Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents

Where, exactly, are decoding and spelling breaking down for this student?

What does this student already know and what have they yet to learn; what can this student already do and what skills have yet to be developed?

What are the next steps

Our free assessment tool is quick and easy to use. It does not require any specialist knowledge. It can be administered by teachers, tutors or concerned parents.

Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents

What is yet to learn?
What can they do now?
What can be developed?

Identify exactly whereliteracy skills are missing. Our assessment tools take the guesswork out of knowing where to start your students. They tell you most of what you need to know about where reading and spelling are breaking down, and indicate the best route forward for your students. track using the Agility with Sound system.

They do not measure underlying cognitive difficulties, and they do not indicate dyslexia. There are further indicative tests in the Assessment kit, but for a comprehensive diagnosis you may need a full professional assessment.

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.

Running records measure progress along the Ready to Read sequence of learning. Agility with Sound is a different sequence, a sequence for children who have not succeeded by the traditional route.

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.