Do you have a placement test that can be done before students begin?

Yes, you can use our Reading Doctor Decoding test (RD-DTA), to establish where you need to place a student in the program.

It assesses a students ablility to decode using nonwords and provides suggested starting levels for Reading Doctor Online based on their results.

The test takes about 5 minutes to administer to a student and will indicate which part of the Reading Doctor Online sequence (Part I, II or III) the student should be placed in. If the test suggests:

Part I - Basic Skills  

Begin at this activity: Single Letter Graphemes: s,a,t,p,i,n,e. This is the beginning of the sequence. The program will begin teaching the student single letter grapheme knowledge as well as CVC, CCVC and CVCC blending & decoding.

Part II - Intermediate Skills  

Begin at this activity: Split Digraph Decoding 1. The program will assume that the student can successfully read CVC, CCVC and CVCC words. Next, it will teach the student to read words containing the more common 2+ letter graphemes, such as 'ch, th, ee, ai, er etc) 

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Part III - Advanced Skills  

Begin at this activity: Longer Graphemes 2: kn,ph,wr,soft c,soft g,ge,dge,gn. The program will assume that the student can successfully read CVC, CCVC and CVCC words as well as words containing the most common 2+ letter graphemes. Next, it will teach the student to read words containing less common 2+ letter graphemes, such as 'ph, eigh, ew, oar' etc. 

You can access the placement test through the following link: ReadingDoctor Decoding Test