PRIDE Reading Program Placement Check
- Does your student recognize most of the lowercase consonant letters in the alphabet?
- Does your student know most of the sounds of the consonant letters in the alphabet?
- Can your student print most of the lowercase consonant letters in the alphabet?
- Can your student identify the beginning and ending sounds in a word?
If YES to all, move on. If NO to one or more, click on the button below to see if our Beginning Letters & Sounds Program is the proper placement for your student:
- Can your student read and spell with short vowels a, e, i, o, u?
- Can your student read and spell using digraphs sh, th, ch, wh?
- Can your student read and spell with the FLOSS rule ff, ll, ss, zz?
- Can your student read and spell with beginning and ending blends with short vowels?
If YES to all, move on. If NO to one or more, click on the button below to see if our Yellow Book 1 Program is the proper placement for your student:
- Can your student read and spell with long vowels a, e, i, o, u?
- Can your student read and spell 2-syllable words?
- Can your student read and spell with welded sounds such as ang, ung, ink, onk, etc.?
If YES to all, move on. if NO to one or more, click on the button below to see if our Orange Book 2 Program is the proper placement for your student:
Your student may belong in our upper levels. Please take a look at our upper-level curriculums to see which concepts they are struggling with:
By the end of the PRIDE Red Book 3,
your student will read, write, and spell
words with consonant and vowel teams of:
y long i, qu, ck, tch, y long e,
ai, ay, ee, ea, ar, or, oa,
er, ur, ir, oe, ow,
ed(id), ed(d), ed(t)
cry, question, duck, witch, candy
rain, play, tree, peach, star
horn, wind, wild, mold, most
boat, monster, turkey, bird
toe, crow, planted, sailed, jumped
By the end of the PRIDE Purple Book 4,
your student will read, write, and spell
words such as the words below:
Vowel Diphthongs, 3+syllables,
suffix es, syllable c+le
food, cook, plow, valley, ouch
boil, toys, light, chief, pie, phone
bread, steak, go, me, cry, station
observation, television, cereal, gel
soup, autumn, claw, foxes, gobble
By the end of the PRIDE Blue Book 5,
your student will read, write, and spell
words such as the words below:
open syllables, vowel diphthongs,
silent letters, spelling rules,
schwa sounds, common suffixes
& prefixes
bridge, chew, driving, ponies
ceiling, reign, sleigh, winning
clue, fruit, knee, gnome
guitar, write, climb, anchor
swan, antique, bandage, vulture
dangerous, ambulance, audience
tropical, memorial, expensive
unreal, preview, reread
PRIDE Placement Resources
We always recommend placing your student somewhere in between Beginning Letters & Sounds and the Red Book Program no matter what age or grade they are. If your student has already had PRIDE or Orton-Gillingham tutoring and you believe they might be able to start in Levels 4 or 5, please look at our Scope & Sequence below to determine where you believe your student is best placed.
For a more comprehensive assessment, download the PRIDE Comprehensive Reading Assessment. Follow the directions provided. Your student should be placed in the level where you stop the assessment. With older students, you may want to continue into the next level of the assessment to check if placement is correct, or if student has a few gaps that can be addressed with our PRIDE Accelerated Review (PAR) program. The PRIDE Reading Program is available in two versions. PRIDE for Parents and Homeschoolers (single student, single level access), and PRIDE for Tutors and Teachers (multi-student, multi-level access). If you have question about your students placement, please email us at info@pridereadingprogram.com.
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