and valuable insights to support early learners as they develop the foundational skills they need to succeed.
When students are ready to transition to independent reading, they can seamlessly move from Star Early Literacy to Star Reading, providing an uninterrupted view of Pre-K–12 growth. These two assessments share the same unified scale, so scores are comparable—and you can even see data from the two tests in a single report!
The student experience
Star Early Literacy measures students’ understanding of the alphabetic principle and print concepts, as well as their ability to identify and discriminate between letters (visual discrimination).
Students demonstrate their phonemic awareness by rhyming, blending, and segmenting words, word parts, and phonemes; identifying and discriminating between sounds; and manipulating phonemes.
Star Early Literacy measures students’ understanding of sound-symbol correspondence, long and short vowels, beginning and ending consonants, word families (onset and rime), consonant blends and digraphs, and more.
Students show their word knowledge by matching words to pictures, identifying synonyms and antonyms, categorizing words, differentiating multi-meaning words, and analyzing word structures such as affixes and suffixes.
Star Early Literacy assesses students’ comprehension of sentences and paragraphs, both orally and through reading. Items also ask students to answer literal or inferential questions about passages.
POWERFUL ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Not yet available in Spanish
Reading Foundational Skills and Language Assessed
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Phonics and Word Recognition
Fluency
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use*
Not yet available in Spanish
Numbers and Operations* Skills Assessed
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Measurement and Data
Not yet available in Spanish
Star Assessments provide a very precise picture of current skill levels… Star Assessments use color-coded displays as well as at-risk criteria, which can be altered, to illustrate important data. In Star Assessments, it’s easy to see those changes, monitor growth, and set criteria for making decisions.
Scott Johnson • Educational Consultant, Plaquemines Parish Schools
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