Free reading assessments
Reading Assessments
We believe reading assessments should be part of the learning process. That is why we built our reading assessments into our weekly reading lessons. Real-time data provides up-to-the-minute information about your readers while students set goals, receive engaging feedback, and deepen their comprehension reading skills every week.
Our diagnostic, benchmark, and summative assessments are always working. Learn more about Quindew's Free Reading Program and how to access assessment results with Clarity Data.
Diagnostic Reading Assessment
Quindew's embedded Diagnostic Reading Assessment is unique and effective. Students continue to learn and engage in the reading process while they are assessed.
Our reading diagnostic happens during Season 1. The purpose of Season 1 is to identify each student's reading level.
Throughout Season 1, Quindew selects a mix of informative, argument, and narrative texts. Quindew's reading program is adaptive, so students are issued texts that best match their current reading ability.
Quindew's Diagnostic Reading Assessment consists of 96 standard-based questions that are broken up over 12 Quests (or reading lessons). The diagnostic takes 4-6 weeks depending on how many Quests students take each week. This extended period of time produces a more accurate assessment, allowing students to engage for 15-20 minutes at a time over multiple weeks.
At the end of Season 1, Quindew's Diagnostic Reading Assessment is complete and a reading level is identified. Students are ready for the next Season and will receive 2-3 uniquely designed reading lessons (or Quests) each week as they prepare for their benchmark and summative reading assessments.
Benchmark Reading Assessments
Quindew's embedded Benchmark Reading Assessments provide performance snapshots every 4-6 weeks.
Each Season offers two Benchmark Reading Assessments. Students can potentially take up to 8 Benchmark Reading Assessments over the school year.
As a way to increase engagement and maximize growth on benchmark assessments, students can monitor and plan for upcoming Benchmark Reading Assessments.
Teachers can also monitor when benchmarks become available.
Summative Reading Assessments
At the end of each Season, students complete a Summative Reading Assessment. These reading assessments are used to measure your students' reading growth. Our reading program compares how students did on the initial Reading Diagnostic to their most current Summative Reading Assessment. Teachers, schools, and districts can receive growth data up to 4 times in a school year!
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FREE Reading Assessment Tools for Teachers for Easier Testing
When it comes to completing reading assessments, there is always so much to do! Teachers have to gather their materials, prepare both students and parents, find testing checklists, and keep track of important data.
I know you are already doing so much to serve your students, so I wanted to help make reading assessments easier for you!
I decided to put together The Reading Assessment Teacher Toolkit – a free downloadable pdf that has tons of resources and tools for you! This toolkit is packed with checklists, parent notes, and testing signs to make testing a little lot more efficient! Let’s jump right into what all is included!
Phonemic Awareness Checklist
Building phonemic awareness is the foundation of reading, and young readers need strong phonemic awareness for success in reading. I included a checklist of the skills students should be working on mastering to help you get a picture of where each child is.
Phonics Skills Assessment
Next in the reading assessments toolkit you’ll find a phonics skills assessment. This list will help you understand and get a solid picture of how your readers decode words. You’ll be able to see if there is a certain skill (digraphs, vowel teams, etc.
) that they struggle with.
Dictation Assessment
The dictation assessment will help you see how your students take the knowledge and skills they have and write what they know. Reading is input, and writing is output.
Running Record Cheat Sheet
A huge piece of guided reading assessments is running records. Instead of having to flip around in different books to find coding symbols and percentages, I put everything you’ll need in one handy cheat sheet. Just print it off and stick it in your guided reading binder!
Comprehension Questions for Reading Assessments
Part of gathering a picture of the whole reader is to ask comprehension questions after reading a text. Some books may include specific questions to ask, but most do not. I compiled a list of comprehension questions to ask for both fiction and nonfiction texts that will work with any book!
Reading Strategies and Skills Checklist
Next, to help you keep track of skills and strategies students use for your reading assessments, there is a checklist that you can use throughout the year.
This makes data tracking easy. Plus, you can use it to help write effective lesson plans to address areas of need.
Dolch and Fry Sight Word Lists
Help students get warmed up for assessments and find out how many sight words students know. In the reading assessments toolkit, you’ll see both the Dolch and Fry sight word lists for kindergarten, first, and second grade.
