Star Early Literacy Resources – Star Help

Test Administration
Introductory Video	This training video can be used with students to show them how to use the mouse or keyboard to enter answers to test questions.
Introductory Video – Tablet	This training video can be used with students to show them how to use a tablet to enter answers to test questions.
Star Early Literacy Test Administration Manual	Provides preparation checklist and sample script to use with students.
Star Early Literacy Sample Items	Examples of test items students may see during a Star Early Literacy test.

Implementation
Renaissance Star 360® Implementation Guide	Gives educators essential information about using Star 360 assessments.
Tips for Getting Started	Provides helpful hints to get you started using the program.
At-Home Reading Activities	Provides simple activities that parents or guardians can do with children in grades K–3 to strengthen their reading skills.
Renaissance Everywhere	Resources to help families support student learning, regardless of which products they are using.
K–3 Guidance for Renaissance Star Assessments®	Guidelines to help you decide which Renaissance Star assessment to administer to your kindergarten through grade 3 students.
Star Early Literacy Reports for Early Learning Years	This document highlights scores and reports that will be most relevant when working with early learning years students.

References
Score Definitions	Explains test scores.
Enterprise Benchmarks and Cut Scores	Provides guidelines to help categorize student performance.
Unified Benchmarks and Cut Scores	Provides guidelines using the Unified scale to help categorize student performance.
Star Assessments™ for Early Literacy Technical Manual	Provides technical information about how the program was developed.
Student Growth Percentiles—Learn More	Explains Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) and defines testing windows.
Kindergarten Literacy Readiness Indicators—Enterprise Scale	Provides list of initial early literacy skills expected of kindergarteners and sample parent letter for communicating students' progress.
Kindergarten Literacy Readiness Indicators: Unified Scale	Provides list of initial early literacy skills expected of kindergarteners and sample parent letter for communicating students' progress.
Grade Three Reading Proficiency Indicators—Enterprise Scale	Provides lists of skills designating reading proficiency from kindergarten through third grade, and sample parent letters for communicating students' progress.
Grade Three Reading Proficiency Indicators: Unified Scale	Provides lists of skills designating reading proficiency from kindergarten through third grade, and sample parent letters for communicating students' progress.

Core Progress Learning Progression Title
Core Progress® for Reading	An empirically validated learning progression.
Core Progress® for Math	An empirically validated learning progression.