ELLA: Evaluation of Literacy and Language Ability

Six literacy skills.
Thirty mini-tests.
The report is
drafted in 90
seconds.

ELLA screens phonological awareness, phonics, word reading, spelling, language comprehension, and fluency. The clinician-ready report and the intervention plan generate in under a minute. You review, sign, send. Built for practitioners, schools, and learning centers.

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K–12 coverage

ELLA Report

DYSLEXIA PROFILE

Hazel B. · Grade 3 · Age 9

Reading Performance

Reading Comprehension100 %
Sight Words K–3100%
Phonics & Decoding81%
Reading Fluency (WCPM)53%
Multi-syllabic Words7%
Syllable Segmentation0%

Clinical pattern: Strong comprehension with weak decoding. Recommend structured literacy, 2–3 sessions per week, 12–18 months.

60%

Less time on report writing

30

Mini-tests, six categories

90s

From screener to full report

K-12

Grade-leveled coverage

What changes

When you run ELLA on a learner this week

Three things happen the same session. Not next week. Not after a follow-up meeting.

01

A full skill profile in 25–40 minutes

Six categories, thirty mini-tests, real-time scoring. Audio prompts run the screener. You observe and note. No marking sheets afterwards.

02

The report is drafted for you

Strengths, gaps, ranked tests, clinical interpretation, grade-level benchmarks. Every section a parent or school asks for, drafted in the same session. You review, edit if needed, sign.

03

Intervention is in the report

ELLA names the patterns (Magic E, vowel teams, syllable segmentation), suggests the approach (Orton-Gillingham, structured literacy), and sets short and long-term targets.

The screening you do now

Your weekend has a literacy report in it

You administer a battery of tests. You score them by hand. You sit with the data over the weekend, draft the report, send it Monday. Two parents are still waiting. The next batch is already booked.

Or you use a screener that gives you a score and a percentile, but no clinical interpretation, no intervention plan, and no language a parent will actually read.

ELLA is what happens when the screener, the report, and the plan live in one tool.

The Learning Center of America signed and sent the report the same day.

Manual workflow

With ELLA

Score by hand, 60–90 min

Auto-scored in real time

Draft report, 2–3 hours

Report in 90 seconds

Look up grade-level norms

Norms built in, K–12

Write intervention plan separately

Plan included with targets

Parent version takes more time

Parent-ready language built in

What ELLA measures

Six skills. Aligned to the science of reading.

The five Reading Rope strands plus rapid naming. Mini-tests are grade-leveled where it matters and skill-leveled where it doesn’t.

Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

7 mini-tests

Rhyme identification, rhyme generation, beginning, middle and ending sounds, syllable blending, syllable segmentation. The foundation for everything downstream

Phonics & Decoding

11 mini-tests

Letters and sounds, short and long vowels, blends, digraphs, diphthongs, Magic E, Bossy R, vowel teams, consonant-LE. The decoding engine.

Word Reading

7 mini-tests

Sight words K to 3, compound words, multi-syllabic words, and pseudowords. Tells you whether decoding is automatic or still effortful.

Encoding & Spelling

Grade K–12

Orthographic mapping across grade levels. ELLA finds the spelling grade the learner is actually working at, not the one on the timetable.

Language Comprehension

Grade K–12

Listening comprehension and reading comprehension at grade level. The other half of Scarborough’s rope, screened in the same session.

Reading Fluency + RAN

5 mini-tests

Oral reading passages, words correct per minute, and rapid automatized naming of objects, colors, letters and digits. The processing speed signal.

A real report

Hazel, Grade 3, 9 years old

Strong reasoning. Perfect comprehension. And a decoding pattern that needs a name.

Hazel B.

Grade 3 · Age 9 · Screened Feb 2026

Reading Comprehension100 %
Listening Comprehension100%
Sight Words K–3100%
Phonics & Decoding81%
Reading Fluency (Grade 3)53 WCPM
Multi-syllabic Words0%
Syllable Segmentation0%

Spelling (functioning at)

Grade 1

Hazel’s ELLA results showed perfect sight word recognition across K through Grade 3, 100% on reading comprehension, 100% on listening comprehension. Strong reasoning. Strong vocabulary. Solid letter-sound knowledge.

