Reading Assessments

Question 1

How would you assess an Emergent Reader’s (K-1st) Concepts of Print knowledge?

Answer 1

Marie Clay’s Concepts About Print (CAP) Assessment

Question 2

What does Marie Clay’s Concepts About Print (CAP) Assessment seek to assess?

Answer 2

An Emergent Readers familiarity with english writing conventions. (left to right reading; front/back of cover of book; understanding spaces serve a purpose; distinguish upper case and lower case; recognize print contains information; etc)

Question 3

Phonics

Answer 3

The understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (the smallest sounds in a language) and graphemes (letters or strings of letters representing a sound)

Question 4

How would you assess the sound decoding abilities of a student?

Answer 4

A Phonics Inventory, like the Shefelbine-BPST 2 or the Fry Phonics Pattern Diagnostic Test

Question 5

What does the Sheflebine-BPST 2 or Fry Phonics Pattern Diagnostic Test Assess?

Answer 5

There are Phonics Inventories, so they assess the decoding abilities of a student.

Question 6

How are the Sheflebine-BPST 2 or Fry Phonics Pattern Diagnostic Test carried out?

Answer 6

Since they are Phonics Inventories, the Teacher will present the student with BPST (Basic Phonics Skill Test) sheet of paper and ask the student to say the sound of each letter or blend of letters.

Question 7

How does a Phonemic Awareness Assessment try to Assess?

Answer 7

K-1st Students ability to segment (break apart) 22 common words into component phonemes.

Question 8

What is an example of a Phonemic Awareness Assessment?

Answer 8

Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation.

Question 9

Yopp-Singer Test of ______ ______ assesses what?

Answer 9

Phoneme Segmentation, which asssess phoneme awareness in K-1st

Question 10

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Answer 10

The understanding that the sounds of a spoken language are combined to make words, and that words can be segmented into their component sounds (phonemes).

The understanding that words(morphemes) are composed of smaller sound units (phonemes)

Question 11

How does Phonemic Awareness differ from phonics?

Answer 11

Phonemic awareness is text independent, understanding a fact of language that says words are composed from an inventory of phonemes while phonics is understanding that those phonemes can be represented by graphemes (symbols or strings of symbols) in a predictable, desipherable way.

Question 12

Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation is carried out by…

Answer 12

the teacher presenting common words to k-1st graders and asking the student’s to break them up into component phonemes (segment)

Question 13

What is an assessment used to evaluate Phonological Awareness?

Answer 13

Rosner’s Test of Auditory Skills (TAAS)

Question 14

What is the Rosner’s Test of Auditory Skills evaluating and how does it do so?

Answer 14

The students ability to identify sounds in spoken words. (Phonological Awareness)

The student (usually in kindergarten) is asked to say a compound word with two syllables (LapTop, BeachBall, CowBoy…) and then say it again with one of the syllables deleted

“DogHouse”— Say it again without House— “Dog”

Test understanding of sound deletion.

Question 15

What is a compound word?

Answer 15

A word composed of two other independent words that creates a new meaning (SunFlower, BeachBall, CowBoy, DogHouse, FishHook)

Question 16

What does Fry’s Oral Reading Assessment Evaluate?

Answer 16

Reading Fluency and Comprehension. (Does the student need further instruction in word decoding?)

Question 17

How can you evaluate a student’s Reading Fluency and Comprehension?

Answer 17

Fry’s Oral Reading Assessment.

Question 18

How is Fry’s Oral Reading Assessment carried out and what will be determined?

Answer 18

One-on-One, a student will be asked to read two or three grade appropriate passages aloud for one minute increments. Teacher will note how many words were read as well as how many errors were made. The mean of both words read and errors made will be deteremines, with the average errors subtracted from the average words read. This will give you the Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM)

Question 19

An Oral Reading Assessment, or Oral Fluency Assessment– such as Fry’s– can give a good evaluation of…

Answer 19

Where or not further instuction is needed in decoding words, as well as
Accuracy
reading rate
Reading Level
Comprehension level

Question 20

What does WCPM stand for and how can it be determined?

Answer 20

Words Correct Per Minute, as is determined by an Oral Fluency Assessment, such as Fry’s

Question 21

What can you use WCPM for?

Answer 21

Graph over time to gauge improvement or compare against published averages of comperable grade levels.

Question 22

What is a Reading Ability Assessment and what does it test?

Answer 22

San Diego Quick and 40L Quick Screen Reading Grade Level test. Measures the ability of a student to recognize a word in and out of context. (Word recognition and Reading Ability level)

Question 23

What is a Spelling Inventory?

Answer 23

Francine Johnston’s Primary and Elementary Spelling Inventories.

Question 24

What can you do with Francine Johnston’s Primary and Elementary Spelling Inventories?

Answer 24

Place Student in developmental Spelling Stages.