Decoding for Success

There are so many types of reading assessments you can use. Wouldn’t it be great if every student came to you with a breakdown of what they were able to do and what they struggled with?  Wouldn’t your life be so much easier if you knew that every student knew all the spelling rules or every letter sound?  As a teacher you would be able to skip to the juicy stuff.  You would be able to move forward and not reteach last year’s curriculum.  But classroom life is not like that.  For the most part ev