Dear Parent/Guardian,
The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring system 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 throughout this school year. The purpose of this letter is to inform you that your student will take the Kindergarten Renaissance Star Early Literacy, and Star Math assessments on May 1st and 2nd, 2025. The results from PM3 will show how well your student has mastered the grade level content standards, and your school will provide information about how to access the results.
Your student’s FAST assessments are computer-adaptive tests taken on a computer or tablet. The questions get less or more difficult depending on how a student responds, and each student will see different questions. If you or your student would like to review Star Early Literacy and Star Math sample items at home, sample test items are available at https://flfast.org/families.html.
The Star Early Literacy assessment typically takes less than 15 minutes to complete. 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 Jessica Games at gamesj@lake.k12.fl.us.
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 during this test administration.
Sincerely,
Susan Jordan, Principal