Acadience Reading Testing
Acadience Reading Testing
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Reading and math are critical subjects. Because they are so important, we do testing 3 times a year to track how students are improving.
Acadience benchmark reading goals tell us how well students are staying on track with their reading skills.
Select a link to the right to see how your student should be doing!
Benchmark Goals
Benchmark Goals
Test Types and Descriptions
Test Types and Descriptions
First Sound Fluency (FSF)
First Sound Fluency (FSF)
GRADE K/ 1 Minute
A student listens to a word and repeats the first sound. This measures the student’s phonological awareness, or the ability to hear critical sounds in the spoken word.
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)
Grade K-1/ 1 minute
Grade A student listens to a word and repeats the first sound. This measures the student’s phonological awareness, or the ability to hear critical sounds in the spoken word.
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF)
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF)
GRADES K-1/ 1 minute
A student listens to a word with three or four phonemes. The student then states each phoneme. This measures the student’s phonological awareness through the direct assessment of their ability to segment a spoken word into sound segments.
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
GRADES K-2/ 1 minute
A student is presented with a list of nonsense words (e.g., "pov") and reads them aloud. This measures the student’s ability to make letter sound correspondences and the ability to blend letter sounds into words.
**Descriptions of these tests were obtained from Michigan Technical Assistance Center.
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
GRADES 1-6/ 3 minutes total reading/ 3 minutes total retell
A student reads aloud from a passage for one minute as each word said correctly is tallied. This measures advanced phonics and word attack skills, accurate and fluent reading of connected text, and reading comprehension. There are two components to ORF: part one is oral reading fluency and part two is passage retell.
MAZE
MAZE
GRADES 3-6/ 3 Minutes
Students silently read passages with missing words and identify what word should appear. The student chooses from a list of three options for each missing word. The assessment measures the student's ability to construct meaning from text using word recognition skills, background information and prior knowledge, familiarity with linguistic properties such as syntax and morphology, and cause and effect reasoning skills.
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