The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys 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 seven 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.

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 1st 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 online, 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 online reports that group students according to their instructional needs for decoding skills. Click here for more information about the Grouping Matrix.