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STEP 1: Complete the reading tests

STEP 2: Complete the spelling tests

STEP 3: Select the appropriate multisensory reading program

STEP 4: Select the appropriate multisensory spelling program

To choose an appropriate Cracking the ABC Code program, you need to know a student’s age-equivalent reading and spelling age and their phonic knowledge. It is best if this information can be obtained from recognised standardised assessments. If your child’s literacy has recently been assessed you can use those results. If the age-equivalent scores have not been provided, you can ask the assessor for this information. However, if this information is not available the tests below will give you an approximate age-equivalent score to help in the selection process.

It is critical that when you administer these test that you:

Do NOT provide any feedback (i.e., do not indicate if the answer is correct or incorrect).
Do NOT show the student the test before or after the assessment.
Do NOT specifically teach any of the words in the assessments.
Keep the assessment moving along. If the student doesn’t know how to read or spell a word, just go immediately onto the next word.
Follow the instructions written at the top of the assessment.

Now complete the spelling tests to determine the student’s approximate current age-equivalent spelling level and the types of mistakes being made.

Click on the level to find the resources.

If your child can decode well but has difficulty with comprehension choose a suitable level Reading for Comprehension book.

READING AGE SCORED ON READING TEST

<6yrs 2mths

6yrs 3mths-
6yrs 6mths

6yrs 6mths-
7yrs

7yrs-8yrs

8yrs-10yrs

>10yrs

Doesn’t know alphabet

Knows alphabet not digraphs

Knows
a few digraphs

Click on the level to find the resources.

If your child’s difficulty is writing rather than spelling, choose an appropriate Writing Program.

	SPELLING AGE SCORED ON SPELLING TEST
	<5yrs 6mths	5yrs 6mths-8yrs	8yrs-14yrs 6mths
Level 1 Reading Program
Level 2A Reading Program