Learning to Write and Spell
Writing
Handwriting
Spelling
Mathematics
Ways to help
Finger Tables

 
Resources and Further Reading
 
1) Useful organisations   9) Decodable Books
2) Assessments   10) Maths Books and Teaching Aids
3) Spelling resources   11) Sound Reading System
4) Lesson Plans   12) Miscellaneous Books
5) Phonic Games   13) What NOT to do
6) Online Videos   14) Web Sites
7) Reference Books   15) Room 101
8) Reading resources and programmes    
 
2) Assessments
 

www.rrf.org.uk/burtinstructions.html
Burt Reading Test. Find your child's Reading Age. copyright © 1976 Scottish Council for Research in Education. All rights reserved. Permission for use has been granted for nonprofit purposes. N.B. this is a word recognition test and the high frequency words may be read as global sight words by students taught by mixed methods using whole language, repetitive texts. It is not necessarily a good test of decoding ability or Alphabet Code knowledge.

www.rrf.org.uk/Schonell%20Spelling%20Test.pdf
Schonell Spelling Test. Find your child's Spelling Age.

Mary Johnson’s Two Sentence Reading Test
http://www.donpotter.net/PDF/Mary%20Johnson%27s%202%20Sentence%20Test.pdf

www.prisk.co.nz/teacherlinks/Daniels_Diack.pdf
Daniels and Diack's spelling test

www.rrf.org.uk/Ruth%20Miskin%20Nonsense%20Word%20Test.pdf
Ruth Miskin's nonsense word test. This is a decoding ability test.

http://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/Administration/uploads/Nonword.pdf
Dyslexia Action's Nonword decoding test.

http://ontrackreading.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/codeknowledgetest.pdf
IMPORTANT: Alphabet Code Knowledge Test. Does your child know the complete Alphabet Code? Do YOU?

Assessments to avoid:

http://www.ednews.org/articles/miscue-analysis-a-critque-.html
Miscue Analysis

http://d-edreckoning.blogspot.com/2009/07/when-is-decoding-error-not-error.html
Critical Reading Inventory