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Provincial Assessment Programs

November 6, 2026

Standards tests and provincial assessment activities are developed for students in three programs: English, Français and French Immersion. These assessments focus on the basic areas of reading and math (numeracy).

Early Reading Screening

Learners will participate in early reading screening at school as part of a comprehensive approach to literacy learning. See the infographic here.

French Immersion:

  • Kindergarten to Grade 2
  • Tool: Test des habiletés fondamentales en littératie (THaFoL)

All other programs:

  • Grades 1 to 3
  • Tool: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

Some students with an Individual Education Plan may not be required to participate in screening.

Early reading screening is one piece of information that teachers use to:

  • Understand your child's strengths, needs, and progress in reading
  • Identify whether a child may benefit from additional reading support

Early reading screening is like a quick temperature check.

Screening focuses on some early literacy skills that support strong reading. A child may be asked to:

  • Identify letters and their sounds
  • Sound out words

Activities vary by grade, and no preparation is needed.

Benchmark results provide a snapshot.

They do not show everything a child can do as a reader.

  • Teachers use screening information, along with classroom work, observations, conversations, and other assessments,to plan instruction.
  • Teachers will share early reading screening results with families during ongoing conversations about learning. Results are also included on report cards twice a year.

If you have questions regarding early reading screening, please reach out to your child's classroom teacher.

Grade 3 & 4

  • Grade 3 are assessed in Reading and Numeracy
  • Grade 3 French Immersion students are assessed on their English reading.  The math assessment is in French
  • Grade 4 French Immersion students are assessed on their French reading skills

Most of those skills are reported through the Winnipeg School Division Comprehensive Assessment Program (CAP) at the beginning of school year. 

Middle Years (Grade 7 & 8)  

Students are assessed in:

  • Mathematics (Grade 7)
  • English Language Arts (Grade 8)
  • Français and French Immersion students are assessed in French Language Arts (Grade 8)
These skills are assessed by the classroom teacher using a variety of assessment instruments from September to January.

Grade 10

Students are assessed in:

  • Mathematics (exponents, numbers sense, polynomials, linear relations, circle geometry, symmetry, similarity, statistics and probability)
  • Reading and Responding 

12 Standards

Students are assessed in:

  • English Language Arts
  • Français langue seconde for Français and French Immersion students
  • Pre-Calculus
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Consumer Mathematics

For more information on provincial assessment programs go to http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ks4/assess

 

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