Our Universal Screeners

The State of New Jersey enacted legislation requiring all school districts to screen students at least twice per year in kindergarten through grade three. In alignment with this mandate, HVRSD administers literacy screening tools three times per year in the fall, winter, and spring. If a child’s screening results indicate a need for additional support, the school will provide appropriate interventions, which may include additional instruction or further assessments. 

aimswebPlus:  Pearson

HVRSD utilizes aimswebPlus as a universal screening, benchmarking, and progress-monitoring tool to assess literacy proficiency in grades K-3.  These assessments help identify students who are meeting benchmarks, as well as those who may need additional support.

The aimswebPlus assessment tool offers nationally-normed, skills-based benchmark assessments and progress monitoring integrated into one application across reading domains. This tool provides growth results to caregivers in reading achievement using curriculum-based assessment and standards-aligned content for students in K-3.  

TOPA-2+: Test of Phonological Awareness-Second Edition:  Pro-Ed

The TOPA-2+ is a norm-referenced assessment for children ages 5 to 8, designed to measure phonological awareness and early reading skills. This assessment is given to all children in the median year of Kindergarten and to new students in grades 1 & 2 that did not receive the assessment in Kindergarten. 

Assessing Reading Multiple Measures:  Core Learning

CORE Phonological Segmentation Test:  This assessment given in Grades K–1, assesses phonological segmentation through three parts: Sentences into Words, Words into Syllables, and Words into Phonemes.

CORE Phoneme Deletion Test:  This assessment given in Grades 2-3, includes phoneme deletion tasks arranged in order of difficulty.