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Potential Criteria Values for Frequently Used Commercial Literacy Measures
The following list of commercial literacy measures provides expected 'at or above grade level' indictors of student performance for common administration periods.
The list is limited, and includes the research-based types of measures regularly used by Minnesota schools.It does not include the potential list of 'Other' measures that might currently be used by districts in Minnesota. The list is not exhaustive and will be revised each year as more measures are brought to the attention of MDE.
The list should be used by districts as a guide of accepted measures for each of the research-based types of measures. In the 2012 Reading Well by 3rd Grade, a variety of measures were misclassified. The State Literacy Team has reviewed all the submitted measures and identified the following as tools that measure one of the three research-based types of literacy measures at each grade level. See the PK-3 Assessment Information guidance document on the Reading Well by 3rd Grade webpage for more information.
MDE does not advocate the use of any of the commercial literacy measures included in this list, but simply lists the appropriate measures for each type of literacy measure found in the Reading Well by 3rd Grade data submissions. It reflects what is currently being used in Minnesota districts at this time.
If one of these measures is listed as a tool used in a district, the expected Criteria for Determining 'at or above grade level' on the District Information & Measures worksheet should show one of the norms listed below.
If a district is using a different 'at or above grade level' score, the alternative score should be reported in the Criteria column. Information on how that score was determined should be briefly described in Explanation of Measure column on the right side of the table on the District Information & Measures worksheet.
Note: If a commercial measure is named and no further information is available in the table, MDE is working to find the correct technical information. Any district using the measures who have documented technical manuals for these measures may share the detailed information with MDE literacy staff.
Grade | Type of Measure | Name of Measure | Measures Norm Year/Edition | Date Administered | National Norms/Benchmark | SCRED
Kindergarten | Letter Sounds | AIMSWeb -Letter Sound Fluency (LSF) | 2011 | Winter | 28 sounds/minute
 |  | AIMSWeb -Letter Sound Fluency (LSF) | 2011 | Spring | 39 sounds/minute | 41 sounds
 |  | Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - First Sound Fluency (FSF)
 |  | DIBELS - Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) | 6th edition | Fall | 8 sounds
 |  | DIBELS - Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) | 6th edition | Winter | 25 sounds
 |  | Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST) - ERA
 |  | [NAME] Observational Survey
 | Oral Language | Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDI)
 |  | Oral Language Acquisition Inventory 2 (OLAI)
 |  | [NAME] |  | Fall | 4
 |  | [NAME] |  | Winter | 5
 |  | [NAME] |  | Spring | 7
 |  | Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - 4
 |  | The Test of Preschool Early Literacy (TOPEL)
 |  | Teacher Rating of Oral Language Learning (TROLL)
 | Blending/ Segmenting | Abecedarian Segmenting/Blending
 |  | AIMSWeb - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 2011 | Winter | 29 sounds/minute
 |  | AIMSWeb - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 2011 | Spring | 46 sounds/minute
 |  | Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - Phoneme Segemntation Fluency (PSF)
 |  | DIBELS - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 6th edition | Winter | 18 sounds
 |  | DIBELS - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 6th edition | Spring | 35 sounds
 |  | Fountas and [NAME]
First Grade | Decodable Words | [NAME] (NWF) | 2011 | Fall | 39 words/minute
 |  | [NAME] (NWF) | 2011 | Winter | 61 words/minute
 |  | [NAME] (NWF) | 2011 | Spring | 75 words/minute
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF)
 |  | DIBELS - Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) CLS | 6th edition | Fall | 24 words
 |  | DIBELS - Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) CLS | 6th edition | Winter | 50 words
 |  | DIBELS - Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) CLS | 6th edition | Spring | 50 words
 |  | Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST) - ERA
 |  | [NAME]
 |  | Yopp-Singer
 | Oral Language | Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDI)
 |  | Oral Language Acquisition Inventory 2 (OLAI)
 |  | [NAME] |  | Fall | 7
 |  | [NAME] |  | Winter | 15
 |  | [NAME] |  | Spring | 15
 |  | Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - 4
 |  | Teacher Rating of Oral Language Learning (TROLL)
 | Blending/ Segmenting | Abecedarian Segmenting/Blending
 |  | AIMSWeb - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 2011 | Fall | 39 sounds/minute
 |  | AIMSWeb - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 2011 | Winter | 50 sounds/minute
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - Phoneme Segemntation Fluency (PSF)
 |  | DIBELS - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 6th edition | Fall | 35 sounds
 |  | DIBELS - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 6th edition | Winter | 35 sounds
 |  | DIBELS - Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) | 6th edition | Spring | 35 sounds
 |  | Fountas and [NAME]
Second Grade | High Frequency Words | [NAME] 2nd Grade Word List
 |  | FRY 200
 | Oral Language | Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDI)
 |  | Oral Language Acquisition Inventory 2 (OLAI)
 |  | [NAME] |  | All Year | 15
 |  | Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - 4
 |  | Teacher Rating of Oral Language Learning (TROLL)
 | Oral Fluency | AIMSWeb - R-CBM | 2011 | Winter | 90 wpm | 90 wpm
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - Oral Reading Fluency (DORF)
 |  | DIBELS - Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | 6th edition | Fall | 44 wpm
 |  | DIBELS - Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | 6th edition | Winter | 68 wpm
 |  | DIBELS - Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | 6th edition | Spring | 90 wpm | 90 wpm
 |  | Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
 |  | Developmental Reading Assessment 2 (DRA 2)
 |  | [NAME]
 |  | Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST) CBMs
 |  | Fountas and [NAME]
 |  | [NAME]
 |  | QRI
 |  | Reading A to Z
 |  | STAR
Third Grade | Vocabulary | Fountas and [NAME]
 | Oral Fluency | AIMSWeb - R-CBM | 2011 | Winter | 110 wpm | 109 wpm
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - Oral Reading Fluency (DORF)
 |  | DIBELS - Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | 6th edition | Fall | 77 wpm
 |  | DIBSELS - Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | 6th edition | Winter | 92 wpm
 |  | DIBELS - Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) | 6th edition | Spring | 110 wpm | 109 wpm
 |  | Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
 |  | Developmental Reading Assessment 2 (DRA 2)
 |  | [NAME]
 |  | Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST) CBMs
 |  | Fountas and [NAME]
 |  | [NAME]
 |  | QRI
 |  | Reading A to Z
 |  | STAR
 | Comprehension | [NAME] | 2011 | Winter | 16
 |  | DIBELS NEXT - DAZE