Acadience Reading assesses the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. We, however, will start the assessment in 1st grade. The assessments are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy and fluency with connected text, reading comprehension, and vocabulary.
Acadience Reading test is administered three times per year: beginning of the year (BOY), middle of the year (MOY), and end of the year (EOY).