
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.
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
Midyear and throughout
End-of-year
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