Reading Assessment by Reading Words - Decoding

The San Diego Quick Assessment

* A Rough Estimate of reading grade level.

Each box represents a grade level. If a child misses no more than one of the ten words in the box, that is the child's independent reading level. Two errors suggest his/her instructional level. Three or more errors indicate the frustration level.

Explain to child, "Try to read out loud each word in each box in order. I will listen to write down your mispronunciations to show you which parts of the word you already know after the test. I will also help you with the parts you didn't know."

Some teachers recommend continuing the test until the child misses three words in a box.

1 road live thank when bigger how always night spring today	2 our please myself town early send wide believe quietly carefully	3 city middle moment frightened exclaimed several lonely drew since straight
4 decided served amazed silent wrecked improved certainly entered realized interrupted	5 successful business develop considered discussed behaved splendid acquainted escaped squirming	6 bridge commercial abolish trucker apparatus elementary comment necessity gallery relativity
7 amber dominion sundry capillary impetuous blight wrest enumerate daunted condescent	8 capacious limitation pretext intrigue delusion immaculate ascent acrid binocular embankment	9 conscientious isolation molecule ritual momentous vulnerable kinship conservatism jaunty inventive
10 zany jerking nausea gratuitous linear inept legality aspen prevaricate barometer	11 galore rotunda capitalism amnesty risible exonerate superannuate luxuriate piebald crunch