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Nazareth Area School District Assessments
Elementary Schools (K-4)
Kindergarten
Content Area
Name of Assessment
Why?
What does it measure?
English Language Arts
Star Early Literacy
Universal Screener and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: alphabetic principle, concept of word, phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, structural analysis, vocabulary, and early numeracy
Sight Words
Automaticity and fluency of sight words
Grade 1
Content Area
Name of Assessment
Why?
What does it measure?
English Language Arts
Star Reading
Universal Screener and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: phonics, comprehension, structural analysis, vocabulary, and provides an estimated oral reading fluency score and an estimated reading level (lexile score)
Star Early Literacy
(for students not yet reading)
Universal Screener and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: alphabetic principle, concept of word, phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, structural analysis, vocabulary, and early numeracy
Math
Star Math Universal Screener and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: computation and applications (word problems)
Grade 2
Content Area
Name of Assessment
Why?
What does it measure?
English Language Arts
Star ReadingUniversal Screener and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: phonics, comprehension, structural analysis, vocabulary, and provides an estimated oral reading fluency score and an estimated reading level (lexile score)
Math
Star Math
Universal Screener and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: computation and applications (word problems)
Grade 3
Content Area
Name of Assessment
Why?
What does it measure?
ELA
Star Reading
Universal Screener, PSSA Benchmarker, and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: phonics, comprehension, structural analysis, vocabulary, and provides an estimated oral reading fluency score and an estimated reading level (lexile score)
PSSA ELA
Provide students, parents, and educators with an understanding of student and school performance
Use the results to examine which school programs enable students to attain proficiency of academic standards
Math
Star Math
Universal Screener, PSSA Benchmarker, and Progress Monitor
Areas covered: computation and applications (word problems)
PSSA Math
Provide students, parents, and educators with an understanding of student and school performance
Use the results to examine which school programs enable students to attain proficiency of academic standards
Grade 4
Content Area
Name of Assessment
Why?
What does it measure?
ELA
Star Reading
Universal Screener, PSSA Benchmarking, and Progress Monitoring
Areas covered: phonics, comprehension, structural analysis, vocabulary, and an estimated reading level (lexile score)
PSSA ELA
Provide students, parents, and educators with an understanding of student and school performance.
Use the results to examine which school programs enable students to attain proficiency of academic standards.
Math
Star Math
Universal Screener, PSSA Benchmarking, and Progress Monitoring
Areas covered: computation and applications (word problems)
PSSA Math
Provide students, parents, and educators with an understanding of student and school performance.
Use the results to examine which school programs enable students to attain proficiency of academic standards.
Science
PSSA Science
Provide students, parents, and educators with an understanding of student and school performance.
Use the results to examine which school programs enable students to attain proficiency of academic standards.