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Students in grades Kindergarten through
twelfth
Classroom teacher, reading specialist,
interventionist
Can be administered individually, some
assessments can be whole group
Some assessments in Spanish
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Used to assist the teacher in targeting
strengths and weaknesses
Used to monitor student reading
development
Most often used to identify why a student is
not being successful in reading (beginning
reading skills, fluency or comprehension)
Used to plan appropriate instruction
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Administered individually
Measures a research-based reading skill
Quick, reliable, easy to use
Provides clear and accurate individual student
information
Some are curriculum based
Specific skills, some broader screening
4 broad type: Screening, progress monitoring,
diagnostic, outcome assessments
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Phonemic awareness: the ability to focus on and
manipulate individual sounds in spoken words
Phonics: the ability to match sounds to letters and
use this knowledge in reading and spelling (also
know as the alphabetic principle)
Fluency reading text: the ability to read connected
text with speed, accuracy, and proper expression
Vocabulary: the ability to understand and use
words
Comprehension: the ability to get meaning from
text
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What?
Why?
How?
When?
What it means?
What’s next?
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Phoneme Deletion Test (p. 24)
(initial, final, first sound of a consonant
blend, embedded sound of a consonant
blend)
Phonological Segmentation Test ( p.29)
(sentences, syllables, phonemes)
Phoneme Segmentation Test
Core Phonics Survey (p. 41- 52)
Alphabet, consonant sounds, vowel sounds,
short vowels in cvc, consonant blends with
short vowels, short vowels, diagraphs and –
tch, r-controlled, long vowels, variant
vowels, low frequency vowels and
consonants, multisyllabic
- High-frequency word survey
-San Diego Quick Assessment of Reading
Ability
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Grades 2 – 6
3 passages for each grade level
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Vocabulary screening (1-8)
measures how well students know the
meaning of grade-level words they read
silently
Read a word and choose which word from
three word choices means the same
No use of context, just pure word meaning
Group or individually
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Grades 2-10
Individual or group
3 minutes
First sentence complete, every other
sentence has 7th word as a multiple choice
to complete the meaning, using context
clues
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Teaching Reading Sourcebook
What to teach?
Why to teach it?
When to teach? When to Assess and
intervene?
How? - teach/model, guided practice