Reading Assessment and Literacy Resources
Literacy is vital for all students as they begin school and throughout their careers.
Teachers can use DIBELS to gauge a benchmark for students' reading levels. HCOS Teacher Breanne Rousseau has created an Assessing Reading Skills in Literacy resource on literacy assessment, featuring excellent resources on teaching phonetics and phonemics, as well as various assessment tools.
Using Reading Eggs to Assess Students' Lexile Level
Instruct students to log into Reading Eggs with their username and password. (Accounts are set up by your support teacher.) Students receive the placement test upon entering the Subscription. Check with your support teacher to review the results. This video explains how to interpret the placement test scores.
Why Reading Eggs for Improving Student Literacy? Using the five essential keys to reading success, the program unlocks all aspects of learning to read, focusing on a core curriculum of phonics and phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary, comprehension, and reading for meaning. To learn more about the Reading Eggs program, see here.
If you have a student who requires more intensive reading support, please contact your teacher or Learning Support Consultant, who will help your student get started with RAZ-Plus or assign them a DORA test assessment.
Lexile Levelled Books in the Learning Commons
Once you have completed the placement test and determined the Lexile Level corresponding to this chart, you can filter resources by Lexile Level in Reading Eggs, in the Sora reading app, and within our Search Portal (for physical copies of easy readers).
On Sora
- Here is the process for filtering books on Sora according to Lexile Level.
In the Search Portal
- In the Search Portal, refine your search as pictured below:
Levelled Readers on Sora
Lexile-level readers on Sora include the Supersonic Readers and the Decodables (both based on the Science of Reading), along with popular homeschool readers, Bob Books. Read-along books are helpful for students who need to listen and read simultaneously. Further reading on the use of assistive technology may be found here.
Supersonic Readers and Decodables
- Level 0 Lilac
- Level 1 Pink
- Level 2 Red
- Level 3 Yellow
- Level 4 Blue
- Level 4-5 Blue-Green
- Level 5 Green
- Level 6 Orange
- Level 7 Turquoise
- Level 8 Purple
- Level 9 Gold
- Level 10 White
- Level 11 Lime
Other Readers
Resources for Parents
- The Ordinary Parent's Guide To Teaching Reading
- Reading in the Brain
- Reading in the Wild
- Orton Gillingham: 72 Classroom-Ready Lessons to Help Struggling Readers with Dyslexia Learn to Love Reading
- Helping Your Child with Language-Based Difficulties
- Deconstructing Penguins, Parents, Kids and the Bond of Reading
- Reading Rockets offers a rich library of evidence-based classroom strategies to help young children become skilled readers.
- How Children Learn to Read webinar with Margaret Goldberg. (Science of Reading)