Reading Assessment and Literacy Resources
Literacy is vital for all students as they begin school and throughout their careers.
We recommend families use our school subscription Reading Eggs to assess students' placement via Lexile Level,
Teachers can use DibelsDIBELS to gauge a benchmark for students' reading levels. HCOS Teacher Breanne Rousseau has created aan OneAssessing StopReading docSkills in Literacy resource on Literacyliteracy Assessmentassessment, withfeaturing excellent resources on teaching phonetics and phonemicsphonemics, andas differentwell toolsas forvarious assessment..assessment tools.
STEPUsing ONEReading Eggs to assess students' placement based on Lexile Level
LogInstruct intostudents to log in to Reading Eggs with yourtheir student account (created by youryou, their teacher) and complete the placement test found on this page.

Why Reading Eggs for Improving Student Literacy?

Learning to read is one of the most important skills children can learn. Reading Eggs makes the learning-to-read journey fun, interactive, and highly rewarding for ages 2–13 – and it’s based on solid scientific research. Using the five essential keys to reading success, the program unlocks all aspects of learning to read for your child,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 needsrequires more intensive reading support, please contact your Learning Support Consultant, who will gethelp your studentsstudent get started onwith RAZ Kids or assign them a DORA test assessment.
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Lexile Levelled Books
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 SORASora reading app, and within our Search Portal (for physical copies of easy readers).
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Lexile-level readers on
SORASora 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.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
PARENT RESOURCES
- 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
yourYour Child with Language-Based Difficulties - Deconstructing Penguins, Parents, Kids and the Bond of Reading
Physical Commons Resources
