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Diagnostic Tools / Check 1 font preview
Check 1 — Letter Preview (not the real assessment yet)
All 52 letter stimuli in the proposed assessment font, at roughly the size students will see one at a time. This screen is for font approval only -- recording and scoring are not built yet.
Uppercase (fixed order)
Lowercase (fixed order)
Large single-letter view (uppercase I, lowercase l and i, lowercase a, lowercase g):
Check 1
Say the name of each letter
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 1 review
Check 1 — Letter Identification review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded recording, then tap each letter to score it.
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next
What to Teach Next
Select a reading check to access instructional resources, practice materials, and targeted rechecks.
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next /
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 2 / Interactive 44-Sound Slideshow
Interactive 44-Sound Slideshow
Click the small speaker icon on a sound slide to hear your recording of that sound. Slides never play audio or move on by themselves.
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 2 / Sound Recording Studio
Teacher Sound Recording Studio
Record your own voice saying each of the 44 sounds. Pick any sound, in any order.
Keep your recordings safe
Your saved recordings belong to this browser on this computer until you export them. They do not sync to other computers. Clearing browser data, or using another computer, can remove them unless you export them first. Drafts you have not saved are lost when you leave this page.
The ZIP holds one audio file per sound plus a manifest that lists which sound each file belongs to. To use the audio inside PowerPoint, the ZIP’s README explains the conversion step (WebM does not play in every PowerPoint).
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 2 / Sounds & Spelling Patterns
Sounds & Spelling Patterns
Teaching slides only. Browsing them does not change any assessment, score, or placement. The speaker and camera icons printed on the slides are placeholders for recordings that do not exist yet; they do not play or record anything.
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 1
What to Teach Next — Letter Names
Short next step after Check 1. Open the slides, teach only the letters the student missed, then decide what to do next.
Student (optional)
Targeted Recheck
Printable Letter Identification Recheck — Forms A and B
Optional paper forms for informally rechecking letter names after targeted instruction. Printing or downloading them does not change Check 1 scores, mastery, or unlock anything.
Form A — Initial Letter Identification Recheck
Form B — Follow-Up Letter Identification Recheck
Purpose
These forms let you informally recheck letter identification after targeted instruction. Each form has uppercase and lowercase letters, repeated and in mixed order.
Part A — Point to the Letter
- Name a selected uppercase or lowercase letter.
- The student points to the matching letter on the page.
- Check whether the student found the correct letter.
- Repeat with different target letters, including previously missed letters.
Part B — Say the Letter Names
- The student looks at the letter grid.
- The student names the letters aloud.
- Note incorrect responses, skipped letters, or letters that need more instruction.
- Use the results to decide what to reteach next.
You may focus on the letters a student previously missed instead of asking every student to do every item. This is not timed. These forms are about letter names and letter identification, not letter sounds.
Suggested sequence
- Initial instruction: review Check 1 results, find the missed uppercase and lowercase letters, and use the five-minute mini-lesson and the approved slides.
- Form A: use it after targeted practice. Record errors and letters that need more instruction.
- Additional practice: keep teaching the letters that are still difficult.
- Form B: use it later, with the different letter arrangement. Compare the student’s performance on the target letters.
Forms A and B use the same sample set of target letters in different arrangements. They are not standardized or validated equivalent test forms. Use the editable Word files to change the letters for an individual student.
How to use these slides
- Look at which letters the student missed.
- Open Uppercase or Lowercase and jump to that letter.
- Point to the letter and say its name.
- Have the student say the name, then find it in the practice row.
- Fix mistakes right away. Keep it quick.
Teach only the letters the student missed, not all 26. These slides teach letter NAMES. Letter sounds are Check 2.
Paper practice (optional)
Write the letters the student missed on a sheet of paper. The student copies each letter a few times on the page and says its name every time they write it.
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Check 2
Letter sounds
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 2 prompts
Record the Check 2 vowel prompts
Read each script exactly as written, in your own voice. These play to the student before they answer -- never say the target sound itself, only the keyword question.
Export the file to send to me to bake in for good, or Load it onto another computer.
