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Literacy Assessment Toolkit
Free reading and writing assessments covering print concepts, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, phonics, fluency, spelling, motivation, writing, and more.
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Tools for Teaching.
Resources for Readers.
Assess. Plan. Teach. Learn. Explore free, research-informed literacy tools and resources built for actual classrooms.
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What are you trying to do?
You don't need everything on this page. You just need the right thing for what you're trying to accomplish today.
ASSESS
Start with what the reader can do.
Good instruction starts with good information. These tools help you gather evidence, make sense of it, and look beyond a single score.
Make Sense of the Data
Reading Assessment Analyzer
Enter reading assessment results, examine patterns across measures, and identify reasonable instructional priorities.
Analyze Reading →Look at Writing
Writing Assessment Analyzer
Bring together writing performance, spelling, composition, and engagement to identify strengths and possible next steps.
Analyze Writing →DECIDE
Now what?
Assessment is only useful when it changes what happens next. Start with what you're noticing and work backward through the evidence.
INSTRUCTIONAL DECISION SUPPORT
What Should I Teach Next?
Is the problem decoding? Automaticity? Comprehension? Spelling? Engagement? Or are you not quite sure yet? Follow the evidence before jumping to an instructional solution.
Figure It Out →
Assess.
Gather evidence that tells you something useful.
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Understand.
Find the need beneath the score.
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Teach.
Match instruction to the evidence.
CREATE & TEACH
Make something worth reading.
Once you know what students need, turn the instructional target into something they can actually read, rehearse, discuss, and use.
FREE CLASSROOM TOOL
The Generator
Choose a phonics target, pick a text type, add rehearsal options, and create targeted reading material without spending your planning period staring at a blank screen.
Open The Generator →Targeted Support
Reading Intervention
Explore intervention resources for supporting students who need more explicit, targeted, and intensive reading instruction.
Explore Intervention →Assessment + Technology
Assessment Technology
Explore tools and resources for using technology to make literacy assessment more efficient and instructionally useful.
Explore Assessment Technology →Put It Into Practice
Practice Cases
Work through realistic student profiles, decide what evidence you need, choose instruction, and see what happens next.
Try a Case →BUILD FLUENCY
Stop timing. Start performing.
Fluency is not a race. Give students authentic reasons to reread, rehearse, develop automaticity, and make text sound like language.
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Reader's Theater Scripts
Hundreds of free scripts for meaningful repeated reading. Search by topic, title, occasion, or number of speaking parts and give students a reason to rehearse.
Find a Script →LEARN & LISTEN
Dig a little deeper.
Short professional learning, practical cases, and conversations about literacy research and instruction.
Free Professional Learning
Reading Crash Course
Work through the big ideas in reading instruction—from oral language and phonics to fluency, comprehension, motivation, knowledge building, MTSS, AI, and the Reading Wars.
Take the Crash Course →Your Turn
Practice Cases
Meet students from kindergarten through sixth grade and make the decisions: What do you notice? What would you assess? What would you teach? Did it transfer?
Try the Cases →Listen
Podcasts
Listen to conversations about literacy research, reading instruction, fluency, and translating evidence into classroom practice.
Listen In →MORE RESOURCES
There's more in the toolbox.
A few more places to explore depending on who you are and what brought you here.
For Families
Practical information and resources for families supporting children's reading development at home.
Explore Family Resources →Assessment Technology
Explore technology-supported approaches and tools for gathering and using literacy assessment information.
Explore Assessment Technology →EXPLORE THE RESEARCH
Want to see the evidence?
The classroom resources are only part of the story. Explore the studies, national data, and scholarship behind the work.
National Research
National Reading Instruction Survey
Explore what educators across 46 states and Washington, DC reported about reading instruction, preparation, barriers, leadership, professional learning, research, and AI.
Explore the NRIS →Scholarship
Research & Publications
Explore research on reading fluency, literacy instruction, interventions, motivation, teacher learning, and the research-to-practice connection.
See the Research →Keep Learning
Research to Real Life
Research matters most when it helps us make better decisions for actual readers in actual classrooms.
Keep Learning →
THE ART + SCIENCE OF TEACHING READING
Find the need.
Use the evidence.
Teach the reader.
Free tools and resources for making good literacy instruction a little easier to understand—and actually do.