What: This book combines the Literacy and Mathematics Proficiency Scales with suggested assessment activities. It is designed to help teachers assess students' proficiency in the Utah Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics. Teachers may use the suggested activities or substitute their own assessments, including those from HMH Into Reading or i-Ready.

Why: The purposes of the assessments are to:

• Provide activities to observe students’ progress toward developmentally and educationally significant goals.

• Help document the progress of each student.

• Assist in providing information for parents, teachers, and administrators

• Report Card

When: The book is organized into quarters, with each section outlining the standards that will be assessed for the report card. 

Characteristics of a Granite Graduate 

Kindergarten Friendly Characteristics of a Granite Graduate

What: Acadience Math is a state-mandated universal screening assessment designed to identify students who may need additional support and to measure the effectiveness of interventions over time.

How: Acadience Math is done on the ALO platform (training link). Check with your school coach for set up and training. USBE offers a Canvas course- Acadience Math Adminstration Training. Click here to enroll. 

When: It is administered at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. Refer to the district assessment calendar for specific testing dates. 

Why: Screener mandated by state legislation in K-3 to identify students who may need support or intervention in addition to effective Tier 1 instruction. 

Progress Monitor: Progress monitoring is not mandated by the state for math. It provides data to monitor student progress and examine effectiveness of instructional support of a math intervention. If using progress monitoring, only monitor the students within an intervention and use only one measure in Acadience Math which will provide the data needed to monitor the intervention's effectiveness.  How to enroll in ALO progress monitoring.

ALO Training link      Acadience Website to print materials 

What: Acadience Reading is a state-mandated universal screening assessment designed to identify students who may need additional support and to measure the effectiveness of interventions over time. 

How: Acadience Reading is done on the ALO platform (training link). Check with your school coach for set up and training. For a paper version of Acadience reading, go to Acadience Website.

When: It is administered at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. Refer to the district assessment calendar for specific testing dates. 

Why: Screener mandated by state legislation in K-3 to identify students who may need support or intervention in addition to effective Tier 1 instruction.

Progress Monitor: After each assessment period (beginning/middle) students must be progress monitored according to the following: 

Red/Well Below-every 1-2 weeks

Yellow/Below- ever 2-4 weeks

Green/At- every 4 weeks

Blue/Above- at least once between benchmarks 

Check with your literacy coach for the state dates for progress monitoring. 

The purposes of progress monitoring are:

• to provide ongoing feedback about the effectiveness of instruction,

• to determine students’ progress toward important and meaningful goals, and

• to make timely decisions about changes to instruction so that students will meet those goals.

How to enroll in ALO progress monitoring.

What: This screener is administered one-on-one at the beginning of the school year to help form classes and establish a baseline of each child's skills as they enter kindergarten.

How: Parents will bring students in for an appointment with the teacher. This is one-on-one teacher with the student. 

When: It is conducted during the first three days of school, with each child assessed individually during their scheduled appointment. 

Why: The screener is mandated for all kindergarten students entering Granite District. The data can assist in creating classes and small groups at the beginning of the year and is a baseline for the Milestone data.

Note: If your school has decided to give Acadience Reading and/or Acadience Math during the Kindergarten Screener testing appointment, you can access printable materials on the  Acadience Website.

What: An adaptive assessment of standards in 4 math domains (number & operations, algebraic thinking, measurement & data, and geometry) which generates several reports identifying individual student performance and next steps with supporting instructional resources. The i-Ready Diagnostic is a computer-adaptive assessment that adjusts the difficulty of questions based on each student's responses, providing a personalized measure of their proficiency. Correct answers lead to more challenging questions, while incorrect answers lead to easier ones. becomes harder with correct answers and easier with incorrect ones. About half the questions challenge the student, while the other half match their current level. This process pinpoints their exact skill level. After each Diagnostic, the data is used to update learning game levels, Personalized Instruction ("My Path") lessons, and teacher reports.

How: This is done on the computer. It is recommended to administer the diagnostic in 15-20 minute blocks over 3-5 days.

Why: All schools are required to administer the i-Ready Diagnostic for math. If your school has access to the i-Ready program for reading, it is recommended to administer the reading diagnostic as well.

When: The assessment is given at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. Refer to the district assessment calendar for specific testing dates. 

Prepare: By setting a schedule and sharing the Diagnostic Introduction slides with students. Review Kindergarten Digital Readiness tips and Tips from iReady on getting good data. These iReady slides can be used to prepare students for the BOY diagnostic,  these iReady slides can be used prior to all subsequent diagnostic testing. The Diagnostic must be completed within 21 days of when the student begins, or it will be reset and the student will have to start over. Students must get through the introduction of tools and begin answering the first question to save their progress as they test.