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Assessment

What is Assessment? Allows educators to see what skills their students have mastered and guides what needs to happen next.

New to reading assessment? Start with our assessment skill explainers: syllable awareness, phoneme identification, and letter names and sounds.

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Four Step Assessment Decision Chart
This resource offers educators a 4-step guide to diagnose skill gaps and monitor the progress of student mastery of skills involved in the reading process.
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Phoneme Blending and Segmenting Assessment for Mastery
Use this assessment tool to see how well your students have mastered basic phonological awareness skills.
Word Recognition
Phonological Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Phoneme Segmentation and Blending
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Phoneme Identification Assessment for Mastery
Use this mastery assessment for a quick check to see if students can accurately identify phonemes.
Phonemic Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Word Recognition
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Onset-Rime Assessment for Mastery
Use this mastery assessment for a quick check to see if students can accurately and consistently segment and blend onset-rime.
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Onset-Rime
Word Recognition
Phonological Awareness
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Assessment: Short Vowels in Reading and Spelling
This assessment serves as a quick “check in” to see if students understand the skill before moving on.
Beginning Phonics Patterns
Phonics
Short Vowels
Word Recognition
Phonics Patterns
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Letter Sound Fluency Assessment
See how reading specialist Alison Ellis monitors a student’s progress in reading letter sounds automatically and correctly.
Word Recognition
Phonics
Letter Names and Sounds
Sound - Letter Correspondence
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Letter Naming Fluency Assessment
Watch reading specialist Alison Ellis give a one-minute assessment to a first grader to monitor his progress in naming letters automatically and correctly.
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Letter Names and Sounds
Phonics
Sound - Letter Correspondence
Word Recognition
Fluency
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Phoneme Manipulation Assessment for Mastery
Use this mastery assessment for a quick check to see if students can accurately manipulate phonemes.
Phoneme Manipulation
Phonemic Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Word Recognition
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Rhyming Skills Assessment
This assessment is designed to check your students’ understanding of rhyme and includes a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word list.
Onset-Rime
Phonological Awareness
Rhyming
Word Recognition
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Syllable Awareness Assessments for Mastery
Use this mastery assessment for a quick check to see if students can accurately and consistently segment, blend, and delete syllables.
Syllables
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Letter Sound Assessment for Mastery
Use this mastery assessment for a quick check to see if students can accurately say the letter sounds.
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Word Recognition
Phonics
Sound - Letter Correspondence
Letter Names and Sounds
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Letter Naming Assessment for Mastery
Use this mastery assessment for a quick check to see if students can accurately name the uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Word Recognition
Phonics
Sound - Letter Correspondence
Letter Names and Sounds
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