Welcome to the Red Squirrel Phonics Assessment Kit. We recognise that assessment is a key part of tracking students’ competence and progress in their reading journey. Assessment can take many forms and our Kit has a range of tools that assess four different areas. The Kit is designed so that each assessment is downloaded individually, as and when it is required. 

The Kit contains the following four assessments. Download the instruction sheet for more information on the assessments and when and how to use them.

• Screening Tests – quickly screen students to place them at the correct stage of the Red Squirrel Phonics series.
• Phonics Assessment – comprehensive tests to assess students’ understanding of new phonemes and graphemes, ability to segment and blend decodable words and to read tricky words.
• Assessment of Reading Accuracy – unseen texts to assess students’ reading accuracy.
• Comprehension Assessment – questions on the unseen texts.

Click the images below to go to the assessment that you wish to download and use.