Reading Doctor Online vs LEST - Letter Sound Rules Usage & Stats
Teach students to read with fun, effective, scientifically-based software!
ReadingDoctor® Online is a powerful, scientifically-based teaching tool designed to help beginning and struggling readers improve their reading skills. Ideal for K-3 students and older students with reading difficulties, it uses a proven teaching method backed by scientific research and independently conducted studies.
You can learn more about the scientific evidence supporting ReadingDoctor® here: https://www.readingdoctor.com.au/evidence-supporting-reading-doctor
Key Features:
• Strengthens crucial skills like phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge, blending, segmentation, decoding, and sight word recognition.
• Includes thousands of words, sentences, images, and audio recordings to build word knowledge and reading comprehension.
• Fully customizable to complement existing phonics programs.
• Designed by Australian speech & language pathologist Dr. Bartek Rajkowski, PhD.
ReadingDoctor® Online Teaches Students To:
• Recognize over 100 English spellings of the 44 phonemes.
• Blend, decode, and understand thousands of words with common spelling patterns.
• Recognize and understand over 200 of the most common English sight words.
Subscription Information:
• Enjoy the first two weeks free.
• An active subscription is required to access ReadingDoctor® Online.
• Log in with your account details.
• Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
• Subscriptions renew automatically; cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
Note: Currently features an Australian accent. US and UK accents are coming soon!
We have spent many years developing this software and we sincerely hope it becomes your favourite teaching tool :)
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The Letter Sound Test (LeST) tests a person’s ability to sound out single letters and letter combinations.
- Run a LeST test session in under 10 minutes.
- Automated percentile and z-score calculations for graphemes.
- Practice marking before you buy.
- Hear correct pronunciations of all the letter-sound combinations before you buy.
More about the LeST:
In order to be able to sound out words, we need to know which sound a letter or letter combination corresponds to.
The LeST evaluates which letter(s) a person can sound out in isolation (i.e., not in the context of a word or nonword).
The LeST is a simple reading aloud task and contains 51 graphemes (single letters and letter combinations). This test can be administered to individual students.
At the end of the test, the tester gets an overview of the grapheme a reader can sound out in isolation. The tester may then decide to train the letter-sound-correspondences for the letters that the reader could not sound out correctly.
This app has been developed from the LeST literacy assessment tool created by Macquarie University Centre for Reading.
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Reading Doctor Online VS. 
LEST - Letter Sound RulesJanuary 1, 2025