Empower Literacy Skills
Comprehensive support for reading and writing challenges at every educational level.
Assessment
Banner Literacy uses informal evaluations, parental insights, teacher observations, and prior testing to assess your child’s literacy skills. We also examine a student’s strategy use, self-monitoring, and organizational abilities. By analyzing both academic skills and learning behaviors, we create instruction plans tailored to each student’s unique learning style. Our ongoing diagnostic teaching approach allows us to evaluate and adjust methods to ensure effective progress continuously.
Reading
We begin by assessing your child’s reading skills using informal inventories of word lists and passages to evaluate word recognition and comprehension abilities.
word recognition
Additional evaluation may include reading passages aloud and silently, using various text structures.
Text Comprehension
We assess comprehension through questions, retellings, and summaries to understand how your child processes different types of text.
Writing
We assess your child’s writing through narrative and expository samples. Our analysis covers spelling, punctuation, grammar, organization, and idea development. For beginning writers, we focus on ideas, spelling, and sentence structure. This evaluation helps us create personalized instruction plans.
Spelling
We evaluate your child’s spelling knowledge to support both reading and writing development. Through spelling tests and writing samples, we assess their understanding of the morphological and orthographic structure of words (spelling/structure), allowing us to create developmentally appropriate instruction plans.
Language
We assess both spoken and listening language skills through conversation and reading comprehension tasks to understand your child’s overall language development.
Follow-Up Assessments
After initial assessments, we analyze your child’s strategies and may conduct additional evaluations to pinpoint specific areas needing support.