Competency 2 Reading Assessment

Question 1

Graphophonemic errors

Answer 1

Symbols and sounds

• an error related to the sound - symbol relationships for English
  eg. Feather for father

a child who is doing this is relying too much on phonics to read words or reading a passage that is too difficult

Question 2

semantic errors

Answer 2

meaning errors

ex. reading dad for father
- the student has relied too much on semantic cueing system – hasn’t used graphophoneic clues
- the child who repeatedly does this understands what’s being read but needs to be taught to use phonics skills to make sure every word being read makes sense from a graphophonemic sndpoing

Question 3

syntactic errors

Answer 3

syntax = the way words are placed in order in sentences
syntactic errors ex: reading into for through
- syntactic errors make sense in that the error is the sam part of speech as the correct word

Question 4

Independent reading level

Answer 4

the highest grade level passage for which the student reads aloud 95% of the words correctly and answers 90% or more of the comp questions correctly

Question 5

Instructional reading level

Answer 5

• material at this level can be read by the student with help from the teacher
• ## the highest passage for which the student reads aloud 90% or more of the words correctly and answers at least 60% of the comp questions correctly

Question 6

Frustration reading level

Answer 6

cannot be read or understood by the child with help BUT the child can understand it if it is read aloud to them

Question 7

*To determine instructional and independent reading levels you must know both

Answer 7

• to percentage of words that child read aloud correctly

- the percentage of comprehension questions the child correctly answered