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A Parent's Guide to the Acadience Reading Screener
Acadience is a Universal Screener that consists of several short tests given to children to screen and monitor their progress in learning the necessary skills required to become successful readers. Click the image to see the guide!
A Parent's Guide to Diagnostic Assessments
Diagnostic assessments help to determine where to begin with reading support. They take a deeper look at why your child is struggling. The diagnostic helps teachers specifically see how to help your child. With this information, they can fine-tune what they are working on with your child.
The 5 Big Ideas of Beginning Reading
Comprehension is the goal of reading. We use the other four big ideas to build up to reading comprehension. This can start with listening comprehension for pre-readers and readers who are still learning how to decode.
Phonemic Awareness
The ability to identify and play with individual sounds in spoken words. Practice blending phonemes prepares students to read words, and practice segmenting phonemes prepares them to spell words.
Phonics
Understanding how letters and groups of letters link to sounds to form letter-sound relationships and spelling patterns. It involves learning letter-sound correspondences and common spelling patterns. Phonics supports decoding and spelling and leads to fluent reading.
Fluency
The ability to read words, phrases, sentences, and stories correctly, with enough speed and expression. When decoding skills become automatic, students can more easily focus their attention on understanding words and text. Fluency is the bridge to comprehension.
Vocabulary
Knowing what words mean and how to say and use them correctly. Many word meanings are learned through reading, but before students can read text on their own, vocabulary can be taught through oral language interactions and reading books aloud.
Reading Comprehension
The ability to understand what you are reading. In addition to vocabulary and fluent reading of text, reading comprehension requires background knowledge, understanding sentence and text structures, monitoring understanding, and connecting ideas.
Citation
National Center on Improving Literacy (2023). The 5 Big Ideas of Beginning Reading. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Special Education Programs, National Center on Improving Literacy. Retrieved from https://www.improvingliteracy.org.
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