Get Ready to Read!® Screening Tool

Use this 20-question research-based screening tool with your 4-year-old students, or recommend it to parents. The score will show if a child's pre-reading skills are weak, strong, or somewhere in between. And activities and resources to improve those skills will be provided. This tool is designed to screen a child twice during the year before kindergarten. Use the tool first in the fall one year before the child enters kindergarten, and again the next fall before kindergarten begins, to measure the child's progress. Don't use the tool more than three times in a year. It's not designed to measure small changes, and children develop new skills gradually. Mac users browsing with Netscape: click here. About Get Ready to Read!® Visit the National Center for Learning Disabilities

Developed by: Published by: Skills Kids Need to Read Three skill areas form the foundation for reading. Kids who develop strong skills in these areas have greater success learning to read... Find out more.

The Get Ready to Read!® screening tool and selected resources and activities were developed by The National Center for Learning Disabilities and published by Pearson Early Learning and the Family Education Network.

The Get Ready to Read!® screening tool and resources are meant to provide children with the opportunity to demonstrate and practice skills that contribute to early literacy. The information is not intended to diagnose learning disabilities, or to offer or replace any educational, psychological, or medical information, treatment, or professional advice. A qualified professional should be sought if a care provider or parent believes a child has some difficulties that warrant professional or medical attention.