Schonell Reading Test
The child should read the words left to right. When a word that gets a little difficult, ask
the child to sound it out. If the child can't say what the word is, then go on to the next
one.
The person supervising the test will give one mark for each word correctly pronounced even if the reader self corrects. The supervisor will not suggest corrections. No
prompting. No hurrying. If the reader mis-pronounces slightly as in postage with a short
'o', the first time, then ask for the word again, marking it correct if the reader has self
corrected. Otherwise, do not ask for a word to be re-read.
If you do not give away the pronunciation of words that the reader does not know, then
this same test may be used again at a later date to assess progress as a result of a teaching
programme.
tree
book
playing
little
school
bun
milk
sit
flower
egg
frog
road
clock
think
dream
train
summer
downstairs
light
people
biscuit
picture
something
shepherd
thirsty
postage
ceiling
crowd
island
appeared
sandwich
saucer
gnome
beginning
angel
canary
attractive
smolder
diseased
imagine
applaud
university
nephew
disposal
orchestra
gradually
nourished
knowledge
audience
choir
siege
situated
intercede
recent
physics
fascinate
plausible
campaign
forfeit
prophecy
colonel
classification
conscience
soloist
genuine
heroic
systematic
institution
pneumonia
slovenly
pivot
preliminary
antique
scintillate
terrestrial
susceptible
satirical
belligerent
enigma
sabre
adamant
oblivion
beguile
sepulchre
statistics
evangelical
preferential
miscellaneous
grotesque
homonym
procrastinate
ineradicable
fictitious
tyrannical
judicature
rescind
metamorphosis
somnambulist
bibliography
idiosyncrasy
Reading age = ( (Number of words correct) / 10 ) + 5