I think phonics/word recognition progress monitoring needs to have different words each time. Some of my EL students keep missing the same words because they don't know what the word means. However, many times they can read the words.

A few of the words they get stuck on
pit (peach pit), mug, toss, drain They can read them but they don't know what they mean.

I feel like that if they were given different words with the same rime, we would know if it was vocabulary or phonics.

I decided to watch one of my students take the test to see what they were not making progress but are readers.

I have added these words to my instruction, but I feel like I am teaching to the test.