And syllable segmentation at 0%. Multi-syllabic decoding at 7%. Spelling at Grade 1 level (currently 2 years below grade). Fluency at 53 WCPM against a Grade 3 expectation of 90 or above.

The pattern is dyslexia. Strong comprehension paired with weak decoding. ELLA flagged it, named the cognitive systems behind it (Broca’s area, working memory, executive functioning), and generated the 12 to 18 month intervention plan with both short-term and long-term targets.

The Learning Center of America signed and sent the report the same day.

ELLA gave us in 90 seconds what would have taken three hours. The report had everything we needed to walk a parent through a dyslexia profile and start an Orton-Gillingham plan that afternoon.

Elizabeth Hines, The Learning Center of America

Download Hazel’s full report
How it works

Three steps. One session.

From learner intake to a clinician-ready report, in less than an hour.

1

Add the learner

Name, grade, country. Choose which screener mini-tests to run, or take the recommended battery for the age and grade.

~15 seconds

2

Run the mini-tests

Audio prompts run the screener. You observe and note. Adaptive scoring stops sections that are clearly mastered, focuses on the gaps.

25–40 minutes

3

Get the report

Skill profile, ranked tests, clinical interpretation, intervention plan, accommodations, expected outcomes. Parent-ready and school-ready.

~90 seconds

Built for clinical practice

Science of Reading aligned

GDPR compliant

FERPA aligne

HIPAA-aligned data handling

POPIA aware

WCAG 2.2 AA

Questions practitioners ask

Before you sign up

No. ELLA is an educational screener. It identifies risk patterns and skill gaps, and recommends next steps. Formal diagnosis requires the standardized procedures of your jurisdiction (educational psychology assessment in the UK, comprehensive evaluation in the US, and so on). ELLA tells you who needs the next step and what that step looks like, so you can refer faster and intervene earlier.

Educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, reading specialists, learning centers, MTSS coordinators, SENCOs, school psychologists, private tutors, and homeschool assessors. Anywhere literacy screening happens, ELLA fits the workflow.

25 to 40 minutes for the screener itself, depending on age and which mini-tests you run. The report generates in about 90 seconds after the last item. Compared to a manual scoring and write-up workflow, you save roughly 60% of the time per learner.

Yes. ELLA covers the five Reading Rope strands (phonological awareness, decoding, sight recognition, vocabulary, comprehension) and adds rapid automatized naming for processing speed. The intervention recommendations reference Orton-Gillingham and structured literacy methods. The science is what shapes the test selection and the report logic.

Yes. The free pilot covers three learners with full access to the screener, the report, and the intervention plan. No card. No commitment. If it fits your practice after three learners, you move to a paid plan. If it doesn’t, you keep the reports you generated.

Success Stories

What our users say

★★★★★

As a school board member, I am always looking for effective solutions to support our students’ diverse learning needs. My Memory Mentor has proven to be an exceptional resource in this regard. Their early screening tools are critical in identifying learning challenges before they become significant barriers to success. The comprehensive assessments and personalized action plans they provide ensure that our schools can offer targeted and effective support to each student. The impact of their quality remediation services is evident in the improved outcomes and confidence of our students. My Memory Mentor is a valuable asset to our education system.

Lisa R.

School Board Member’s Review of MyMemoryMentor

★★★★★

ELLA has revolutionized how we identify and support struggling readers in our school. The online platform is easy for teachers to use, and the data-driven insights allow us to tailor our instruction to meet each student’s specific needs. We’ve seen a marked improvement in our students’ reading abilities thanks to ELLA!

Katherine H.

Private Tutor & Learning Specialist

★★★★★

As a learning specialist, I’ve struggled to find a comprehensive yet user-friendly tool to assess literacy skills. ELLA has been a game-changer for my practice. It’s quick, accurate, and the detailed reports provide invaluable insights for creating targeted interventions. My students have shown significant progress since I started using ELLA as a baseline tool for identifying specific gaps and retesting them after focused remediation.

Sarah C.

Literacy Specialist

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Literacy Assessment – ELLA

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  • Full report generation and intervention plans
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