Get valid and reliable early literacy data in minutes
Renaissance Star Early Literacy is a computer-adaptive assessment, using sophisticated item calibration and psychometrics to adjust dynamically to each child’s unique responses. The tests can be taken at any time throughout the year and as often as results are required.
Fast: You can screen your entire class in as little as 20 minutes to reveal which children need help to reach benchmarks and to group children by proficiency levels.
Actionable: Meet all your testing needs in one assessment, generating concise reports on screening, benchmarking, child growth and progress monitoring to inform planning.
Star Early Literacy identifies children’s command of key literacy skills
Immediate feedback
Star Early Literacy provides immediate and reliable feedback on the progress of your emerging readers to help you better plan your instruction and practice. Teachers love the speed and ease of use of Star Early Literacy.
Diagnose difficulties and plan instruction. Identify what skills children are proficient in, or excelling at, and where intervention may be needed.
Assess early literacy and numeracy. Accurately and reliably assess 41 skill sets in ten key literacy and numeracy domains.
Generate reliable data on every child. Screening and progress-monitoring data that make it easy for you to set priorities for instruction and intervention.
Improve parent communications. Parent reports help you explain test results and describe what a child needs for optimal reading growth.
Using Accelerated Reader with children not yet ready for Star Reading
Reading T.W.O. is a method for using Star Early Literacy to track a child’s reading progress in comprehension skills as well as general reading skills to help identify when they have sufficient skills to read independently. Click here to learn more.
The data produced by Star is superb. The tests are child friendly and don’t last too long. The big bonus for teachers is the information on where the children performed best and which areas needed further improvement. This information was taken on board and fed into planners.
Leo McCloskey
Vice Principal, Termoncanice Primary School
Learn more about Star Early Literacy
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Star Early Literacy is available by subscription and quotations are tailored to each school or Trust’s specific needs and requirements.