Acadience Reading K-6 or Acadience Reading Français is a literacy screening tool that is currently being explored by Mission School District starting with Kindergarten in 2025-2026.  Other grades will follow in subsequent years.  Acadience Reading K-6 helps identify students who are at-risk for reading difficulties and determine the skills to target for instructional support.  This is in response to the Ministry of education initiative to mandate the early literacy screening of Kindergarten to Grade 3 students using evidence-based, standardized screeners with a recent announcement that a B.C. based screener will also be created soon.  More Acadience screener training will follow soon for Grades 1-3 starting in the Spring of 2026.

Acadience Resources:

• Acadience Reading Assessments
• Acadience Reading K-6
• Fact sheet and description of the measures in Acadience Reading K-6
• Acadience Learning Materials (free downloads)

More Information:

• Literacy Assessments
• Standardized Literacy Screeners
• Diagnostic Assessments
  • ELPATS Assessment (password protected for MPSD educator use only)
• Comparing Assessment Tools
• What’s Next after Screening