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Florida Assessment of Student Assessment & Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking
Florida Assessment of Student Assessment & Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking
Florida’s statewide, standardized assessments in English Language Arts (ELA) Reading, Writing, and Mathematics are aligned with the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards. The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST), which includes VPK through grade 10 ELA Reading and VPK through grade 8 Mathematics assessments, is administered as a progress monitoring assessment three times per year. B.E.S.T. assessments that are not part of the FAST progress monitoring program include grades 4–10 Writing and end-of-course (EOC) assessments in Algebra 1 and Geometry.
Parent Guides for ELA BEST Writing Information
i-Ready
i-Ready
i-Ready is an online program for reading and math that utilizes diagnostic results to drive personalize instruction based on your child's needs. Students can login through the VPortal and work on lessons anywhere they have access to the internet.
Being a Reader
Being a Reader
Being a Reader is a K–5 comprehensive reading curriculum by Collaborative Classroom. It combines foundational phonics and word recognition with language comprehension, independent reading, and explicit social skills instruction. The program uses whole-class shared reading, targeted small-group instruction, and independent work to fit varied student needs.
Oral Reading Flluency
Oral Reading Flluency
ORF is important because it is one critical component for reading comprehension; fluent readers can comprehend material because they are able to focus on the meaning of the words and not on decoding them. Teachers use students' ORF scores for progress-monitoring reading growth. Students read a prescribed passed aloud for one minute. The assessor takes into account errors (omitted words, substitutions, and hesitations for more than three seconds) to determine the number of correct words per minute.
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