Do you need quick and effective phonics assessments for progress monitoring during your phonics intervention? This resource has phonics assessments to complement structured, systematic, and sequential phonics instruction. These quick checks will determine which skills your students have mastered. Try a FREE Sample of these Phonics Assessments with your students!

What is in this Phonics Assessment Bundle?

1. One Page of Phonics Quick Checks - Teacher Copy

Print a teacher page for each of your students you will assess. Keep these in a data folder for each student.

2. One Page of Phonics Quick Checks - Page Students Copy

Have all 5 Phonics Assessments on 1 page for your students. Print these on cardstock and stick them in a plastic sleeve. 

3. Five Pages of the Phonics Quick Checks - Extra Large Print Student Copy

You’ll only need to print the student pages once. Laminate them or slip them into plastic sleeve protectors so you can use them repeatedly.

Each Phonics Quick Check has two phonics assessments:

1. Decoding words (real and nonsense words)

2. Decodable Sentences (connect to text)

   Also included is a page that clearly explains how to administer and use the assessment to guide your instruction.

3. Encoding is coming soon!

When should I Use these Phonics Assessments?

1. Identify which phonics intervention your students need.

I always administer this at the beginning of every school year. Once my students are identified as needing Tier 2 phonics intervention, I use this to place my students in groups. I can tell exactly which phonics skills my students have mastered and which skills they need to work on.

2. Pre and Post-Phonics Intervention Assessments

These phonics assessments are an excellent resource for baseline data on phonics interventions. I give a pre-assessment before instruction and a post-assessment to see how they retained the phonics skills. 

3. Phonics Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring Throughout Your Phonics Instruction.

Use these as a progress monitoring tool during your phonics intervention. I assess my students' progress weekly. The information I gather guides my instruction and tells me exactly what my students are learning.

The skills included in this phonics assessment are:

1. Unit 1: Letters to Words

2. Unit 2: Word Families (CVC)

3. Unit 3: Double Consonants - FLoSS Rule

4. Unit 4: Consonant Digraphs

5. Unit 5: Beginning Consonant Blends

6. Unit 6: Ending Blends

7. Unit 7: Silent e

8. Unit 8: R-Controlled Vowels

9. Unit 9: Advanced Consonants (Silent Letters)

10. Unit 10: Vowel Teams

11. Unit 11: Diphthongs and Vowel Digraphs

12. Unit 12: Prefixes and Suffixes

Find more information on the Lessons for Phonics and Intervention.

During Phonics Assessments

Students Can use a piece of paper to cover the words, so they only read one line at a time. Using this technique will lower confusion by seeing too much on the page at one time and keeps their eyes on the words they need to read.

Administrators Can use your recording sheet to record the students’ correct and incorrect answers and date them when they have mastered them. I recommend using a different color pen for each date you assess, so it’s easy to spot when learners have mastered the skills.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at Littlelephanteacher@gmail.com.

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