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Magic Assessment of Decoding Skills and Fluency - Reading Game
The Magic Assessment of Decoding Skills and Fluency is a specialised diagnostic and progress-monitoring tool designed by Annemarie Roux for Yellow Tree Reading Academy. Rooted in the Science of Reading, this assessment helps teachers, therapists, and parents accurately measure learners’ decoding ability, reading fluency, and progress over time.
More than just an assessment, this tool doubles as a structured reading support program. Through a series of timed reading drills and word-decoding exercises, students practise daily to improve accuracy, speed, and automaticity—the three pillars of reading fluency. Each session provides immediate feedback and measurable growth, empowering learners to see their own progress while helping educators identify areas needing targeted intervention.
This printable reading game is ideal for classroom teachers, literacy specialists, and homeschooling parents who want an evidence-based method to assess and strengthen foundational reading skills.
- Accurately Measures Decoding Skills – Identifies how well learners connect sounds to letters and blend them into whole words.
- Tracks Reading Fluency and Progress – Provides clear data on reading rate, accuracy, and improvement over time.
- Supports Differentiated Instruction – Helps educators design personalised intervention plans based on diagnostic results.
- Motivates Learners Through Visible Progress – Students chart their own growth, fostering intrinsic motivation and reading confidence.
- Improves Accuracy and Automaticity – Structured practice helps develop fluent word recognition, freeing cognitive space for comprehension.
- Grounded in the Science of Reading – Aligns with research on decoding, fluency, and neural efficiency in reading development.
