🚂 Get on Track! Download the Free Reading Railroad Phonics Assessment
Every child's reading journey is unique. Begin with the FREE Reading Skills Assessment to identify your learner's current skills. Then use the Phonics Mastery Tracker to monitor progress as you explore the four Reading Railroad Learning Tracksâ„¢ below. Each track is filled with printable, research-based resources designed to help children become confident, successful readers.
Every reader has a starting point—but guessing can slow progress and lead to frustration.
This FREE assessment helps parents and teachers quickly identify a reader’s current phonics skills so they can stop guessing and start teaching in the right order with confidence using the The Reading Railroad Learning Tracks™
Once you've identified where your reader is on their journey, the next step is tracking growth and teaching the right skills in the right order.
The Reading Railroad was created to help teachers and families move forward with confidence by providing a clear roadmap for reading success.
🚂 Track 1: Foundational Phonics (PreK–Early 1st Grade)
Track 1 of The Reading Railroad Learning Tracksâ„¢ builds the foundation for reading with alphabet activities, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, short vowels, CVC words, high-frequency words, blends, digraphs, and decodable readers. Perfect for Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten.
🚂 Track 2: Developing Phonics (Mid. 1st–2nd Grade)
Build stronger decoding skills with long vowels, Silent E, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, homophones, and advanced high-frequency words. These phonics activities, decodable readers, and literacy centers are ideal for 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, homeschool, RTI, and more.
🚂 Track 3: Advanced Phonics (2nd - 3rd Grade)
Help readers decode longer, more challenging words with syllable types, prefixes, suffixes, morphology, contractions, compound words, soft C and soft G, irregular spelling patterns, and multisyllabic word activities. Great for 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, homeschool, and intervention.
🚂 Track 4: Fluency & Comprehension (2nd–4th Grade)
Bring every reading skill together with fluency passages, decodable readers, repeated reading, prosody, expression, vocabulary, fiction and nonfiction comprehension, retelling, and summarizing. Designed for 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, homeschool, literacy centers, and intervention.
Bring every reading skill together with fluency passages, decodable readers, repeated reading, prosody, expression, vocabulary, fiction and fiction / nonfiction comprehension, retelling, and summarizing. Designed for 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, homeschool, literacy centers, and intervention.
Reading growth doesn't happen overnight.
The Reading Railroadâ„¢ exists to help teachers and families navigate the journey one step at a time with practical resources, clear progress monitoring, and a roadmap for continued success.
