Intake: Reading Diagnostics and Entering Level Assessment

This page includes a reading diagnostic and a short intake assessment to gauge the learners' native language, English decoding skills, and other entry skills related to the Pathway to Literacy levels A-D. You can use these tools as supports during intake to determine what the starting points of your learners are as they enter your classroom or program.

Intake Assessment

Intake Assessment Training Video.webm

Intake Assessment Training Video 

This video will guide you through using the Intake Assessment. 

Pathway to Literacy Intake Assessment (6-23)

Intake Assessment 

The Intake Assessment is a Google Slide Deck which you go through with your learner before starting teaching. Literacy learners can vary widely in their abilities in the 4 different skill areas: oral, writing, reading and phonics. This assessment helps to determine, upon entry, what their level is in each of these skill areas, and also helps calculate an overall level. 

Intake Assessment Marking Sheet

Intake Assessment Marking Sheet 

We recommend you print off (or even laminate to reuse) this Intake Assessment Marking Sheet and have it next to you while you test the learner. It has space for notes, and space to add up the points the learner earns to determine their level. 


READING DIAGNOSTIC

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Reading Diagnostic Training Video

This video will guide you through assessing potential learners' reading levels using the multi-lingual and/or English diagnostic tools. Not all English Learners need literacy development, so it is important to check your potential learners' actual literacy levels before enrolling them in literacy classes. 

The slide deck accompanying this video is below.

Reading Diagnostic Training

Reading Diagnostic Slide Deck

This slide deck helps you practice and administer the Reading Diagnostic portion of the intake process.

Practice Samples

Reading Diagnostic Practice

Use this tool to listen to samples of students doing to the reading diagnostic.

Reading Diagnostic Marking Tool

Reading Diagnostic Marking Tool

This marking tool can be used to keep track of student's scores on the Reading Diagnostic portion of the intake process.

Access the diagnostic in various languages below:

Arabic English Reading Diagnostic .docx

Arabic

Amharic English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Amharic

Burmese English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Burmese

Chin (FALAM) English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Falam Chin

Chin (HAKHA) English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Hakha Chin

CHIN MATU.docx

Matu Chin

Chinese English Reading Diagnostic (1).pdf

Chinese (Mandarin)

Farsi English Reading Diagnostic for translation.docx

Farsi/Dari 

French English Reading Diagnostic.docx

French

HAITIANCREOLE.docx

Haitian Creole

Hindi English Reading Diagnostic.pdf

Hindi

Japanese English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Japanese

Karen

Karenni English Reading Diagnostic both language PDF.pdf

Karenni

KIBEMBE.docx

Kibembe

Kinyarwanda English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Kinyarwanda

Kiswahili English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Kiswahili

KURMANJI.docx

Kurmanji

LINGALA.docx

Lingala 

PASHTO English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Pashto

Portuguese English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Portuguese

Punjabi English Reading Diagnostic.pdf

Punjabi

Spanish English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Spanish

SOMALI.docx

Somali

Tigrinya English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Tigrinya

Turkish English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Turkish

Urdu English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Urdu

VIETNAMESE.docx

Vietnamese

Yoruba English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Yoruba

Swedish English Reading Diagnostic.docx

Swedish

Big Print ENGLISH READING DIAGNOSTIC for Data Collectors.docx

English (Large Print)