Assessment Tools for Emergent Readers

The Los Angeles County Office of Education's 'Teams Educational Resources' has a website that has a host of assessment tools for emergent readers. You will find these assessment sheets extremely useful for ready-to-go tools on phonemes, with isolation and matching exercises for students. Included are beginning sounds, final sounds, blending, rhyme, phoneme segmentation, and more. Tests on spelling inventories monitor word knowledge, while learning records for both reading and writing K-3 are also included.

Scholastic's Teacher Book Wizard

Check out Scholastic's Teacher Book Wizard to help you find books for your students. If you choose the 'BookAlike' (yes, that is one word! LOL) option and pick a topic of interest to them, type it in the search field, select whether you want similar books to be below, at, or above a reading level, click search, and VOILA -- a list of books to choose from. Choose the 'Quick Search' option to find a specific book, an author's works, or book subject by keyword. Select the 'Leveled Search' and get even more specific. There is even an option to choose books by Lexile numbers.

Parents CAN Help!

Was just notified of a wonderful (read ***FREE***) resource for parents to use to help their child with school. It's the Thinkfinity Parent Resources, an exciting collection of online educational resources. Choose any of the subjects below to browse our resources to help students with their homework, provide opportunities for extra practice and skill-building, engage their creativity and much more! This collection will continue to grow, so check back often.