Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents

Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents

The Decoding Test

This video shows you how to administer and interpret this test.

This is much the most revealing of these tests. For students who are well below, you will probably only need to print the first and second sheets.

Print in landscape mode.

  

The First Spelling Test

This video shows you how to administer and interpret this test.

This test tells you how the child perceives sounds in words, and tells you which of the simplest sound – letter patterns the child knows, and knows well.

Print in landscape mode.

The Advanced Spelling Test

This video shows you how to administer and interpret this test.

This covers vowel digraphs and other more advanced patterns.

Do not give this test to children who struggled on the previous one.

Print in portrait mode.

How to Measure Progress

This video shows how to measure progress along the Agility with Sound sequence.

Phonological Awareness Test

This test measures a student’s ability to identify, blend and manipulate the sounds of speech. It is not essential, but is the very best measure of progress.