Remedial Checks
Free home checks that follow DepEd’s CRLA and Phil-IRI steps for reading, and the Rapid Math Assessment task areas for maths.
Remedial assessment
Find out exactly where a struggling reader or maths learner is, the way Philippine public schools do it. These home checks follow the structure of DepEd’s CRLA, Phil-IRI and Rapid Mathematics Assessment, with my own passages and questions. For children in Thai schools, there is also a Thai reading check modelled on Thailand’s RT.
Sit with the child, one to one, for about 15–20 minutes. Grades 1–3 follow the CRLA steps: letter sounds, then words or sentences. Grades 4–6 follow the Phil-IRI steps: a silent screening test, then oral reading of graded passages if needed.
For Grades 1–3. The child answers 4 questions in each task area used by DepEd’s Rapid Mathematics Assessment: numbers, fractions, adding, taking away, shapes, patterns, time, length and mass (plus multiplication and money from Grade 2). A task counts as passed at 3 of 4 correct (75%). For Grades 4–6, use the maths skills check.
For children who learn to read in Thai, Prathom 1 to 6. Prathom 1 follows the two parts of Thailand’s RT reading test: reading aloud (20 words and a short text) and reading for meaning (words, sentences and a short story), 100 points in all. Prathom 2–6 read one graded passage aloud and answer 5 questions. The adult who listens should read Thai; English meanings are shown in small print.
These are informal home checks modelled on DepEd’s assessment structure (CRLA, Phil-IRI as revised in DepEd Order No. 14, s. 2018, and the Rapid Mathematics Assessment). They are not official DepEd results. Your child’s school gives the official assessment at the start and end of the school year. The Thai reading check follows the parts and levels of the RT that Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC, สพฐ.) gives in Prathom 1; it is not an official RT result either.
Guides to the 2026 reading and maths assessments
📏 Phil-IRI 2026
The Group Screening Test, oral reading, and the Independent, Instructional and Frustration levels.
🔤 CRLA 2026
The Grades 1–3 reading assessment, languages after the Mother Tongue change, and the five profiles.
🔢 Rapid Math Assessment 2026
The task areas, the five proficiency levels and the 75% task pass mark.
🇹🇭 Thai Reading Test (RT)
Thailand’s Prathom 1 reading test: the two parts, the 100-point score and the four levels.
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