aimswebPlus Early Reading Screening Assessments

Letter naming fluency (5K) measures a student’s knowledge of upper and lower-case letters. Students will have one minute to say the names of visually presented upper and lowercase letters that they know.
Letter word sounds fluency (4K-1st grade) measures a student’s letter sound knowledge. Students will have one minute to say the sounds of visually presented letters, syllables, and words that they know.

Initial sounds (4K-5K) measures a student’s phonemic awareness. Students will be provided a page with four pictures. Students will be asked to either point to a picture of a word that matches the initial sound the teacher says or make the initial sound of a word spoken by the teacher. This assessment will take 2-3 minutes.

Phoneme segmentation (1st grade) measures a student’s phonemic awareness. Students will listen to a word that is spoken by the teacher and then say each sound they hear in the word. This assessment will take 2-3 minutes.

Auditory vocabulary (5K-1st grade) measures a student’s knowledge of words commonly found in 5-year-old Kindergarten and Grade 1 reading materials. Your child will match a picture to an orally presented word. This assessment will take 2-4 minutes.

Vocabulary (2nd- 3rd grade) measures a student’s knowledge of the meanings of grade-appropriate words. Students will choose the meaning of target words by selecting from multiple-choice options. This is an untimed, computerized assessment that typically takes 4-7 minutes.

Oral reading fluency (1st-3rd grade) measures a student’s decoding skills. Students will read two stories aloud, each for one minute.