Assess Your Students to Form Reading Small Groups
By LAURIN BRAINARD Updated July 15, 2024
Small group reading is such an important part of the school day since it gives us a chance to meet with our students in a smaller setting. This is where we can focus on the specific phonics skills that our students need to become fluent readers. It can be tricky to form these groups, so I created an assessment to help you!
This assessment is designed to be quick and easy for you to administer to each child. There are two teacher checkoff sheets that can be printed double sided and placed in a folder or binder to make these easy to refer back to in the future.
This assessment covers the following phonics areas so you can determine the phonics spelling patterns that your students already know and determine what they are ready to learn:
- Letter Names and Sounds
- Short Vowel Word Families
- Beginning Blends
- Digraphs
- R-Controlled Vowels
- Magic E Word Families
If you would like to grab this FREE assessment, then just sign up using this form and you can begin assessing your students right away:
After you have given the assessment, then check out this post to learn more about how to use the assessment data to form your small groups: How to Use Data to Form Small Groups
You can also read about my favorite teaching resource for small groups in this post: Use Phonics Books to Build Confident Readers
If you have any questions on how to use this assessment to help you form your reading groups, just send me a message on Instagram @theprimarybrain and I am happy to chat!
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Written on August 22nd, 2023 by Laurin Brainard