Assessments
Measure student progress to improve overall learning with Reading A-Z's collection of easy-to-use assessment tools for key reading behaviors and foundational skills-alphabet, phonological awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, fluency, and comprehension.
Why Use Assessments
Assessments help you identify areas of instruction to meet every student's individual needs. Foundational skills require mastery before students can become fluent readers and comprehend what they are reading. Identifying key foundational skills and complex reading behaviors with assessments helps you focus your instructional time on concepts students struggle to understand.
How to Use Assessments
An assessment is any formal or informal measurement of student progress used to improve overall learning. Use our formal assessment tools to help diagnose a student's instructional needs and their understanding of the instruction delivered. Then, find resources from within Reading A-Z’s vast collection to differentiate your instruction based on each student’s assessed needs.
Use a variety of Reading A-Z resources as opportunities for students to practice important ELA skill. Be sure to look for opportunities for:
- Close examination of text
- Mastery of complex literary and informational reading
- Inferring meaning from what is read
- Building arguments using evidence from the text
Provide students opportunities to practice assessed skills with increasingly complex texts in our book collection and by using our book support resources, Discussion Cards, and Comprehension Quizzes, along with other resources such as Close Reading Packs.