📘 Sentence Smart™ Diagnostic Overview
A parent and educator guide to what the assessment reveals—and why it matters

Sentence Smart™ is a diagnostic tool that gives educators and parents deeper insight into how a student processes and expresses language. Through a combination of oral and written tasks, students demonstrate how they build sentences, retell what they’ve heard, and explain ideas in their own words—using both their voice and writing.

It helps answer questions like:
•    Can my child understand and express ideas clearly—out loud and on paper?
•    Can they organize thoughts into complete, structured sentences?
•    Can they retell stories meaningfully using their own language?
•    Can they show comprehension and reflection through speaking and writing?

🧠 What You’ll Learn About Your Student
This assessment helps uncover:
•    🧩 Sentence structure and grammar in real-time use
•    🔗 Logical sequencing of ideas using transitions and connectors
•    🎧 Listening comprehension turned into expressive output
•    🎙️ Oral fluency, vocabulary choice, and clarity of thought
•    ✍️ Written retell quality including elaboration and idea expansion
•    🪞 Self-awareness of how meaning was understood and expressed

📊 How It’s Evaluated
Using short recording tasks and written outputs, we look for:
•    ✅ Complete, fluent sentences with logical structure
•    ✅ Coherent retelling using appropriate vocabulary and transitions
•    ✅ Personal expression in character-based or storytelling formats
•    ✅ Reflective comments showing understanding and sentence-level thinking
All tasks are scored with rubrics aligned to New York State Next Generation Standards and Common Core benchmarks for oral and written expression.

🎯 Why It Matters
By understanding how students process and express ideas, we can:
•    🔍 Identify gaps in comprehension and sentence fluency
•    🎯 Target instruction to meet expressive language needs
•    📚 Strengthen reading, writing, and oral communication foundations
•    🧠 Reveal meaning-making abilities often missed by traditional assessments

Sentence Smart™ isn’t just a test—it’s a window into your child’s sentence-level thinking aligned with practical easy to use instructional tools. The Sentence Smart Assessment helps students say and show what they understand—clearly and confidently. And Sentence Smart's visual, interactive, tactile tools empower parents and educators to implement the test's recommendations to help students become fluent readers and writers.