DIRECTIONS

1. Click the STAR test button above

2. Click "I'm a student"

3. Login with your student's login information -------------->

4. Be sure YOUR STUDENT'S name is in the top right corner of the screen

5. Click the blue STAR test button on the home screen

6. The monitor password is "admin"

7. The test will begin after you submit the monitor password.

8. When the test finishes, just click the blue "okay" button. The teacher will receive results after that :)

TYPICAL LOGIN: student's first initial followed by first 4 letters of last name

TYPICAL PASSWORD: first and last initial

Example for John Anderson

username: jande

password: ja

*if this does not work, try adding a 1 to the end of the username

• Once the test has started, students should take the test on their own, without help.

• Why Can't I Help My Student? - This test is meant to assess student reading levels which is why we want students to sound out unknown words without help. If they don't know what a word means, I encourage students to use clues in the sentence to try to figure it out. If a question is really tough, I tell students just to make their best guess. Some questions WILL be too tough for them, so just tell them to try their very best.

• Timed Test: The questions are timed, so if the clock icon appears at the top of the screen, students can just make their best guess and move on.

• Submitting Each Answer: If you don't see a button to submit each answer in the test, you may need to scroll down on the screen (or press and hold CTRL, then hit the " - " key)