The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys are two surveys that quickly pinpoint a student’s decoding weaknesses.  The Beginning Decoding Survey assesses a student’s ability to read high-frequency words and single-syllable decodable words with consonants, short vowels, digraphs, and blends.  The Advanced Decoding Survey assesses a student’s ability to read single-syllable words with more complex vowel spellings and to read multi-syllable words.

The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys User’s Guide has 7 forms of the Surveys to use for progress monitoring.  Click here for more information about the User’s Guide.

Really Great Reading® is continuing its tradition of offering a complimentary version of Form A of the Diagnostic Decoding Surveys.  Click here for more information about the Complimentary Version of Form A of Diagnostic Decoding Surveys.

Pre-Reading Skills Surveys

Students who do very poorly on the Decoding Skills Surveys should be assessed with the Pre-Reading Skills Surveys.  The Pre-Reading Skills Surveys are also appropriate for assessing students in kindergarten and early first grade to help place them in appropriate beginning reading instruction.  The Pre-Reading Skills Surveys are not yet offered for sale.  However, Really Great Reading offers a complimentary version of the draft Pre-Reading Skills Surveys.  Click here for more information about the Complimentary Version of the Pre-Reading Skills Surveys.

Grouping Matrix™

Really Great Reading’s Grouping Matrix is an on-line, password-protected program that uses scores from a screening assessment and the Diagnostic Decoding Surveys to group students.  Enter the scores for students to receive immediate on-line reports that group students according to their instructional needs for decoding skills.  Click here for more information about the Grouping Matrix.