Assessment Tools

Reading Assessment Flowchart (AIM Institute)

Multiple Assessment Areas

• Acadience Learning Materials - Downloadable (SOME FREE) K-6 reading assessments (Benchmarks, RAN, ORF)

• CORE's Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures - Collection of tests for the comprehensive assessment of skills related to reading.

• CUBED Screening and Progress Monitoring - A family of screening and progress monitoring tools that accurately, reliably, and efficiently measure decoding, language comprehension, and their product, reading.

• easyCBM - Benchmark and progress monitoring measures

• Reading A-Z- Collection of easy-to-use assessment tools for key reading behaviors and foundational skills-alphabet, phonological awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, fluency, and comprehension.

• Readsters Pre-Reading Probes (FREE)- An informal diagnostic tool for quickly assessing pre-reading skills; primarily used with kindergarten students, and with severely struggling readers of all ages.

• Really Great Reading (FREE)- Complimentary reading assessments K-12.

• Cool Tools (FREE)- Informal reading assessments in the areas of: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

Phonemic Awareness 

• Heggerty Assessments (FREE under Resources tab)- These student assessments can be used to monitor student progress with phonological and phonemic awareness skills, and the results can be used to plan for instruction.

• Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST) (FREE)

• The Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation (FREE)

• TPAS: Test of Phonological Awareness in Spanish 

Phonics

• Informal Decoding Inventory - This inventory includes 6 subtests that progress in difficulty. The first 5 address single-syllable decoding, the last addresses multisyllabic decoding.

• National Center on Intensive Intervention- Phonics Inventory (FREE)

• Really Great Reading Diagnostic Decoding Surveys (FREE)- Complimentary Diagnostic Decoding Surveys are an easy and efficient way to detect when students are having word-level reading difficulties, and pinpoint their specific decoding weaknesses.

• QPS: Quick Phonics Screener with Spelling Survey (FREE)

• Spelling Inventories (FREE)

  • K-2 Spelling Inventory

  • Word Their Way Spelling Inventories

• San Diego Quick Assessment (FREE) - A word recognition assessment

• Word ID Assessments Across Content Areas (Grades 6-12)

Vocabulary

• Critchlow Verbal Language Scales (FREE)

Miscellaneous 

• Rosner (FREE)- Test of auditory analysis skills 

• Ohio Literacy Alliance Quick and Easy High School Reading Assessments (FREE)