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Assessment Tools

Below you will find resources that I have found helpful in my own reading instruction and would like to share with you.

Alphabet Assessment

Students should be assessed to find out which letters and sounds of letters they can name.
Concepts about Print Assessment

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Concepts about Print Assessment

QuickTime version: Watch Patti demonstrate the assessment.
The Learning Record

The Learning Record is an open record of literacy achievement, K-12, maintained and monitored by the classroom teacher to provide evidence that students are moving toward agreed upon goals and standards.
What are Developmental Scales?

Reading Scale 1 - K-3: Becoming a Reader (English)

It is important to assess the phonemic awareness development of kindergartners and first graders. Here are some tools to use.

Phonics Inventory

A tool for assessing individual students so that they can be grouped according to instructional needs.
Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary Development
Spelling Development

These two tests, the primary and elementary spelling inventories, are designed to assess the word knowledge elementary students have to bring to the tasks of reading and spelling.
Systematic, Explicit Phonics Instruction

Information on research, assessment, and instructional strategies provided by the Early Reading Technology Project.