Free teaching tools and guides
Practical help for the next classroom decision. Open a free tool or read a teaching guide, then choose a resource when you need the ready-to-use pages.

Free tool · Reading fluency
Score a one-minute oral reading sample with words correct, accuracy, and a short retell. No login is needed to try the tool.
Open the free scorer
Teaching guide · Reading fluency
Work through the one-minute calculation, a classroom example, and what the number can and cannot tell you.
Read the WCPM guide
Teaching guide · Decoding
Run a brief first-pass check, apply the stop rules, and turn the first pattern with two misses into a teaching point.
Read the phonics guide
Teaching guide · Math assessment
Choose a Grade 3 starting point and use the results to plan what to teach next.
Read the math guide
Teaching guide · Substitute planning
Build a plan a substitute can run when the absence was not expected, with clear timing and student directions.
Read the sub plans guide
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Assistive technology in the classroom
Start with the learning task, try one support in a real lesson, and check whether it helps.
Start with the task a student needs to do, then switch on one support and practise it in a real lesson. These built-in ChromeOS features can help a school team test what works without changing the lesson goal.
Introduce one support for one learning job at a time. This guide pairs vendor-documented Read&Write for Google Chrome tools with a three-lesson classroom rollout teachers can adapt.
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