Using the Assess Phonics/Word Analysis tool to refine student placement

You can use Read Live's Assess Phonics/Word Analysis tool to assess and adjust a student's placements in Read Naturally Live and Word Warm-ups Live. To do so: 

1. Open the Teacher menu in Word Warm-ups Live or Read Naturally Live, and choose Assess Phonics/Word Analysis.
2. Choose Assess Letter Sounds Knowledge to test the student on the sounds of the letters of the alphabet
   or
   Choose Assess Decoding Skills to test the student on words and word parts. 
3. If you need help with administering the phonics assessment, review the Assessment instructions PDF.
4. Make appropriate selections from the Assessment Level and Skills to assess dropdowns based on your knowledge of the student. 
   The default selections on this page are based on information Read Live has about the student's previous phonics assessments; Read Naturally Live assignment; and grade. 
5. Choose Start Selected Assessment to begin assessing the student.
6. Ask the student to clearly pronounce each word part or word, and then to wait until you tell them to continue.
   If the student makes an error, do not provide the correct response.
7. Score the student's response as follows:
   1. Choose Correct or Incorrect.
      Note: If you choose Incorrect, the Response field will allow you to enter what the student said using the letters (or sound symbols) that make sense to you (e.g., if the test item was "fon" and the student said "phone," you could enter phone, fone, or fōn in the notes field).
   2. Enter any additional information you want recorded about the student's response under Notes (e.g., you might enter SD for slowly decoded, SC for self corrected, correct vowel sound).
8. Choose Next to continue to the next item.
9. As the student completes each set of 5 or 6 items, review the student's performance. 
   When the student correctly answered 80% or more of the test items, you can choose to continue with another set of items or to see suggested assignments based on the current assessment. 
   When the student does not answer 80% of the items in a set correctly, the assessment will suggest assignments related on that set.
10. Choose Next.
    If the student continues to the next set of items, return to step 6 above. 
    If the student did not continue to the next set, a list of possible assignments based on the most recent assessment is shown. 
11. Choose an assignment from the suggestions on the right side of the page. 
    These assignments are based on the phonics assessment the student has just taken, along with other information Read Live has about the student. 
12. The phonics assessment can add access, and an assignment, to Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, or both. 
13. Note that continuing with the current assignment is always among the options provided. 
14. Choose Next.
15. Choose Yes to confirm any new assignment.
    The student's application access and assignments are changed to reflect the choices you made as a result of the phonics assessment.