Here is a list of skills that your child needs before he/she begins learning to read. Before beginning this program, casually test your child to make sure there are no learning gaps. All of the skills contained on this reading readiness test are age appropriate knowledge that is necessary in educating your "total" child. Any child that is developmentally ready to learn to read should be capable of these readiness skills. Any parent should feel proud to know your child knows all these skills. These are important parent taught skills. Do not say “Yes, my child knows these skills,” test them to know for sure! A child does not have to get all of these responses correct in order to be able to learn to read. This test serves as a baseline and will help you guide your child as he/she learns to read.
If you have a child who is struggling to read, you can test your child using our sight word list. Have your child read to you each of the words on the sight word list. Circle all the words your child knows, this will give your child confidence while you are testing. If your child does not immediately know a word, he/she needs further help learning this sight word. Use our videos, or choose your own way to help your child learn these words. The numbers above each sight word correspond to the day each sight word first appears in the Sight and Sound Reading Program.
Click here for the Sight Word reading test.
