Phonics Suite for Struggling Readers
Grouping Matrix
The Grouping Matrix is a free web-based program that enables you to group students (from the middle of 1st through 12th grade) according to the type and depth of their decoding difficulties.
Assessing your students with our Diagnostic Decoding Surveys and submitting the scores to the online Grouping Matrix is a good first step toward implementing RGR’s Phonics Suite lessons. When you enter the data for a student, the Grouping Matrix immediately assigns that student to a group. There are several main groups that come out of the Grouping Matrix:
1 – Strong Reader
2 – Slow Reading Rate (with strong decoding skills)
3 – Mild Decoding Weakness
4 – Moderate Decoding Weakness
5 – Significant Decoding Weakness
6 – Severe Decoding Weakness
7 – Recommend Further Testing
8 – Incomplete Scores
For more information on the Grouping Matrix or to request a user name and password, click here.
I attended your sessions this summer and then again in the fall. I've been using your Advanced Decoding Skills Survey with my 5th–8th grade students, and I really like the way it categorizes the student's deficiencies so that intervention can focus on their needs. It is so much more useful than the typical assessments that are designed more for "sorting" students by ability levels rather than actually addressing their needs.
— Ted, Middle School Teacher, California
