Florida FAST VPK Guide and Practice

Practice Florida VPK FAST Early Literacy with recorded questions, early math, saved progress and answer explanations. Find guidance for school-year and summer VPK testing.

Florida VPK FAST uses Star Early Literacy to check emerging literacy and early mathematics skills. Our original listening activities let children explore letters, sounds, spoken stories and small quantities with an adult nearby. Each practice form includes explanations after submission so families can discuss the skills and choose what to learn next.

Assessment guidance checked November 6, 2026. Practice forms are independent fixed activities, not official, adaptive or calibrated Star tests. Raw accuracy does not establish readiness, placement, an official score or a percentile.

FAST assessments for VPK

VPK uses one Star Early Literacy assessment that includes early numeracy. There is no separate VPK FAST Star Math test in the standard program.

School-year VPK programs use PM1, PM2 and PM3. Programs with at least 83 instructional days use the first and last 30 instructional days for PM1 and PM3; shorter school-year programs use the first and last 10 days. PM2 falls at 40% to 60% of instructional hours. Summer VPK uses PM1 in the first 10 instructional days and PM3 in the last 10, with no PM2. Your program can confirm its calculated windows.

Forms A, B and C below are alternate practice forms, not PM1, PM2 and PM3. You can use them when helpful throughout the year.

VPK full practice forms

Early Literacy has 27 scored questions and two additional practice questions. The extra questions are excluded from the practice score; they are not official experimental items. Sign in to save progress, pause, resume and review explanations after submission.

Early Literacy

Practicing with a young learner

Use headphones or speakers and try a recording before beginning. An adult can help operate the audio and answer controls. Let the child choose an answer, and use the explanations after submission to talk about the skill. Take breaks whenever the child needs them.

Our elapsed clock saves working time across pauses. Official Star Early Literacy averages 10 to 20 minutes and Star Math averages 20 to 30 minutes; those averages are not fixed total limits for these practice forms. Recognition questions do not assess a child's oral reading fluency or all aspects of development.

For everyday learning, read aloud together, notice letters in familiar names, count real objects, sort shapes and explain how you know. Short, playful activities can support the same foundational skills without completing an entire form.

Official Florida resources

Continue to the Grade 1 FAST guide