Tools for Beginning Readers
Assessments
Pre-Decoding Skills Assessment
Really Great Reading offers Pre-Decoding Skills Surveys for assessing students in kindergarten and early first grade. These surveys help you place students in appropriate beginning reading instruction.
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonemic Awareness
- Letter Names
- Letter Sounds
Really Great Reading offers a complimentary version of the Pre-Decoding Skills Surveys. Click here to request a complimentary set.
Diagnostic Decoding Surveys
Our Diagnostic Decoding Surveys are an easy and efficient way to quickly detect when students are having word-level reading difficulties, and pinpoint specific decoding weaknesses. Click here for more information.
In a short period of time, we have improved outcomes for children and have the data to prove it! Phonics Blitz is closing the achievement gap in our district. Our children are reading and being successful. The training provided my teachers with a solid foundation – they were able to come back the very next day and begin implementing this program successfully to change the lives of children…
We are a Phonics Blitz school!
— Rick H., Superintendent
