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.

Use our complimentary set of decoding surveys to assess an unlimited number of students. Schools nationwide use our decoding surveys as a great companion piece to universal screening instruments such as DIBELS, DRA, and AIMSWeb.

The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys enable one-on-one assessment of struggling readers’ phonics skills and are free and easy to administer.

The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys allow teachers to:

• Assess the basic and advanced decoding skills of readers of almost any age
• Identify gaps in students’ phonics knowledge and pinpoint specific phonics weaknesses
• Determine whether the decoding skills are being established at an appropriate pace

The Beginning Decoding Survey assesses students’ ability to read high-frequency words and single-syllable decodable words with short vowels, digraphs, and blends. It measures a student’s ability to read words in isolation as well as in sentences.

The Advanced Decoding Survey assesses how well students read unfamiliar single-syllable decodable words with more advanced vowel patterns. The Advanced Decoding Survey also assesses a student’s ability to read familiar and unfamiliar multi-syllable words.

A complimentary set can be downloaded by clicking here. This complimentary packet contains everything you’ll need for initial assessment of an unlimited number of students. The packet also provides an explanation of how the survey results can be used to group students, and it offers guidance on how to plan effective, efficient instruction.

RGR also publishes six additional forms and a User’s Guide that may be used for progress monitoring. The User’s Guide provides comprehensive guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret the Diagnostic Decoding Surveys. The User’s Guide includes reproducible copies of the additional forms. In addition, RGR offers a full-day and a half-day Screening and Diagnostic Assessment workshop for teachers or administrators who use or would like to use the Diagnostic Decoding Surveys in their school.

To learn more about the additional forms and the User’s Guide, click here.

Click here to request a complimentary set.