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2023 Wisconsin Act 20 requires that all children are assessed in the early reading skills of alphabet knowledge, letter sound knowledge, phonemic awareness, and decoding. These skills are assessed differently depending on the student’s grade level:
● Alphabet knowledge: Knowing the names of printed letters.
● Letter sound knowledge: Knowing the sounds of printed letters.
● Phonemic awareness: Hearing , saying, and manipulating individual sounds in spoken words.
● Decoding skills: Connecting sounds to written letters to read printed words.
● Oral vocabulary: Understanding the meanings of words when speaking or listening.
The aimswebPlus reading screeners that measure the skills above are based on a student’s grade level:
● Letter naming fluency (5K): Measures a student’s knowledge of upper-and lower-case letters. Your child will have one minute to say the names of visually presented upper-and lowercase letters that they know.
● Letter word sounds fluency (4K-1st grade): Measures a student’s letter sound knowledge. Your child will have one minute to say the sounds of visually presented letters, syllables, and words that they know.
● Initial sounds (4K-5K): Measures a student’s phonemic awareness. Your child will be provided a page with four pictures. Your child will be asked to either point to a picture of a word that matches the initial sound the teacher says or make the initial sound of a word spoken by the teacher. This assessment will take 2-3 minutes.
● Phoneme segmentation (1st grade): Measures a student’s phonemic awareness. Your child will listen to a word that is spoken by the teacher and then say each sound they hear in the word. This assessment will take 2-3 minutes.
● Auditory vocabulary (5K-1st grade): Measures a student’s knowledge of words commonly found in 5-year old Kindergarten and Grade 1 reading materials. Your child will match a picture to an orally presented word. This assessment will take 2-4 minutes.
● Vocabulary (2nd- 3rd grade): Measures a student’s knowledge of the meanings of grade-appropriate words. Your child will choose the meaning of target words by selecting from multiple choice options. This is an untimed, computerized assessment that typically takes 4-7minutes.
● Oral reading fluency (1st-3rd grade): Measures a student’s decoding skills. Your child will read two stories aloud, each for one minute.
The FastBridge system is a set of assessments that teachers use to measure student learning. FastBridge scores help teachers to know what kind of instruction each student needs. With the FastBridge Family Report, you can see your student’s performance compared to other students in their district — and across the country. The report also shows how your child’s FastBridge scores have changed over time. We are currently using FastBridge 3 times per year to screen 4K-3rd grade math as well as 4th-8th grade reading and math skills.
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