K-2 FAST Parent_Guardian Notification Letter

Dear Parent/Guardian,

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring test that is administered three times per year to track your student’s progress in learning the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards. Your student will take the K-2 Renaissance Star Early Literacy, Star Reading, and/or Star Math assessment(s) during the weeks of April 13^th to April 30^th. The results from PM3 will show how well your student has mastered the grade level content standards. You will be provided information about how to see your student’s results after testing is completed.

FAST assessments are computer-adaptive tests taken on a computer or tablet. The questions get less or more difficult depending on how your student responds, and each student will see different questions from a common item bank. You or your student can review Star Early Literacy, Star Reading, and/or Star Math sample items at home at https://flfast.org/families.html.  

The Star Early Literacy assessment typically takes less than 15 minutes to complete. The Star Reading assessment is usually completed in less than 20 minutes, and the Star Math assessment typically takes less than 30 minutes to complete.

If you have any questions related to this test administration, you may contact Mrs. Townsend at 727-547-7841 EXT. 2014
For more information about the Florida Statewide Assessments program, please visit the portal at https://flfast.org/fsa.html.

Thank you for supporting your student and encouraging him or her to do his or her best on the test.

Sincerely,

Ms. Kranzel

STAR Early Literacy/Reading Schedule

Kindergarten	1st	2nd
4/14 Craft 4/16 Crawford 4/17 Antunez 4/21 – Augoustatos (Miller)	4/13 & 4/14 Reccy 4/15 & 4/16 Stevens 4/17 & 4/20 Vazquez 4/21 & 4/22 Williams	4/15 – all 2nd grade classes

STAR Math Schedule               

Kindergarten	1st	2nd
4/23 Craft 4/29 Crawford 4/24 Antunez 4/30 – Augoustatos (Miller)	4/23 Reccy 4/28 Stevens 4/29 Vazquez 4/30 Williams	4/28 – all 2nd grade classes