NWEA MPG (Kindergarten and 1st Grade) Math Goals Performance Number Sense Skills include representing a given set of objects as a numeral, counting forward and backward, ordering numbers, and understanding one­to­one correspondence. Computation Skills include basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Algebraic Thinking Skills include representing word problems with manipulatives and solving real­world addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems. Geometry Skills include understanding location words, naming and classifying shapes according to attributes, and identifying real­world objects that are shaped like 2­D and 3­D shapes. Measurement and Data Analysis Skills include measuring the height of an object, ordering objects from shortest to longest, matching a thermometer to a given temperature, comparing weights of objects, understanding the value of a coin, matching a digital clock to a given time, reading an analog clock, comparing lengths of time, and interpreting and representing data in a graph or table. Reading Goals Performance Reading: Foundations Skills include identifying and matching letters; alphabetizing words; recognizing that a group of letters form a word, selecting the picture with the same beginning, middle, or ending sound as a given picture; selecting words that rhyme; selecting the word with the long vowel sound; matching ending sounds to given letters; selecting the word given orally; and identifying a given sight word. Reading: Literature and Nonfiction Skills include matching a picture to a given story sequence, identifying the author on the cover of a book, inferring a character’s feelings in a literary passage, recognizing the genre of a given text, inferring the purpose of a short informational passage, locating the cause of a given effect in a sentence, locating a detail, and understanding the main idea of an informational passage. Reading: Vocabulary Skills include selecting an antonym or synonym for a given word in a sentence, classifying words that belong in a given category, using words to describe a picture, and determining the meaning of a word based on context and sentence structure. Writing Skills include locating a detail that does not belong in a passage, sorting sentences according to sequence words, locating an error in a given sentence, locating a topic in a writing web, selecting the correct verb or adjective that completes a given sentence, locating an error in a given sentence, identifying an exclamatory sentence, identifying the words that create a given contraction, understanding which punctuation mark belongs at the end of a sentence, and finding the correct spelling for a word. Lexile Range The Lexile Framework is a scientific way to match readers with text using the same scale. Recognized as the best way to match readers with appropriate text, Lexile measures connect learners of all ages with resources at the right level of challenge. Students that are below 0 on the Lexile Scale will have a BR, or ​Beginning Reader, code as their Lexile score. ​A student’s Lexile range can be used to identify appropriate, challenging books, periodicals, and other reading materials. See more information at https://lexile.com/about­lexile/lexile­overview/lexile­infographic/​. A first grade student with “Literature, Nonfiction, and Vocabulary” in Reading Goals Performance instead of “Reading: Foundations, Reading: Literature and Nonfiction, Reading: Vocabulary and Writing,” has transitioned from the MPG to MAP test. For more information on transitioning from MPG to MAP, click ​HERE​.