The free Phonological Awareness/Phonics Quick Screener Toolkit will allow you to very quickly assess students and provide all the practise material your students need from PA Word, Syllable, Onset/Rime and Phoneme levels through to phonics and decoding. A handmade or hardcover mastery learning folder will organise and implement your Individual Education Plans and incorporate parent involvement in the process. See the IEP page for more information or get in touch to discuss your context.
If you are needing more in-depth tools, here are some useful links …
South Australian Spelling Test A pdf copy that provides teachers with an approximate guide to student spelling age.
Waddington Reading Test This is a link to the site to purchase this standardised reading test. Click on “Teaching Resources/Software” and your looking for Reading Spelling Tests 3rd Ed in the list on Page 5 (they don’t make it easy!)
Specific Level Assessment Tasks pdf from NSW Dept. of Education & Communities which includes Educheck (Neal Phonemic Skills Screening Test), Johnson Basic Vocabulary, Sutherland Phonological Test and Phonological Awareness for Older Students
Phonological Awareness Skills Mapping (PASM)
Phonological Awareness Skills Test pdf from the University of Kansas for general and special education teachers
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check (UK) information and free sample (sign-up required) It consists of reading regular and nonsense phonetic words to determine phonics fluency in the context of whole words.
Burt Reading Test This is a pdf of a simple word recognition reading test that gives a standardised reading age.
Oxford University Press Phonics Check Support with multiple free samples (registration required)
The first three tests are useful for mapping individual or class phonological awareness skills. The tests indicate appropriate “pass” marks and therefore can be used to determine where each child is at. Teachers and parents can use this information to differentiate the learning according to individual and class needs. Some samples of flashcard style activities for different phonological awareness levels are found in the Flashcard Club under Foundation; English.
Mastery learning folders are designed to assist teachers with IEP students who need individualised remediation content. The strategy allows teachers to easily identify appropriate content, organise it in the folder and facilitate their students systematically mastering their individualised content. What teachers and parents are saying …