Home / Directions recordings
Record the student directions
Read each script exactly as written, in your own voice. These are directions only -- never read aloud on an assessment-item screen, so they can never give away an answer. Until you record one, students just see the text.
Export the file to send to me to bake in for good, or Load it onto another computer.
Home / Add new student
Activate a placeholder student
Pick a placeholder slot, type the student’s first name and last initial, then tap Activate. Once activated, the slot works exactly like any other student -- one-shot checks, cold read, and retell all apply normally.
Home / Check 2 review
Check 2 — Letter-Sound Knowledge review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded video, then tap each letter to score it.
Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 2
What to Teach Next — Letter Sounds
Teaching slideshows and printable sound cards for the letter sounds a student still needs after Check 2. No student needs to be picked.
Student (optional)
Teaching Slideshows and Recording Studio
Interactive 44-Sound Slideshow
45 slides: a sound menu and one slide for each of the 44 sounds
Sounds & Spelling Patterns
60 slides with a picture for each sound: a menu for each of 7 categories and 51 sound and spelling-pattern slides
Teaching slides only. Browsing them does not change any assessment, score, or placement. The speaker and camera icons on the slides are placeholders; no recordings exist for this deck yet.
Teacher Sound Recording Studio
Record your voice for each sound, check progress, and export or restore recordings.
Letter-Sound Teaching and Practice
Teacher Sound Cards — 44 Sounds
6 pages, 8 cards per page, with cutting lines
Student Practice Sound Cards — 44 Sounds
6 pages, 8 cards per page, with cutting lines
How to Use the Check 2 Sound Cards
- Review the student’s Check 2 results.
- Identify the letter sounds that need more instruction.
- Select the matching teacher and student sound cards.
- Sit facing the student and clearly model the target sound.
- Let the student watch your mouth as you make the sound.
- Ask the student to make the sound.
- Show the printed letter or spelling that goes with the sound.
- Ask the student to make the sound on their own.
- Correct right away and give more practice when needed.
Pick only the sounds that fit this student’s needs. The full set of cards is not a required sequence that every student must complete.
Students learning English
Students learning English may produce certain sounds differently because of their first-language background. Model English sounds explicitly, provide opportunities for listening and repetition, and distinguish language development from demonstrated gaps in letter-sound knowledge.
31 assessment targets vs. 44 teaching cards
The Check 2 assessment checks 31 targets: consonant letter sounds, short vowels, and long vowels. The 44 cards are a wider teaching library of English sounds and spelling patterns. They are two different lists. The cards do not change Check 2, its scoring, accepted answers, or what unlocks next.
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Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 3
What to Teach Next — Phonemic Awareness
Short teaching lessons for students who need more practice with the sounds in spoken words. Informal instruction only; it does not change the scored Check 3 assessment.
Phonemic Awareness Lessons
Beginning Sounds
Check 3 / Item 1 • 6–8 min • 1–4 students
Use when a student has difficulty identifying the first sound in a spoken word.
Includes the teaching routine, teacher support, and a printable observation sheet.
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Teacher Dashboard / What to Teach Next / Check 3 / Beginning Sounds
Beginning Sounds
Check 3 / Item 1 • Teacher copy. Do not show this screen to students.
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Check 3
Listen and answer
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 3 prompts
Record the Check 3 prompts
Read each script exactly as written, in your own voice. These play to the student before they answer -- never say the target word/answer itself beyond what's written here.
Export the file to send to me to bake in for good, or Load it onto another computer.
Home / Check 3 review
Check 3 — Phonemic Awareness review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded video, then score each item. Teacher judgment is authoritative -- accent alone is never an error.
Check 4
Read each word
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 4 review
Check 4 — Decoding review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded recording, then tap each word to score it.
Check 5
Read each word
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 5 review
Check 5 — Automatic Word Recognition review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded recording, then tap each word to score it.
Check 6
Read each word
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 6 review
Check 6 — Morphology (6A) review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded recording, then tap each word to score it.
Check 6B
Choose the best answer
Home / Check 6B review
Check 6B — Understand It review
Pick a class, then a student, to see their auto-scored results.
