Free Phonics Test
Welcome to the ScholarSkills 5 Minute Phonics Reading Test
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This test should take no longer than 5 minutes; however, if your child needs more than 5 minutes and the recording time ends, then simply start a new 5 minute recording and continue the test.
Encourage students to try to pronounce each word. However, if the student becomes frustrated at any point or mispronounces 3-5 words in a row, then stop the test and send whatever results were recorded.
Please print these instructions, or leave them open on a device screen so that your child can take the test correctly.
If your child is going to view the test online, then make sure that he or she has access to a phone to record answers.
This test should take no longer than 5 minutes; however, if your child needs more than 5 minutes and the recording time ends, then simply start a new 5 minute recording and continue the test.
Encourage students to try to pronounce each word. However, if the student becomes frustrated at any point or mispronounces 3-5 words in a row, then stop the test and send whatever results were recorded.
Take the Free Five Minutes Phonics Test
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Once you have finished the test, simply enter the information that is required and press send. Your results will be returned to you by email.
Scroll down the page to take the test. The recorder will keep going until you scroll back up to the top and click stop.
Once you have finished the test, simply enter the information that is required and press send. Your results will be returned to you by email.
The ScholarSkills 15 Minute Phonics Test
1. Please read the short vowel sounds: a e i o u
Please read the following words:
2. Pat, pet, pit, pot, putt, asp, apt, else, oft, Uz, ilk, hut, hot, it, bit, bot, bought, caught, rot, rut, dot, dab, dad, kit, lit, lip, art, mart, max, axe, vac, sac, tax, jax, lax, quack, fax, gap, gem, sick, wiz, yup, egg, elm, ide, ink, just
3. quake, gait, hale, scrape, stage, weigh, height, freight, sleigh, vein, veil, heir, chaise, phrase, maze, pare, lei, deign, reign, bale, waive, sheik
4. Gene, Jean, Jenny, scene, mere, tier, siege, bleak, crease, poppy, puppy, fussy, mien, peal, lien, frieze, peat, peek, pier, Debbie
5. grime, thrive, strive, swipe, tribe, bribe, slight, flight, thigh, smile, chive, spire, prize, splice, lyme, mime, mite, wile, while
6. swore, chore, smoke, stroke, gloat, cloak, bloke, ore, roe, whole
7. plume, flume, flute, chute, prude, juke, dune, hue, flue, flu, feud, mew, threw, view, clew
8. brunch, clinging, cringing, crutch, wreck, reek, dredge, Gary
9. dwindle, shrank, shrub, skiing, scrum, precious, fusion, leisure
10. limb, debt, thrash, thresh, thrush, ghastly, psyche, chorus 11. crike
Pseudo Word List: Please read each word from left to right line by line.
ab dub vuff kat neff biss vot fiss vass zick lut eff eb vog eg vod dod op jish ep liss tass yat vack hig kam phun gob jan taff ack jeck zess tem lud fiff zim hab kab thon om kem kesh yim fud chid desh vep tash phum hib quom tam ub ish og pab veck ved meck choss kiff zoss vop nuck bick fep hess yem seg jick jub pib lat mub vin mep diff jed tib peb foff duss jeg phid tid mip duff yick nim yud gick phad dag uck bot zam ruff jid lys
Please read the following sentences:
1. I kept my ears peeled to hear the bells peal.
2. It is a great feat to stand on your feet and never take a seat.
3. The knight was bright to fight at night with all his might.
4. This fine line of twine is mine.
5. Mitch itched and twitched.
6. Let’s eat some food soon at noon with a big spoon.
7. He took a good book to rest in the nook, but he shook when he saw the crook.
8. Please wait on the queue until you get a cue that your turn is due.
9. It is no use to muse over news about the mews.
10. Don’t be a brute or a mute, play the lute or the flute.
The test is finished. Please scroll back up to the orange microphone. Press stop. Enter your child's name and your email address. Then press send.
1. Please read the short vowel sounds: a e i o u
Please read the following words:
2. Pat, pet, pit, pot, putt, asp, apt, else, oft, Uz, ilk, hut, hot, it, bit, bot, bought, caught, rot, rut, dot, dab, dad, kit, lit, lip, art, mart, max, axe, vac, sac, tax, jax, lax, quack, fax, gap, gem, sick, wiz, yup, egg, elm, ide, ink, just
3. quake, gait, hale, scrape, stage, weigh, height, freight, sleigh, vein, veil, heir, chaise, phrase, maze, pare, lei, deign, reign, bale, waive, sheik
4. Gene, Jean, Jenny, scene, mere, tier, siege, bleak, crease, poppy, puppy, fussy, mien, peal, lien, frieze, peat, peek, pier, Debbie
5. grime, thrive, strive, swipe, tribe, bribe, slight, flight, thigh, smile, chive, spire, prize, splice, lyme, mime, mite, wile, while
6. swore, chore, smoke, stroke, gloat, cloak, bloke, ore, roe, whole
7. plume, flume, flute, chute, prude, juke, dune, hue, flue, flu, feud, mew, threw, view, clew
8. brunch, clinging, cringing, crutch, wreck, reek, dredge, Gary
9. dwindle, shrank, shrub, skiing, scrum, precious, fusion, leisure
10. limb, debt, thrash, thresh, thrush, ghastly, psyche, chorus 11. crike
Pseudo Word List: Please read each word from left to right line by line.
ab dub vuff kat neff biss vot fiss vass zick lut eff eb vog eg vod dod op jish ep liss tass yat vack hig kam phun gob jan taff ack jeck zess tem lud fiff zim hab kab thon om kem kesh yim fud chid desh vep tash phum hib quom tam ub ish og pab veck ved meck choss kiff zoss vop nuck bick fep hess yem seg jick jub pib lat mub vin mep diff jed tib peb foff duss jeg phid tid mip duff yick nim yud gick phad dag uck bot zam ruff jid lys
Please read the following sentences:
1. I kept my ears peeled to hear the bells peal.
2. It is a great feat to stand on your feet and never take a seat.
3. The knight was bright to fight at night with all his might.
4. This fine line of twine is mine.
5. Mitch itched and twitched.
6. Let’s eat some food soon at noon with a big spoon.
7. He took a good book to rest in the nook, but he shook when he saw the crook.
8. Please wait on the queue until you get a cue that your turn is due.
9. It is no use to muse over news about the mews.
10. Don’t be a brute or a mute, play the lute or the flute.
The test is finished. Please scroll back up to the orange microphone. Press stop. Enter your child's name and your email address. Then press send.
