MAP Growth K-2 - Reading & Mathematics Content

Oct 3, 2026

MAP Growth K–2 is a set of computer-based assessment components for early literacy and mathematics. It includes Screening for baseline insights, Skills Checklists to track specific skill areas such as phonological awareness, phonics, concepts of print, and number sense, and a central adaptive Growth component for universal screening and growth measurement. Growth adapts in difficulty, supports up to four administrations per year, and reports progress on the stable RIT scale and a Lexile reading range.

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MAP Growth K–2 Overview

Assessment components: Screening, Skills Checklists, Growth

Key content areas

Skills assessed: Screening and Skills Checklists

Reading (Early Literacy and Reading skills)

Mathematics (Early Numeracy and Number Sense skills)

Common Core State Standards MAP Growth K–2 Reading & Mathematics Content MAP ® Growth™ K–2 is not a single assessment, but a trio of computer-based assessment components: • Screening • Skills Checklists • Growth Growth (adaptive, appropriate for universal screening and growth measurement) is the central component, which can be supplemented with the Screening tests and Skills Checklists to dig more deeply into foundational skills throughout the year. The Screening assessments provide baseline information for new students in the earliest stages of learning (e.g. , in kindergarten) . The Skills Checklist assessments provide information about specific skills and concepts (e.g. , phonological awareness, phonics and concepts of print within reading, and number sense and computation within mathematics) . They can be administered as many times as necessary during the school year, at the teacher’s discretion . For instance, they can be used in between Growth assessments to determine which skills require the greatest focus . The Growth assessments within MAP Growth and MAP Growth K–2 are recognized by the Center on Response to Intervention as universal screening tools . They adapt to the level of difficulty appropriate for each student, and are designed to be administered up to four times a year (fall, winter, spring, and summer) . They provide growth data (using the stable RIT scale to track growth within and across grades), and a Lexile® range for reading. Teachers use these adaptive assessments to identify skills most appropriate for instruction based on each student’s performance, regardless of whether the student is on, above, or below grade level. The key content areas covered are: Literacy Foundational Skills Language and Writing Literature and Informational Text Vocabulary Use and Functions Mathematics Operations and Algebraic Thinking Number and Operations Measurement and Data Geometry Following is a breakdown of the skills assessed in each of the MAP Growth K–2 assessments . Screening There are two screening assessments: one for early literacy and another for mathematics . The numbers in parentheses below represent the number of items on each assessment. EARLY LITERACY (33 ITEMS) Phonological Awareness Matching sounds | Rhyming | | --- | | Manipulating sounds | | Visual Discrimination/Phonics
Visual discrimination | | Letter identifications | | Matching sounds to letters | | Concepts of Print
Understanding pre-reading behaviors | | Orientation to the page | | Identify title/author | | Counting words | | EARLY NUMERACY (34 ITEMS)
Number Sense
Rote counting: counts to a number | | One-to-one correspondence 1–10, 11–20 | | Matches and identifies numerals 1–10, 11–20 | | Identifies numbers of objects: more/fewer | | Computation
Computes with manipulatives: moving objects | | Computes with manipulatives: numerical answer | [NWEA.org](NWEA.org) Skills Checklists There is an individual assessment for each skill area . Below, you can see each available assessment highlighted in gray, followed by a list of sub-skills that are covered on it. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of items on each assessment. READING Phonological Awareness (37) Rhyming | Identifying number of syllables (one, two, and three) | | --- | | Blending | | Letter Identification (54)
Upper case and lower case | | Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Identification (46) Initial and final consonants | | Middle vowels | | Phonemic Awareness: Manipulation of Sounds (37) Blending of sounds | | Substitution of sounds: beginning, middle, and end | | Deletion of sounds | | Phonics: Matching Letters to Sounds (33) Consonant and vowel sounds | | Syllable Types: Vowel, Digraphs/Diphthongs (23) Digraphs and diphthongs | | Syllable Types: CVC, CVCe, R-Controlled (16) CVC and CVCe | | R-Controlled | | Decoding Consonant Blends/Digraphs (49) Initial and final blends | | Initial and final digraphs | |

FAQs

What components make up MAP Growth K–2?

MAP Growth K–2 consists of three computer-based components: Screening, Skills Checklists, and Growth.

How does the Growth assessment support universal screening and progress tracking?

Growth is adaptive for each student’s appropriate difficulty level and can be administered up to four times per year. It provides growth data using the stable RIT scale and includes a Lexile range for reading.

What skill areas are covered within MAP Growth K–2?

The content areas include Literacy (foundational skills, language and writing, literature and informational text, vocabulary, and functions) and Mathematics (operations and algebraic thinking, number and operations, measurement and data, and geometry).

Oct 3, 2026

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