Check 6C
Build the word
Home / Check 6C review
Check 6C — Build It review
Pick a class, then a student, to see their auto-scored results.
Check 7
Read each word
Tap Allow when asked.
Home / Check 7 review
Check 7 — Multisyllabic Word Analysis review
Pick a class, then a student. Open the student’s downloaded recording, then tap each word to score it.
Home / Instructional Groups
Instructional Groups
Who should I teach together, and what should I teach them? Groups are recomputed from Checks 1–7 each time you open this screen -- the program recommends, you decide.
Provisional recommendations — based on configurable draft thresholds, not yet finalized instructional cut scores. This groups by decoding/foundational-skill evidence only; it never diagnoses language ability or English proficiency.
Instructional Groups / Group
Group detail
Instructional Groups / Coming soon
Coming soon
This connects to the shared Read It / Hear It / Say It / Write It / Build-Practice-It pathways using this group's shared targets — not built yet.
Settings / Data Management
Data Management
Back up your Reading Foundations scoring, grouping, and settings data, or restore it on a new device or after a move to a new web address. This never includes student audio/video — those stay in Canvas.
Export Teacher Data
Downloads one backup file with everything below, in JSON format.
Import Teacher Data
Choose a Reading Foundations backup file. Nothing changes until you review the preview and choose Continue Import.
Bridges Unit 1
Choose your group,
Tap your next group. Follow the steps.
Final read
Read all of these out loud, one time. Follow the yellow phrase.
My groups / My points
My points today
Home / Scoreboard
Today's scoreboard
Team scores are the total points every teammate earned today. Green counts from school; blue home points count double.
All students — fluency scores
Only reads marked “Score” count (Day 1 cold reads, or anything you marked Score this read).
| Student | Passage level | WCPM | Accuracy | Date | Growth |
|---|
Change reader / ★ 0
Home / Teacher
Record the models
For each word, record two things in your own voice: the word by itself, and the whole sentence. Tap Record, read it, tap Stop — each one saves by itself.
Record once. Export the file to send to me to bake in for good, or Load it onto another computer so your voice is there too.
All words
Green means both parts are recorded. Tap any one to jump to it.
Home / Settings
Settings
Default is Tap: the student taps to move the yellow phrase along at their own speed. Switch a student to Pacer when they read accurately and are ready to build speed — the phrases advance on their own, and a Pause button lets them catch a breath.
Put each student on a team. At the end of class, open the Scoreboard to show team standings. Use the dash to leave a student off a team.
Enter each class’s code once on this computer so the Scoreboard counts every student’s device. Give students their class link with the code in it (
?c=CODE) in Canvas, so they never have to type it.Back up your scoring, grouping, and settings data, or restore it on a new device.
Home / Status
What’s real right now
Working
- Teacher records the word alone and the whole sentence, in your own voice, for all 27 words.
- Student hears the word, hears the sentence, slides a finger pacer that lights the current word and dims the ones behind it, reads it out loud, and records a final read.
- The final read saves as a file the student turns in through Canvas.
- Colors and dark/light are student-selectable and remembered on the computer.
- Teacher can Export all recordings to one file, and Load that file onto any other computer so your voice is there too.
- No text-to-speech anywhere — the only voices are yours and the student’s.
Partly working / honest limits
- Tapping a single word replays the whole sentence so the student hears that word in context. Per-word audio for every word isn’t recorded — the “Hear the word” button covers the target word only. True tap-any-word audio would mean recording every word separately; that’s a later choice, not faked here.
- The listen sweep moves evenly across the sentence for the length of your recording. It is a pacing guide, not exact word timing.
- Microphone and file save need the page opened from a real web link (Canvas), not a file on the desktop.
Not built (on purpose)
- Automatic pronunciation scoring — never faked. The student and teacher listen and judge.
Menu / Fluency
Tap Allow when asked.
Tell What You Read
You can use these:
Home / Fluency review
Fluency & retell review
Pick a class, then a student, to review fluency attempts and record your decision.
Home / Word Practice group locks
Lock or unlock groups
Pick a class, then a student, to lock or unlock any Word Practice group for them. Auto follows the normal rule -- finish one group to open the next.