Essential Skills

Diagnostic Decoding Skills

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This test can be given to groups or individuals and provides a practical means of assessing word analysis and decoding strengths and weaknesses:

Targeted Skills

Consonant Sounds

Short Vowel Sounds

Long Vowel Sounds

Consonant Blends

Vowels Digraphs

Diphthongs

R Controlled Vowels

Consonant Digraphs

Click on the nonsense word that you hear. Click on the ear to hear the word again.

Tests can be configured for individual students or an entire class.

Determine decoding strengths and weaknesses for instructional planning

Provide additional help for students who lack essential reading skills

Identify trends in reading achievement at the classroom, school and district level

Provide information regarding the effectiveness of instructional programs

Results can be displayed in a variety of formats.

This test is 68% complete.

Measure changes occurring over a specific instructional period

Comprehensive and easy to administer with no training required

Tests can be administered to groups or individuals

Evaluate students for program placement