Identifying and Grouping Students for Phonics Blitz
Students who will benefit from Phonics Blitz lessons are identified through a simple assessment process, which takes about 3 to 7 minutes per student.
Students read a grade level passage for one-minute and the words correct per minute (WCPM) and accuracy rate scores are recorded. (Many schools give DIBELS or AIMSweb, and scores from those passages can be used.) Any student who meets grade level WCPM benchmark and reads with at least 97% accuracy demonstrates grade-level reading skills and does not need to take the Decoding Surveys.
All students who either read below the grade level WCPM benchmark or read with less than 97% accuracy take the Really Great Reading Beginning and Advanced Decoding Survey in which they read words in isolation.
Schools enter the WCPM and accuracy rate scores from oral reading and the Decoding Surveys scores into Really Great Reading’s Grouping Matrix. We will give you a report that groups the students based on assessment scores. Some students may need more intensive instruction than Phonics Blitz, and Really Great Reading’s Grouping Matrix will also identify those students, as well as students who are strong decoders.
Contact Really Great Reading at info@reallygreatreading.com or call toll free at 866-401-READ (7323) to get more information about oral reading assessments and the Beginning and Advanced Decoding Surveys.
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