Star Reading - Renaissance Australia

Renaissance Star Reading® provides interim data on students’ reading skills, so you can set goals, respond quickly to student needs, monitor progress, and maximise growth.

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Guide more reading growth in less time

Why spend more time on assessment than you need to? Get research-validated, state-specific learning data on students’ progress toward mastery of state standards, all in less than 20 minutes of testing time. Make informed decisions and personalize learning, all while having more time to connect with students.

Star Reading lights the path to grade-level mastery in literacy

Are students demonstrating mastery of state-specific reading standards? Star Reading gives you intuitive reports and at-a-glance data dashboards that track students’ path to mastery from the beginning to the end of the school year, and from year-to-year.

Beginning of school year

Get a baseline of students’ reading performance and set the stage for continuous improvement in key areas of literature and informational text. In less than 20 minutes of testing time, you’ll see which students are meeting benchmarks and who needs intervention. Then, set attainable goals and chart students’ path toward reading success.

Midyear and throughout

Measure students’ progress and pivot instruction as needed to ensure students are developing the skills needed to read proficiently and meet grade-level standards. Adjust instruction and guide continued growth with state-specific learning progressions that list the skills and sub-skills in a teachable order. Access a wide variety of resources to guide and differentiate instruction.

End-of-year

Measure proficiency and celebrate students’ mastery of state literacy standards. Prepare for continued growth next school year using achievement and growth scores including Percentile Rank (PR), Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE), and Student Growth Percentile (SGP).

Short assessments. Timely insights. Fast growth.

Renaissance acts on our ever-growing database of more than 2.7 billion practice and assessment data points to glean new insights and refine our solutions. Learning analytics and advances in learning science give us more precision to enable shorter assessments and continually fine-tune state-specific learning progressions.

Star Reading measures students’ understanding of multiple reading skills across a variety of domains

Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Inflectional Endings / Affixes

Fluency

  • Purpose of Reading / Reading with Comprehension

Reading: Literature

Key Ideas and Details

  • Character
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Summary
  • Inference and Evidence

Craft and Structure

  • Point of View
  • Structure of Literacy Text
  • Word Meaning
  • Connotation
  • Author’s Word Choice and Figurative Language

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  • Modes of Representation
  • Analysis and Comparison

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  • Range of Reading
  • Text Complexity

Reading Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

  • Prediction
  • Main Idea and Details
  • Inference and Evidence
  • Sequence
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Cause and Effect
  • Connections and Relationships
  • Summary

Craft and Structure

  • Text Features
  • Author’s Purpose and Perspective
  • Word Meaning
  • Organization
  • Author’s Word Choice and Figurative Language
  • Connotation

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  • Modes of Representation
  • Argumentation
  • Analysis and Comparison

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

  • Range of Reading
  • Text Complexity

Language

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

  • Word Relationships
  • Structural Analysis
  • Context Clues
  • Real-Life Word Connections and Applications
  • Vocabulary in Context
  • Antonyms
  • Multiple-Meaning Words
  • Synonyms
  • Word Reference Materials
  • Figures of Speech

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