Wausau School District English Language Arts

PK-5 Literacy Assessment Matrix

Grade Level / Universal Screen
All students /

Diagnostic to Inform Instruction

All students as required

/ Progress Monitoring
Grades K-5 once per week; for intensive and strategic students per instructional recommendation on AIMSweb /

Measure Growth

All students as required

END OF YEAR

As it pertains to yourGrade Level, K-5
PK / RAN /

4K Assessments

Writing Samples

PALS Prek

One minute Benchmark Test

(e.g. letters in name, identify
name in a group) /

PALS

/ KEEP in White folder (Mark the books used to benchmark & date the assessment on the outside of the folder)
REQUIRED:
Assessment Summary Form
WTW Progress Monitoring
OPTIONAL:
Running records progress monitoring form (GR levels from Q1-4 can be found on Pearson Inform)
Benchmark Assessment Form, completely scored with notes as needed
KEEP in Red writing folder
Fall and 3rd quarter District Writing prompt & rubric score summary sheet
Principals KEEP
“At risk” AIMSweb student PM booklets unless data is already in AIMSweb
DISCARD
AIMSweb booklets (both Benchmark & PM)
PALS recording forms
Running records forms (except final Spring form)
WTW Inventories and feature analysis form
Optional testing data:
HRSIW
Letter ID
K /

AIMSweb

TEL: LNF, PSF, NWF, LSF

/ Benchmark Assessment
HRSIW (optional)
Phonological Awareness (JAK) (optional)
Running Records (optional)
District Writing Samples
PALS / AIMSweb PM

Running Records

/ Benchmark Assessment
AIMSweb
Running Records
Writing Samples
PALS
1 /

AIMSweb

TEL: LNF, PSF, NWF, LSF

R-CBM / Benchmark Assessment
HRSIW (optional)
Phonological Informal Assessment (RF)(optional)
Running Records
District Writing Samples
WTW Primary Spelling Inventory
PALS / Appropriate AIMSweb PM
Running Records / Benchmark Assessment
AIMSweb
HRSIW (optional)
Running Records
Writing Samples
WTW Primary Spelling Inventory
PALS
2 /

AIMSweb

R-CBM
/ Benchmark Assessment
MAP
Quick Phonics Diagnostic (optional)
Running Records
District Writing Samples
WTW Primary Spelling Inventory
PALS (2014-15) / R-CBM PM NWF (optional)
Running Records /

Benchmark Assessment

AIMSweb
MAP
Writing Samples
WTW Primary Spelling Inventory
PALS (2014-15)
3-5 /

AIMSweb

R-CBM
MAZE
/ Benchmark Assessment
Quick Phonics Diagnostic
Running Records
District Writing Samples
WTW Elementary Spelling Inventory (Sept.) / R-CBM PM MAZE
Running Records / Benchmark Assessment
AIMSweb
Running Records
Writing Samples

WTW Elementary Spelling Inventory (Jan.)

District writing sample

Data to be entered by teachers into PEARSON INFORM: Data entered into PEARSON INFORM by District Staff:

Guided Reading Level (Select Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 test sessions) PALS, MAP, ACCESS, WKCE, 3rd Gr. Writing, AIMSweb
WTW (Fall and Winter – select test sessions in Pearson)
HRSW (optional)

AIMSweb Universal Screener

TEL: Test of Early Literacy is LNF =Letter Name Fluency, LSF = Letter Sound Fluency, PSF = Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, NWF = Nonsense Word Fluency,

R-CBM = Reading Curriculum Based Measure, based on oral reading fluency words per minute and % accuracy

HRSIW = Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words MAP = Measure of Academic Progress, PALS Pre-K through 2nd grade: Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening

WTW = Words Their Way Spelling Inventory (Bear, 2008, Fourth Edition) Benchmark Assessment: Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Kits 1 & 2

Revised June 2011; August 2010; April 2012; March 2013; April 2013, Fall 2013; May 2014, June 2014