3 Parent Conference Forms for Reading Assessments
Another big piece of reading assessments is keeping parents informed of what their child can do, what their child is working on now, and where you want them to go next.
For each grade in kinder through second grade, there is a parent conference form you can fill out. This will help guide you through the conference and give parents a great picture of their student as a reader. You can also use these with progress reports, too!
Table Top Testing Tents
To help minimize distractions during testing, use the table tents to remind students not to interrupt unless it is important.
I teach my students about the 3 Bs – blood, barf, bathroom. I recently adding bullying to my list, too! Just set up the tent on your table and assess away!
Testing Door Signs
Remind students (and staff) that you’re doing reading assessments with your students by hanging one of the cute door signs out on your door. If we can minimize distractions, we can provide a great testing environment for students.
The Reading Assessment Teacher Toolkit was carefully designed with kindergarten, first, and second grade teachers in mind. Be sure to download it today for your beginning, middle, or end of year reading assessments.
If you want to dive deeper into reading assessments for guided reading, sign up for the waiting list for Rethinking Guided Reading. This online course is self-paced and has tons of resources for you like printables, teaching videos, and helpful forms.
I’ll coach you through everything you need to know about guided reading – assessments, writing and implementing effective lessons, meeting with groups while distance learning, and how to complete and read running records.
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Want to use the latest research to boost your readers during small groups? This FREE guide is packed with engaging ideas to help them grow!
Read speed test. Online simulator for developing reading speed and awareness skills in 2021!
Reading speed is an important indicator not only for schoolchildren, who regularly check it. It is very important for an adult in the modern world to be able to navigate in huge flows of information. A reading speed test will help you determine your current level and see if you need to work on improving this skill or if you are reading fluently enough.
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1. How to check reading speed?
2. How can I check my reading speed myself?
3. How to test a child's reading speed?
4. What reading speed is considered normal for adults and children?
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How to choose the right text to test reading speed?
6. The book "Everything you wanted to know about speed reading, but were afraid to ask"
How to check reading speed? nine0029
The easiest way is to take a stopwatch (you can use the application on your phone), a text to check your reading speed and read it at a normal pace for one minute. It is important that the text is non-technical, does not contain highly specialized terms and concepts, and is not familiar to the reader. The text should not be too primitive. The testee must see the text for the first time so that the results are not artificially inflated.
But what do you care about speed, if you don't understand with what awareness you absorb the text? :) nine0003
A much better way to find out your reading speed is to take a free online test. To do this, sit back, enter your name in the form above, press the button and you will immediately see the text that you need to read, slowly, trying to understand everything that is written.
When the entire text is read - click on the button at the very bottom. The program will automatically determine the reading speed and prompt you to answer a few questions to understand the degree of assimilation of the material. As a result of testing, you will receive not only the result of your reading speed and awareness, but also recommendations for improving your reading technique in the format of the book "Everything you wanted to know about speed reading, but were afraid to ask." Enter a name. Click the button and find out your real reading speed. Have a good day. nine0003
How can I test my reading speed myself?
We have prepared for you a tool with which you can independently check the speed of reading. Our tool include a certain amount of text that you need to read as quickly as possible. You will then have the opportunity to answer a series of questions about the text, allowing the program to determine your level of understanding. Based on the data received, a result and a certificate are issued.
This certificate can be shared with your friends on social networks and challenge them to a battle to test the speed and awareness of reading :). nine0003
If you want to do it yourself, you can do it according to the following scenario. A text of medium complexity is taken, located on one sheet. You will need an assistant who will keep track of the time and will be able to test the level of your understanding of the information. Check algorithm:
Simultaneously with the start command and the start of the stopwatch, you begin to silently read the text.
When the text is finished, you say stop - time stops.
Then you need to answer a few questions regarding the content (reading speed implies a full reading comprehension). nine0003
The last step is to count the words in the text and determine the average number of words per minute (words in the text can be counted before reading).
This is the certificate you can get based on the results of passing the test
How to check the reading speed of a child?
A child's reading speed can be tested in a similar way.
The child should read aloud, at least in elementary school. Then you can switch to the usual way of checking for adults. nine0003
Schools often test reading skills by counting the number of words read per minute. This gives a small error, since words come in different sizes, but a similar verification method can also be used.
