Acadience Reading is an assessment tool which Clermont Northeastern Elementary uses to see which students are meeting reading benchmarks and which students will need additional levels of support.
Screening assessments are administered three times a year (fall, winter, and spring) and are used to help plan and differentiate our instruction for all students. Students are also given smaller and more frequent assessments known as progress monitoring that help determine if instruction is working towards helping each student grow in their reading skills.
Here are the assessments that are given in each grade level:
Kindergarten
Phoneme Segmentation (PSF)
The PSF measure assesses a student's ability to segment three- and four-phoneme words into their individual phonemes fluently. The PSF measure has been found to be a good predictor of later reading achievement (Kaminski & Good, 1996). The PSF task is administered by the examiner orally presenting words of three to four phonemes. The student then to verbally produces the individual phonemes in each word.
First Sound Fluency (FSF)
FSF measures how well a student can hear and produce the initial sounds in words. Each administration includes up to 30 stimulus words presented verbally by the examiner. The assessor scores each response with 2, 1, or 0 points: A correct, isolated initial sound receives 2 points, initial sounds or blends receive 1 point, and an incorrect sound receives no points. The assessor continues to present words for up to one minute, or until all 30 words have been presented.
First Grade
First Sound Fluency (FSF)
FSF measures how well a student can hear and produce the initial sounds in words. Each administration includes up to 30 stimulus words presented verbally by the examiner. The assessor scores each response with 2, 1, or 0 points: A correct, isolated initial sound receives 2 points, initial sounds or blends receive 1 point, and an incorrect sound receives no points. The assessor continues to present words for up to one minute, or until all 30 words have been presented.
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) measure assesses alphabetic principles including letter-sound correspondence in which letters represent their most common sounds and of the ability to blend letters into words in which letters represent their most common sounds (Kaminski & Good, 1996). The student is presented randomly ordered VC and CVC nonsense words (e.g., sig, rav, ov) and asked to verbally produce the individual letter sounds in each word, or read the whole word.
Second through Fifth Grades
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
ORF is a standardized, individually administered test of accuracy and fluency with connected text. Student performance is measured by having students read a passage aloud for one minute. Words omitted, substituted, and hesitations of more than three seconds are scored as errors. Words self-corrected within three seconds are scored as accurate. The number of correct words per minute is the oral reading fluency score.