The San Diego Quick is an informal reading assessment that helps determine a student’s word recognition ability and independent reading level. It consists of graded word lists that students read aloud, with their performance indicating their reading level: independent, instructional, or frustration.
Independent: Preprimer
Frustration: First
Emery is fluent with early reading skills but struggles with words that have more complex phonics and spelling patterns, like those in the Grade 1 list. The frustration at Grade 1 indicates that Emery may need more targeted phonics instruction to build confidence with more complex words.
Strengths
Strong word recognition at early levels; likely fluent in basic sight words and simple phonic rules such as CVC.
Needs
Focus on building phonics skills for more complex words (especially those that contain irregular spelling patterns); practice with decoding strategies for longer multisyllabic words