What reading speed is considered normal for adults and children?
The average reading speed for an adult is 200-230 words per minute. Below average, but an acceptable rate is 150-200 words per minute. Adults who read more than 230 words per minute are considered fast readers. For the speed reading technique, the optimal speed is 350-400 words per minute. nine0003
In children, the indicators are dynamic and change depending on age. Approximate norms used in elementary school:
20-30 words per minute for first grade;
45-60 words per minute for second grade;
70-85 words per minute for third grade;
90-125 words per minute for fourth grade.
How to choose the right text to test reading speed?
The criteria for selecting text to test reading speed are identical for adults and children. The only difference is the volume and complexity of the information. The text must match the following parameters: nine0003
medium difficulty appropriate for age;
the absence of specific unfamiliar words or their minimum number;
no dialogs;
location on one page;
large, comfortable to read font;
lack of pictures and other distracting elements.
In our tool for testing reading speed and comprehension, we tried to take into account all these factors so that the resulting tool would be convenient for both adults and children. At the same time, he gave a fairly clear answer to the question about the real reading speed. nine0003
It should be remembered that reading speed is a variable parameter, which decreases if a person rarely sits down at a book, and increases with constant reading.
There are many special techniques aimed at significantly increasing the speed of reading text information.
Everything you wanted to know about speed reading but were afraid to ask test. So don't waste a second,
go back to the very top of the page and go take the test!Reading speed test online is simple, convenient and fast
We have already written so much here about how to correctly measure your reading speed, achieve awareness and interpret the results, that every second of delay before you pass the online reading speed test and receive a personal certificate is just like death. Return to the very beginning of the page, enter your name in the field under the video and go to the enchanting world of unfamiliar texts and tricky questions :). nine0003
📖 Reading speed Q&A section
📕 What formula is used to calculate reading speed?
If it’s very short, then the formula for calculating the reading speed is as follows: V = (Q / T) x K.
This formula allows you to get a real figure for reading speed with a correlation to the coefficient of meaningfulness. You can read more about the formula here in this article .
📗 What books do you recommend reading to develop speed reading? nine0006
We have compiled a list of the most useful books for the development of speed reading and posted it in a separate post on the blog. The list is constantly updated and gives an idea of the main books with which you can develop speed reading skills.
📘 What if I want to increase my reading speed?
You can start by learning the theory, or you can download our workbooks , which we have created especially for those who who wants to start learning speed reading. There are two of them: one notebook for adults, the second for children. Contains some theory and practical exercises designed for several weeks of regular classes.
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📙 How to check a child's reading speed?
The reading speed test, which is located on our website, is suitable for both adults, as well as for children. We specifically tried to choose mostly literary texts that will be easy to read. to understand the child. Just go to the reading speed test page from the link above, enter child's name and start reading. Then the program will do everything for you.
📔 I want to check my reading speed online for free. How to do it? nine0006
Easier nowhere. The tool, which is located at https://bukva.info/rapid/ , was created just for this. You just enter your name, read the text and answer the questions. The program monitors the speed of your reading and its meaningfulness. After answering the questions, you will receive a certificate with your result. The certificate can be shared with friends in social networks :).
📓 What is the "Read Fast" project?
Read Fast is a project dedicated to the problem of fast and conscious reading. We believe that you can read 3-4 times faster. However, the quality of memory reading material will only increase. Let's try together :). nine0003
Best reading time calculators 2023: service overview
What are the best reading time calculators and how to use them? We at the Contentim studio regularly write texts for presentations at presentations, conferences, seminars and other public events. We prepare materials for blogs and estimate how much time readers will spend reading.
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In copywriting since 2013, higher education in art history (theater critic) and postgraduate studies (GITIS). He is fluent in English, Russian, knows Czech and French well. In the Contenteam agency, she leads projects and edits texts on marketing, advertising, investments, financial technologies, IT.
Editor-in-chief for materials in English, leading marketer. nine0003
Have you ever needed to write a speech for “exactly 25 minutes” and not a second longer? How about time to read a blog post?
