Revolutionizing Reading With The Let's Read-Reading Age Diagnostic Test.

Measuring the level of literacy has been of interest to educators for decades. Reading involves many different componentsphonemic awareness, ability to decode and construct sounds, comprehension, fluency and speed-most batteries differ in the methodology that they use and in the abilities that they assess. Some international tools - like PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement), PISA (Program for International Student Assessment, OECD) measure reading ability for children above the age of 7-8 years. This makes intervention difficult for poor readers. The Let's Read Reading Age Diagnostic Tool (LR-RADT) is based on the Let's Read program and follows the common pattern of teaching reading through phonics in most of the Montessori and preschools in India. It was developed to track the acquisition of decoding and syllabification reading skills in children as early as four years. This article is written to establish the validity and reliability of this tool as an effective and efficient test for acquisition of phonetic reading skills in Early Years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]