Reading Assessments
Assessment is a key factor for guiding effective literacy instruction for all students.
By conducting a reading screener at key points in the school year, it is possible to determine if students are meeting benchmarks, ensuring that they are on track to become skilled, fluent readers.
A diagnostic reading assessment can then help determine students’ specific areas of strength and need in foundational reading skills. This data supports educators in tailoring instruction and devising appropriate intervention plans to meet each student’s needs.
For a more detailed explanation about reading assessment, click here.
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Reading screeners are brief, standardized measures that quickly and efficiently help to identify students who are at risk, but they do not reveal the root cause of a student’s difficulties.
Screening is like a blood pressure or temperature check. Abnormal results indicate a problem that require further diagnostic testing to understand the specific needs for students who fall below or well-below benchmarks.
For K-2 students in English programs, we will use Acadience Reading and for K-2 students in French Immersion programs, we will use Acadience Reading Français.
In this playlist of short videos, the ONlit team provides answers to pressing questions about screening. Click here to explore why measures are often timed, the link between oral reading fluency (ORF) measures and comprehension, and why these ORF measures are not decodable.
To access the website or for more information about Acadience Reading, click here.
French Immersion educators are to use the student booklets provided to them for completing the benchmark assessments.
Benchmark Assessments
Helfpul Reminders
This resource provides an overview of the Acadience Reading screener, how to access the printable benchmark and student materials on the website, what to do with the results, and more!
Please reach out to a Learning Coach for additional support.
This decision tree provides helpful information to make sense of reading screening and what to do next (in addition to digging deeper with a diagnostic reading assessment).
Follow these steps for accessing/printing benchmark materials.
Click here for helpful reminders about administering and scoring the Acadience Reading Screener.
To access the website or for more information about Acadience Reading Français, click here.
English educators will complete benchmark assessments digitally by logging on to their ALO dashboard.
Booklets & Student Materials
Kindergarten
Grade 1
Grade 2
Use this tracking sheet to organize your Acadience Reading Français data/results.
Acadience Reading Français
Benchmark Tracking Sheet
Reading Screening Tools
Acadience Screener Overview for Grades 3-6
Core Phonics Survey
The ORID Protocol is a helpful process for analyzing data with guiding questions. It begins with the objective level and slowly moves to the reflective, interpretive, and decisional levels.
Core Phonics & UFLI Alignment Chart
Phare phonétique
Éclair
Reading Diagnostic Tools
Reading diagnostic tools allow educators to probe deeper in order to determine what specific, foundational reading skills are missing.
These tools are crucial for supporting educators in designing targeted literacy instruction and interventions.
The CORE Phonics Survey is the diagnostic tool used for students in our English classrooms, while the Phare phonétique (or Éclair) is the diagnostic tool used with students in our French Immersion classrooms.
To determine a student’s strengths and needs in early reading skills and to tailor intervention support to meet their needs, the teacher can conduct reading diagnostic assessment. The resulting data can then be used to target intervention support.
For additional information about tiered intervention supports, visit the Early Reading Skills page.
ORID Protocol For Data Analysis
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