If yes, then you should be aware of a problem that an inexperienced speaker usually doesn't think about until the day before the presentation: time is limited. How to fit into it? A word-to-minute converter comes to the rescue. Converting words to minutes, while not 100 percent accurate, gives writers a yardstick against which they can measure the length of their speech. nine0003
The same is true for blogging. Many resources have a plate showing the approximate time required to read the text. Thus, you will not only know how many words are in a 5-minute speech, but also how long it will take to read a material containing, for example, 2000 words.
The benefits of the word calculator:
- You will know how many words your speech consists of.
- Reading time calculators are free, as long as you have an internet connection.
nine0173 - The converter is very convenient and simple. The user interface is friendly and easy to use even for the first time.
- Speech to Minute Converter is quite fast and efficient: you get an answer within a few seconds after entering text.
- The ability to quickly change your 7-minute speech to a 3-minute one if the need arises.
- Ability to save time by not manually checking speech length.
We at the Contentim studio regularly write texts for presentations at presentations, conferences, seminars and other public events. We prepare materials for blogs and estimate how much time readers will spend getting acquainted with the article. In this article, we will tell you what reading calculators exist and how to use them. nine0003
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How Words to Minutes Calculator Works
With this tool you can instantly convert words to minutes and find out how long it takes to read a text.
Nuance! The calculator shows only the approximate time of pronouncing or reading the text, it may vary depending on the individual speed of perception of the material.
The word calculator is easy to use:
- Enter the number of words in the text field. nine0173
- If you want to evaluate reading aloud, adjust the speech speed.
- The result will show how long it takes to give a presentation or read an article.
In addition, the words per minute calculator can determine how many words are needed to fill a certain amount of time. Some converters calculate the phrases and then trim the text to match the time frame.
What are the best free and without registration reading calculators now
| Service | Interesting additional features | Our rating is |
| SpeechMinutes | Speech rate control | 5 |
| Copywritely | Counting words in text, regulation of speech speed, detection of errors in text | 5 |
| WordsToTime | Text word count, reading speed regulation | 5 |
| 5Star Essays | Text word count, speech speed regulation, ability to listen to the text (online speaker available), you can set the number of words for timing and vice versa | 4 |
| EduBirdie | Counting words in the text, regulation of speech speed, the ability to listen to the text (there is an online speaker), you can set the number of words for calculating the time and vice versa, additional services for editing the text | 4 |
| SFMedia | Counting words in a text, regulation of speech speed, setting normal pauses between words and sentences | 4 |
SpeechMinutes
Free and simple speech calculator, no registration required to use.
We enter the number of words in your text, the reading speed from slow (100 words per minute) to fast (160 words per minute) and get the result in minutes. nine0003
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Copywritely
Paste in the text to find out the word count, and by selecting the speaking rate, you'll get an estimated speaking time. In addition, it offers a built-in dictionary (grammar check), counting the number of words in pages and other text editing applications. The site is available in English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. nine0003
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Wordtotime
Preparation Calculator in WORDS TO TIME, which is aim text and get the result. Site functions are available without registration.
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5StarEssays
This calculator, in addition to counting words in the text, allows you to choose the right number of words for your speech speed.
Let's say you need to speak with a time limit of 5 minutes. Using this calculator, it is quite easy to calculate the correct amount of speech.
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EduBurdie
The calculator from EduBirdie will measure the number of words in a text, calculate the reading time at a given speed, and also calculate how many words can be read in a certain time. An interesting feature of this calculator is the ability to run your text through an online speaker to roughly imagine how your text will sound.
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SFMedia
This is a simple and convenient calculator for calculating the time of reading a text. To calculate the length of a speech or article, all you have to do is type or paste the text and click Calculate.
There is a function of setting normal pauses between words and sentences for a more accurate calculation of the time required to read the text.
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Manual counting
Want to know how fast you read compared to others? Fast reading with a high level of reading comprehension is a useful skill that will make work, study, and reading fun more efficient. Reading rates for fiction and non-fiction will be different: people read fiction faster because they are usually more interesting.
How do I do a manual count? First you need to determine the number of words in the selected passage that you are reading.
Most text editors can name the number of words in a text. But if the passage you are using is not digitally available, you can count the words, or you can estimate the number of words by counting the words in a line and multiplying them by the number of lines in the passage.
