Elementary Assessment Resources

General Resources

2021-2022 District Assessment Calendar

Parent Guidelines for Assessment

Renaissance STAR

STAR Reading Benchmarks and Cut Scores

STAR Math Benchmarks and Cut Scores

STAR Reading Unified Benchmarks and Cut Scores (Provides guidelines using the Unified scale to help categorize student performance between STAR Early Literacy and STAR Reading assessments)

Renaissance Learn Assessments Reminders

More Help From the Renaissance Learn Site for Teachers: Administering Star Tests Remotely

Seesaw introduction for taking Early Star at home
Created by Maureen Tracy at Penngrove.
Feel free to share as is or modify in your own words. Just "Save Activity" to your Seesaw account.

Seesaw introduction for taking STAR assessment
Created by Maureen Tracy at Penngrove.
Feel free to share as is or modify in your own words. Just "Save Activity" to your Seesaw account.

Illuminate Broad Coverage Assessments

PCS Testing Guidelines
For use with Illuminate Broad Coverage Assessments

Illuminate Testing FAQs

The Illuminate Broad Coverage Playlist
This is a YouTube collection of videos developed by PCS

CORE Phonics Survey

Core Phonics Survey Webinar Recording
View the training provided to district teachers by Reading Specialist Dana Gottlieb on August 25, 2020.

Core Phonics Teacher Resource Pages
Includes when to administer each part for each grade level.

Core Phonics Reminders
Before administering, please give these reminders to students, and parents who may be present.

**CORE Phonics Survey Reminders and Helpful Hints July 2021
Created by Dana Gottlieb at Penngrove. Thank you Dana!

Core Phonics Survey Slideshow to use for Assessment
Created by Renee Nealon at McDowell. Thank you again for this awesome resource, Renee!
To make a COPY of Renee's slides select "File" > "Make a copy" > "Entire presentation"
Presentation mode is great to use for administering!

Core Phonics Teacher's Record Sheet
Make your own copy of this one, as well. You can print your own or fill them out digitally if you'd prefer.

Core Phonics Survey Class Score Sheet

How to conduct one-one assessments via zoom

1. Have student version open in browser
2. Share screen so that student can see assessment
3. Click on "annotate" (If you don't see annotate, go to your zoom settings and enable annotate. Set it to "host only" if you don't want kids annotating)
4. Click on "spotlight", then click the icon that looks like a flashlight
5. Use the red spotlight to show kids where to start reading
6. Record as usual

If you have any questions or concerns please reach out.

Technical Resources

Want to increase your cursor size so students can see it more clearly? Watch these tutorials:
Increasing cursor size on a Mac
Another version of the cursor resize